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Welcome to Citiwire.net — August 23 24 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
Welcome to Citiwire.net. This week Neal Peirce returns to one of his favorite topics: Cities using imagination and innovation to craft solutions to persistent problems. … This week’s guest columnist, ...
Wanted: A Big U.S. Boost for Exports 24 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
For Release Friday, August 23, 2013 Citiwire.net Speaking last month at Knox College Galesburg, Ill., President Obama began to try to refocus the American public on the economy. His attention to the...
Smart City Thinking 23 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
For Release Sunday, August 25, 2013 © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group How do cities reduce and control – before they get out of hand – the challenges they know they’ll be facing? Prevention and ...
Blowing the Whistle on the Drug War — At Last 14 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
For Release Tuesday, August 13, 2013 © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group I thought I’d never live to see the day. But now it’s happened. An attorney general of the United States has finally said he...
Welcome to Citiwire.net — August 13 14 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am
Welcome to Citiwire.net! For decades, Neal Peirce has written that the country should rethink the ineffective “war on drugs” — which has not stemmed drug use or drug trafficking but has instead brough...
Welcome to Citiwire.net – August 9 9 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Welcome to Citiwire.net! It’s August, and the news slows down, so Neal Peirce is writing about.. wait for it… goats. No, not stubborn politicians who ignore cities and regions, but actual goats, susta...
‘Sex and the Region’? Well, Maybe Not… 9 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
For Release Friday, August 9, 2013 Citiwire.net Any day now, I figure the term “inner city” will go the way of “carbon paper” and “adding machine.” Already, it has a sort of disco, big-hair-and-sho...
Goats Grazing the Graveyard: A Washington ‘First’ 9 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
For Release Sunday, August 12, 2013 © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON – It’s likely the first land clearing project of its kind that’s occurred in the Nation’s Capital – a city current...
Welcome to Citiwire.net – August 2 2 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
Welcome to Citiwire.net! This week, Neal Peirce and guest columnist Peter Katz focus on a bankrupt Detroit. But their vantage points differ. Neal describes efforts that may yet defy the many doom-and-...
Why Your City Might Be the Next Detroit 2 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
For Release Friday, August 2, 2013 Citiwire.net The headline on Time magazine’s cover story on Detroit’s bankruptcy poses a simple, scary question: “Is your city next?” Most of us can think of reas...
