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Category Archives: Burlington VT

December 3, 2016

A Post-Election Field Report From America’s Refugees and Immigrants

Burlington VT, Civic Life, Dodge City KS, Erie PA, Sioux Falls SD

A Post-Election Field Report From America’s Refugees and Immigrants

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by Deborah Fallows

Words and stories from the towns where the newest Americans live

(Read it here.)

September 16, 2014

The 100% Renewable-Powered City: Too Good to be True?

Burlington VT • Tags: Burlington VT

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by James Fallows
Balancing substance and symbolism in the movement toward cleaner energy sources (Read it here.)

September 15, 2014

Greening Up in Burlington, Rocking Out in Allentown Reply

Burlington VT, Community Redevelopment • Tags: Allentown PA, Burlington VT

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by James Fallows
As American government seems ever more paralyzed at the national level, cities continue to find ways to grapple with real problems. Two more examples. (Read it here.)

March 24, 2014

The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road

Burlington VT, Greenville SC, Sports and Recreation

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by James Fallows
Are people in smaller towns “nicer” than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better. (Read it here.)

March 20, 2014

Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures

Burlington VT, Greenville SC

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by James Fallows
“I loathed it with the heat of a thousand million suns.” (Read it here.)

January 7, 2014

Why Do Tech Companies End Up Where They Are?

Burlington VT, Economic Life, Redlands CA • Tags: High-tech companies

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by James Fallows
“You get some clusters, and some stand-alone firms far from anyone else. But rarely anything in-between.”   (Read it here.)

January 5, 2014

Luck? Planning? Karma? The Elements of a Small Town’s High-Tech Success

Burlington VT, Economic Life, Entrepreneurs, Redlands CA

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by James Fallows
A software company grows in an unlikely setting. “Why here?” we ask the founders. (Read it here.)

November 6, 2013

America-Going-to-Hell Watch, Heady Topper Dept.

Beer, Burlington VT

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by James Fallows
Ever closer to the magical-unicorn ideal (Read it here.)

October 21, 2013

What Would an Ideal College Look Like? A Lot Like This

Burlington VT, Colleges and Universities, Community Colleges and Career-Technical Schools

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by John Tierney
While you’re busy designing your version of the ideal, I can take a nap or go fishing, because somebody has already built mine: Champlain College. (Read it here.)

October 14, 2013

How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?

Burlington VT, Colleges and Universities

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by John Tierney
There are lots of familiar American “college towns” – places where a single university dominates the social and economic life of the city. Think Boulder, Ann Arbor, Madison, Berkeley, Princeton, Charlottesville. None of those college towns has quite the feel of Burlington, Vermont. (Read it here.)

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