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Home California Riverside

Town: Riverside

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Man riding bike with his arm in the air.
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  • Health & Well-Being

A Good Start: Bobby’s Story

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 18, 2016
One of my favorite features of our American Futures project is the occasional serendipity of crossing the path of some surprising, remarkable person. Like Jerrie Mock, the Columbus, Ohio, housewife who was the…
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.
Scene from Mojave Trails National Monument, one of three new protected areas President Obama created today (Jack Thompson for the Wildlands Conservancy)
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  • Travel

Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!

  • James Fallows
  • February 12, 2016
Often it seems that modern presidents can't do anything — except wage war. Here's a heartening exception.
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  • Aviation

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

  • James Fallows
  • July 22, 2015
Sobering news from the NTSB, but encouraging news from Maine to California
Students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science doing a historical re-enactment in the town cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi, in 2014.
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  • Civic Life

American Futures Updates, from MS to AZ to CA

  • James Fallows
  • May 28, 2015
NPR conveys the sound of an innovative school in Mississippi, plus other news from the road
The Latino-themed shops that characterize the current Fulton Street mall in Fresno (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

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

  • James Fallows
  • May 8, 2015
Plus: how much is any discussion of "downtown" a coded talk about race?
Highly glamorized statue of Eliza Tibbets (see real photo, below), in the downtown mall of the city she helped create. (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

California’s Improbable Navel-Orange Queen

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 8, 2015
Eliza Tibbets was a suffragist, abolitionist, and spiritualist—and the mother of California's orange industry.
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

‘Generation Now’—What People Do, When There Seems to Be Nothing to Do

  • James Fallows
  • April 28, 2015
In the next few installments I will be talking about two cities in inland Southern California that have some things in common but have headed in very different directions, and…

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