How will metro areas cope with a rising tide of homeland defense issues? Especially on biodefense issues, the Washington, D.C. region is fast becoming America’s beta-region — if only because it’s clearly a symbolic, high visibility target, or as one official puts it — “a bull’s eye.” Among several federal bioterror initiatives, there’s a new [...]
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Special Report
Authors
Neal Peirce Curtis Johnson Farley Peters Commentaries on the Theme
William Stafford
William Hudnut
Bill Barnes
Ian Scott
Mary Newsom
David Warm
Mark Pisano
Kathryn Foster
Neal Peirce
Urban Schoolhouse Perils — Three Coins in a Foundation
How bad can it get for urban school systems? America’s metro regions are facing critical shortages of well-educated workers. But in an alarming number of regions, the standing of urban school systems has dropped faster than the stock market. One inevitable result: most middle class families choose the slow commute from satellite communities with their [...]