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Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on States Subsidizing Filmmakers, Eugenie Birch on Istanbul as a Model Megalopolis
Sent July 23rd 2010

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Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on Washington-state Land Conservation, Roberta Brandes Gratz on Syracuse's Revival
Sent July 16th 2010

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Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on California's Possible Marijuana Legalization, Mary Newsom on Urban/Suburban Tax Yields
Sent July 9th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! My most recent column Mexico Americas Victim, on the cross-border drug issue touched off a geyser of responses. To check a sampling of same, click http://citiwire.net/post/2117/. Not content with that, my column ...
Citiwire.net: Neal Pierce on America-Mexico Drug Woes, Manuel Pastor on Metropolitan Ethnicity
Sent July 1st 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! An Old Yankee (me) uses tough language to describe the United States national hypocrisy as our drug appetite and refusal to end clearly failed prohibition of drugs kills Mexicans by the thousands. Conversely, a man o...
Citiwire.net: Neal Pierce on Neighborhood Displacement, Mary Newsom on Urban Ills
Sent June 26th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! At home and around the world: My column focuses on a humane, resident-respectful way of accomplishing a major urban renewal project, developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. Mary Newsoms reportage fr...
Citiwire.net Neal Peirce on Seattle Ethnic Diversity, Bill Dodge on Regional Government Charters
Sent June 19th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! Can neighborhoods apply business-like analytic tools, so that they accurately assess assets and needs and are then positioned to assess the impact of decisions they make, positioning themselves more effectively in the...
Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on Michelle Obama's Fight Against Childhood Obesity, Peter Katz on Public Housing
Sent June 11th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! The shape of 21st century America figures two ways in this weeks columns mine on the growing efforts to reverse the troublesome obesity rate among Americas children, and Peter Katzs on how the Obama administration ge...
Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on Livability, Mark Muro and Rob Puentes on a New Metro Formula
Sent June 5th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! This weeks Citiwire piece by Mark Muro and his Brookings colleague Rob Puentes, focused on Western metros advances in self-funding and the need for a thoughtful federal response, matches nicely with my column last wee...
Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on Self-Taxing and Neighborhood Centers
Sent May 29th 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! Georgias move to allow not just Metro Atlanta, but 12 regions around the state vote on sales tax add-on for transportation, could be a major breakthrough on two fronts: (1.) how metros get a measure of self-governance...
Citiwire.net: Neal Peirce on Metros as Keys to Our Future, Edward T. McMahon on Infrastructure
Sent May 21st 2010

Citiwire.net Welcome to Citiwire.net! Whats the outlook for cohesion, smart internal moves in Americas critically important metro areas in this tough decade? My column, built on findings in the recent major Brookings report, The State of Metropolitan Am...

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Welcome to Citiwire.net! It's about America's cities today -- opportunities, challenges, including Neal Peirce's weekly column for the Washington Post Writers Group and a parallel commentary by one of his valued Citistates Group colleagues.