Welcome to Citiwire.net! How can we justify the incredible sums to bail out Wall Street, its greed and malfeasance, and then say we’re too poor to make the fundamental infrastructure and human capital investments that are critical for the future of our country’s communities? Apologies if I sound hot under the collar making that point this week; I really mean it. In cooler fashion, former Mayors Bill Hudnut and Charles Royer, members of our Citistates Group, note in the Citiwire.net column that a range of essential issues for “Hometown America” were being ignored 20 years ago — and still are today.
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tom e bowers: WOW! Thanks for encouraging others to look to nature over expensive man-made solutions.
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Charlie Doggett: Great article! This inversion has definitely started in Nashville. One thing that concerns me as an...
Ellen McCarthy: Karen Schoen - You’re kidding, right? Young people want to live in cities because cities are...
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Karen Schoen: Regionalism as promoted in the communist manifesto and also in UN Agenda 21. Regionalism is necessary...
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