Welcome to Citiwire.net! After decades of writing columns noting (and bemoaning) America’s backward prison and drug policies, I can finally see some rays of real hope. The top news: Virginia Sen. Jim Webb’s proposal, favored by the Obama administration, to have a blue-ribbon commission look into the entire tangle of national policies on these issues and propose fundamental solutions. … In the Citiwire.net column for this week, Citistates Group Associate Mark Muro, a chief Brookings Institution strategist on metro issues, reports on a major Brookings study of what the federal government’s massive economic stimulus bill signifies, doesn’t signify, but could mean for metro regions nationwide.
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