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Town: Minnesota

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Bent Paddle’s newly distanced outdoor seating.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

What happens to small companies now?

  • James Fallows
  • July 31, 2020
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Postcard of the old Clyde Iron Works in its prime, via Perfect Duluth Day.
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  • Economic Development

Paradise Duluth

  • James Fallows
  • April 9, 2016
As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups like craft breweries (along with tech incubators, arts companies, manufacturing “maker…
Getting a 22-ounce bomber filled with Wren House IPA, brewed in Phoenix, at Flowers Craft Beer & Wine in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row district two days ago.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life, in More Ways Than One

  • James Fallows
  • April 7, 2016
Thanks to my Atlantic colleague Kathy Gilsinan for the reminder of why today is different from all other days: It’s National Beer Day! Congratulations to beer. Last week I did an item about the reasons…
Bryon Tonnis, Karen Tonnis, Laura Mullen, and Colin Mullen, the founders of Bent Paddle Brewing company in Duluth, Minnesota. Their company’s story illustrates the economic patterns that Jeff Alworth is describing.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

Craft Breweries: No, I’m Not Kidding, They Actually Matter in Civic Development

  • James Fallows
  • March 31, 2016
If you’re going to subscribe to only one magazine — well, really you should be subscribing to more! But you could start with The Atlantic, and then move on to include, as…
Downtown Fresno mural
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  • Economic Development

From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between

  • James Fallows
  • March 30, 2016
Here are some generally positive developments from places we’ve visited in our travels. Fresno: This evening Fresno, California, held its big “State of Downtown” event. You can see the details here.…
Illustration by Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay.
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  • Civic Life

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

  • James Fallows
  • February 22, 2016
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.
One of the founders of the successful and stylish Loll furniture company, at the the headquarters in Duluth. The company’s story is one I describe in the magazine article and talked about today on CNN.
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  • Economic Development

Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Another Traveler’s Views

  • James Fallows
  • February 21, 2016
This morning I was on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS program on CNN, talking about the project behind my current Atlantic cover story. A YouTube version of the full show is here; a one-minute out-take, in which…
Monument to the three victims of a lynch mob, in downtown Duluth.
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  • Civic Life

Reparations, from Minnesota to Mississippi

  • James Fallows
  • June 25, 2014
The regional differences, and similarities, in the long struggle to come to terms with racial injustice in the United States.
A mid-inning conference by the visiting Eau Claire Express.
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  • Civic Life

Americana: Wade Stadium, Home of the Huskies

  • James Fallows
  • June 11, 2014
An evening in the ballpark, a look into the sports-in-America beat.
Downtown Greer, South Carolina, a rapidly growing small town between Greenville and Spartanburg.
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  • Civic Life

The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road

  • James Fallows
  • March 24, 2014
Are people in smaller towns "nicer" than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better.

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