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Town: Kentucky

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People planting a tree.
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  • Trees

Start Planting Trees

  • James Fallows
  • October 13, 2019
Recently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at the local level and that might have cumulatively very important effect.…
Barn at the Deerwood Ranch wild horse refugee, outside Laramie, Wyoming. (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

All Progress Is Local: New Year’s Notes From Around the Country

  • James Fallows
  • January 1, 2017
New Year's Notes from Around the Country
The lab floor at FirstBuild in Louisville, Kentucky, where a big corporation is trying to harness the spirit of the startup Maker Movement to create better products, companies, and jobs.
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  • Economic Development

Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution

  • James Fallows
  • June 1, 2016
Just like the internet before it, the Maker Movement is revolutionizing manufacturing, with implications for startups and jobs.
Louisville's skyline from the river (Wikimedia Commons)
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  • Economic Development

Fresno to South Bend to Louisville: The Elusive Elements of Civic Success

  • James Fallows
  • May 5, 2015
More cities, more assessments of what works, and why.

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