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Metropolitan Boston ... #winning
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California Dreaming
Some of the most interesting developments in health care policy these days aren’t taking place in Washington. They’re taking place in Sacramento and the rest of California, where public officials, private sector leaders, and activists are working to implement the Affordable Care Act. READ MORE >>
Metros Turn Up the Heat on Addressing Climate
As the heat and humidity settle into Washington for the season and the hope that Congress might one day take action to prevent a warming climate melts away, readers can find some relief in a recent spate of reports emanating from across metro America. READ MORE >>
Coachella: Great Music, Terrible Air
The 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival starts today in Indio, California. Over 75,000 tragically hip festival goers have arrived at the Date Capital of the World for what has become, just over a decade since its first installment, one of the most popular music festivals in the country. READ MORE >>
A New State of the States
What are states good for? The 19th century answer was that states are a critical counterweight to federal power. The 20th century answer was that states are laboratories of democracy--tinkering with the beta versions of laws and policies before other states or the federal government adopted them on a large scale. The 21st century answer is that states are the enablers and supporters of metropolitan economies. READ MORE >>
Yesterday, we noted the extreme concentration in just a few metropolitan areas of the leading-edge U.S. cleantech firms honored in the Global Cleantech 100 list of the most promising start-ups. We noted that a whopping 39 of the 58 U.S. firms included in the list are hyper-clustered in just four metropolitan areas—San Francisco, San Jose, Boston, and Los Angeles, in that order. It goes to show the significant power of proximity in innovation. READ MORE >>
Requiem for the DLC
What Does a Municipal Bankruptcy Look Like?
In Vallejo, Calif., the city just outside San Francisco trying to emerge from its 2008 bankruptcy, it looks like “unsecured creditors receive 5 to 20 cents on the dollar.” And who are those unsecured creditors? Mostly city employees and retirees. READ MORE >>
