Welcome to Citiwire.net! Could we really have a sensible food revolution in America? Could we save energy and improve health by rotating fields and growing a lot more food close to home and in our metro regions? Could a new president really take on the challenge? My column nibbles at the edges of the possibility, including the intriguing idea of the First Family doing some weeding in the White House lawn. My multi-talented Citistates colleague Bill Hudnut, in the Citiwire.net article, writes about a prestigious Urban Land Institute award for low-income housing hero Bart Harvey, and then more widely the stellar record of Enterprise, LISC and other non-profits in careful mortgage counseling of families that avoids most foreclosures.
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