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Welcome to Citiwire.net! What kind of an urban policy will the Obama administration really effect? What are the potentials of the new White House Office of Urban Affairs? Both this week’s columns deal with that topic. Our Citistates Associate, Robert Lang of Virginia Tech, in a column co-authored with Lawrence Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University,  focuses on the need to include suburbia in the new “urban” mindset and approach. My column deals more specifically on the new White House Office of Urban Affairs, its amazing potentials and serious challenges. … Meanwhile, Vivek Kundra, the new White House chief technology officer featured in my column last week, has been cleared of any wrongdoing with an arrest of an official in his former District of Columbia technology office and reinstated in his new federal job.