Monthly Archives: December 2007

A Tragic Loss for Civic America

Waves of deep sorrow — personal and professional — have been rolling over the members of our Citistates Group and indeed all of civic America, mourning over the entirely untimely death of our friend and colleague, John Parr. John was killed, with his wonderfully creative journalist wife Sandy and daughter Chase, in an automobile accident [...]

Metros=Citistates

You can call them “metros.” We’ve been calling them “citistates” for a long time– and we stick by the definition we created some years ago: Citi•state — n. — A region consisting of one or more historic central cities surrounded by cities and towns which have a shared identification, function as a single zone for [...]