August 14, 2009 – 2:46 pm
Citiwire.net column — July 24, 2009 “John Parr was an uncommon American citizen.” Those were the words of that my fellow Alliance for Regional Stewardship board member and Citistates colleague, Doug Henton of Collaborative Economics, on the untimely passing of John Parr, a great, boundary-crossing national civic leader. John and his wife Sandy and daughter [...]
September 13, 2005 – 3:25 pm
After 18 years focused on metro regions, the Citistates Group has launched a first-ever-in-America experiment: a newspaper series focused on shared strategic issues across a multi-state region. The New England Futures Project, co-sponsored with a newly-formed New England Partnership of leading civic organizations, will be launched the weekend of October 1-2 with release of the [...]
November 3, 2004 – 8:53 pm
BILL FULTON: California — that big blue state — is also the epicenter of a peculiar form of direct democracy: ballot-box zoning. With the constitution assuring easy access to the ballot, environmentalists, disgruntled citizens, and developers alike swamp the ballot, seeking the end-run around local elected officials. Now, the ballot-box zoning idea may be crossing [...]
