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Checklists for Success, from Knoxville to Salt Lake City and Beyond
Skyline of the city that American Futures cruelly left out (Eric Schramm / Visit Salt Lake)We’re back to followup on my March issue story about local-level civic coherence, even at a time of the worst...
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A Change in Our RSS Feed: Updates Coming Soon
Thanks to the many, many people who have written in today to say that the RSS feeds (which send updates on our web posts, by email) for me, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and possibly some other...
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America by Air: Downtown Seattle
Seattle looms large in all things aviation-related, due mainly to the presence of Boeing. It looms large in my own aviation-related life, since I got my instrument rating while living there in 1999,...
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From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between: Civic Updates
Downtown Fresno mural (James Fallows)Here are some generally positive developments from places we’ve visited in our travels.Fresno:...
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Craft Breweries: No, I'm Not Kidding, They Actually Matter in Civic Development!
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 Allworth...
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Garry Shandling and the Disease You Didn’t Know About
Unlike most people writing reflections on the late Garry Shandling, I had no personal or professional connection to him. Of course I thought he was funny, in a pioneering cringe-inducing way. And like...
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Our Friend the Parathyroid (and Our Enemy, the Parathyroid Gone Bad)
Some of the joys of parathyroid disease (Nat’l Library of Medicine)Yesterday, in the more formal, non-Notes precincts of the Atlantic’s site, I did a post occasioned by Garry Shandling’s death. It’s...
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Aviation Videos Presented Simply Because They Are Interesting
The first one is a concept video from Aero Glass, a company working on an “augmented reality” way to display traffic, airspace, glide paths, taxiway information, and other useful features for pilots of...
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Readers on Their Parathyroid Experiences: ‘It’s Up to You’
What we’re talking about (Wikimedia)This is part of a brand-new Thread, kicked off for this reason:As I mentioned in yesterday’s Note, I’m not in a position to do follow-up reporting on a topic I...
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What Sarah Palin Should Have Taught Donald Trump
The Sarah Palin of 2016 joins the original 2008 version at a Town Hall in Wisconsin yesterday (Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters)I made one very bad called about the 2016 election, which I quickly confessed!...
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The Parathyroid Experts Speak
From the Parathyroid Peeps site.To round out some of the reader accounts and other reports collected in his thread, occasioned by Garry Shandling’s death, here without further setup are statements from...
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Hmmm, Why Does This Sound Familiar? Part 1,293
CNBC poll results, from Steve Liesman report on April 4A big theme in our ongoing reports from across the United States, and of my story in our March issue, is that Americans feel much better about the...
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Adventures With Orwell, Modern China Edition
A top leader and his grateful people (China Daily)Who says the cult of personality might be getting out of hand, or has any familiar overtones?A top leader and his grateful people (Wikispaces)Thanks to...
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On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life, in More Ways...
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.Thanks to my Atlantic colleague Kathy Gilsinan...
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America 2016, in 2 Quotes
From Donald Trump’s rally in Bethpage, Long Island, this week. The saying on that sign is not one of the quotes I have in mind. (Carlo Allegri / Reuters)Quote one, from Michael Cohen’s report for the...
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Wichita, Salisbury, Knoxville, Seattle: Revival Updates
Citizen University (Alan Alabastro Photography)Here are some recent developments that are related to the “America Is Putting Itself Back Together” argument in our March issue. They’re also connected to...
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Paradise Duluth
Postcard of the old Clyde Iron Works in its prime, via Perfect Duluth Day.As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups like...
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How to Understand Alibaba, ‘The House That Jack Ma Built’
Barack Obama and Jack Ma last November at the APEC meeting in Manila (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)During the years my wife Deb and I lived in China, we became friends with Duncan Clark, an investment...
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‘Love That Boy,’ by Ron Fournier
The cover of Ron Fournier’s new book.Many Atlantic site readers will know Ron Fournier from his political writings — for many years for the AP, and in recent years for National Journal, part of the...
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A 2-Year-Old Article About an 87-Year-Old Book, With New Relevance for the...
An old book with new relevance (Wikimedia)A reader email arrived overnight, about a book I’d last read or thought about when I was in college many decades ago. The email said:I am guessing that you...
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