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Dec 5th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Does the name R.T. Rybak ring a bell? If you’re not from Minneapolis, perhaps not. The rumor is he deserves to be Obama’s new secretary of transportation. Maybe we’ll add Rybak to our perfect-for-a-moneyless-holiday wish list: people we hope Obama will appoint. (
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Dec 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
A recent
Wall Street Journal article suggests that cities should do anything they can to avoid cutting crime-reduction budgets during these lean times. (
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Nov 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
Next American City’s
Brentin Mock wrote about the controversy surrounding New Orleans Charity Hospital for our Summer 2008 issue (No. 19) months ago — now the story is making national news with a little help from the
Times. (
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Nov 5th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Barack Obama (city) + Joe Biden (transit) = awesomeness for American cities (
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Oct 21st, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
I’ve been getting a deluge of e-mails and phone calls all last week from people wanting to know the status of the Urban Leaders Fellowship. Apologies for the delay! Read on to find out the details…
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Oct 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Detroit, Philadelphia |
I’d never been to Detroit before, only driven through it once on my way from Toronto to Chicago. What I knew of the city were images of the Ren Cen, urban blight, Eminem and GM. I went out to Detroit for the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 and gave a keynote speech about young urban leader organizations…. and wasn’t quite sure what to say about the city until I was out last night in Philadelphia… (
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Oct 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin, Detroit |
The
Creative Cities Summit in Detroit will run from October 12 to October 15. On the 15th, I will be delivering the keynote luncheon speech about what young urban leader organizations are doing in cities across the country. (
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Sep 30th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
The
New York Sun, a conservative paper that was almost entirely freely distributed to the wealthier zip codes of New York, has failed to finance its future. I should be cheering the demise a paper with an editorial page almost as heinous as the
Wall Street Journal‘s, but I’m much more concerned about the relationship between cities and their papers. Read on. (
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Sep 16th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
I got to work this morning to find my e-mail inbox overflowing with applications for our
Urban Leaders Fellowship. While we haven’t tallied the total number of applicants, let’s just say that the outpouring exceeded our expectations. Read on to see who will be choosing the new Urban Leader. (
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Sep 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City |
Last night,
Next American City rocked out for three hours while listening to an incredible set list culled by
NAC subscriber Doug Sell. Read on to find out where the evening took us. (
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