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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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 ›