Welcome to Citiwire.net! It’s about America’s cities today — opportunities, challenges, including my weekly column for the Washington Post Writers Group and a parallel commentary by one of my valued Citistates Group colleagues. Keith Schneider has for years kept his finger on a new American future as New York Times special correspondent, founder of the Michigan land Use Institute, and now director of communications for the Apollo Alliance. My column’s focus this week: Can we tap cutting-edge Internet technology to make our city governments truly more responsive?
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Our Mission
Our mission... to reflect a new American narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Our mission… to reflect a new narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Leaving behind the 20th century pattern of cheap energy, endless automobility, burgeoning suburbs, threatened inner cities. To a challenge-packed 21st century: energy prices headed north, perilous carbon emissions, deepening have-have not divisions, excruciating social problems and deep challenges in education. But a time of exciting promise, too. Read more ›