Citizens of Galesburg, IL, are trying to save their public indoor pool and create a new activity complex. City council is sympathetic, but there's just one problem: money.
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This week in High Value, Stark shares a secret with Hjerne and Nair that could spell ruin for one of the town’s residents.
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A small town’s planning commission clashes over a controversial zoning request. The first chapter of this fictional series reveals the drama that can result from local decision-making.
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The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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This small town in Maine is hoping to breathe life back into its Main Street…but is looking for solutions in all the wrong places.
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A question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
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We live in a society where the tendency is to scale up more and more, but are we actually on the path to a small-town revival?
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These photos of Staunton, Virginia, serve as a reminder that the benefits of “urbanism” aren’t limited to big cities.
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The housing market has been insane for decades. That it’s less insane in a small town is only one reason you should consider buying there.
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The governor of Wyoming says the state may have to abandon some small towns because it doesn’t have the money to maintain their sewers and streets. How did it get to this point? And what should be done?
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Local governments need to be repositioned to advocate up instead of merely administering down. As an alternative to populist fervor or broad disenfranchisement, this is the kind of authentic representation that Rural America needs.
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Gleaned from a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of America, here are 8 principles the leaders and cities of America’s most successful towns swear by.
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With more work going virtual, small towns and mid-sized cities have an opportunity to attract new residents. Here are 6 tips to help communities start attracting and retaining talent.
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Hundreds of small towns may simply shut their doors. There is a road to survival—and eventual prosperity—but it’s a narrow one. Who will take it?
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Rural communities across the Midwest are careening toward collapse, and all at the same time. What this means for the region as a whole. Small towns need Strong Towns too.
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Two small Tennessee towns reveal the mighty power of a traditional downtown square—even one that isn’t designed to achieve its full potential. It’s simply the most foolproof and financially productive style of development there is.
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What does economic development look like in a small town where most of the proposals on the table involve significant infrastructure investment for an uncertain payoff? What’s the alternative?
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In this podcast episode, Chuck interviews Corie Brown, Zester Media co-founder and a writer on the food system, about the depopulation of rural Kansas, as mechanized agriculture reduces the need for farm labor, and the social toll that it is taking in isolated, shrinking towns.
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When a small Massachusetts town made national news as its entire police force quit, it was easy to have preconceived notions about what the moral of the story must be. Then a reader from the town reached out to give us this far more nuanced and interesting explanation.
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Victoria is a Canadian town with a bold mission: To become the best small biking city in the world. In this interview, Victoria's mayor talks about how the city plans to accomplish this goal and what it will mean for their community.
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