Economic & Business Development

A Company That Helps You Find Job

Read the story in The Atlantic here. Bitwise hosted a conference for International Women’s Day Courtesy of Bitwise The tech-training and incubator company Bitwise, based in Fresno in California’s agricultural Central Valley, has been an important test case for the proposition that new, valuable, job-creating and wealth-expanding businesses can arise anywhere, not just in the few […]

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Bitwise Goes Big

Fresno tech startup, Bitwise gets $27 million in funding to expand its operations.

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‘Let’s Care About Someone Who Does Not Belong to Our Tribe’

The old Hotel Virginia in downtown Fresno, latest site of expansion by the tech incubator-and-training firm called Bitwise Industries. (Historic Fresno) We could use a little positive news at the moment, right? Here you go: Over the past three years we’re written a lot about Fresno in general, one of the unglamorous cities of California’s Central […]

Arts

All Progress Is Local:

New Year's Notes from Around the Country

Economic & Business Development

What the Renewable-Energy Economy Looks Like

Another gigantic turbine blade is delivered in Spearville, Kansas Nicolas Pollock / The Atlantic At its peak, nearly one century ago in 1920, the coal-mining industry employed nearly 800,000 people in the United States. Decade by decade, as America’s population has swelled and its economy has grown, and as total coal output as also increased, employment […]

Reports From America

Refugees, Immigrants, and the Battle Over Who Is American

Sisters originally from Darfur, resettled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The young lady on the left was a proud member of public high school ROTC. Deborah Fallows / The Atlantic Deb Fallows has a new post up, about what’s actually involved in settling immigrants from Syria—or Somalia or Congo or Bhutan—in the American cities that have taken […]

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The Generational Difference in Optimism: A Video Look

Older People Moan, Younger People Hope

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Is America in a Boiling Fury About Immigration?

Not the America I Have Seen

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And Now for Something Saner and More Positive:

Fresno, Erie

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From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between

Civic Updates

Arts

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.

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Wondering Why We Like Fresno?

Some people are smug about the coolness of New York or San Francisco. Those places are nice, but Jim Fallows much prefers "the kick-ass spirit" of Fresno.

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Why an F-16 Hit a Cessna, and Some More-Upbeat Updates

Sobering news from the NTSB, but encouraging news from Maine to California

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The Battle for Downtown, From Canada to the Carolinas

"It is strange, but true." What one reader says about Raleigh, North Carolina, applies many other places as well.

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An Incredible Time-Capsule View of One Downtown’s Development

Can tearing up a noted artistic zone be a path to civic success? City leaders say yes, while some of their citizens say no.

Economic & Business Development

Cars, Pedestrians, and the Struggle for the Future of Downtowns

Plus: how much is any discussion of "downtown" a coded talk about race?