Welcome to Citiwire.net! Our Citistates Associate Bill Stafford has been a true pioneer of citistates thinking — I remember him coaching me to “think metro” well over 35 years ago. Bill was predicting my future and I didn’t know it! His column this week looks at the economic side of today’s emerging metro-national-global connections. … My column this week, from a recent trip to Berlin, is focused on an effort, combining neighborhood outreach and inventive woman power, to help alienated and disconnected Turkish families reduce their isolation and integrate better into life of their new nation. It’s a kind of model applicable here and in many developed world nations obliged to work with immigrant populations of dramatically contrasting cultural backgrounds.
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