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Welcome to Citiwire.net! “Are states obsolete?” I hesitated before using the headline–after all it’s the recession that’s causing a huge mountain of trouble for our states today. But the problems may go a lot deeper in an urban age, especially the refusal of legislatures to grasp metropolitan dynamics and to face up to the immense planning and fiscal for competitive societies in this century. … In his Citiwire piece, Associate Alan Hoffman, a distinguished transportation expert, raises some intriguing questions about the love affair we’ve all been having with light rail, arguing that for a lot of America’s dispersed metro settlement patterns, it’s not necessarily the best solution. And please note, we’re welcoming comments on these columns–check the area at the bottom of each.