Small Cities  The New Geography of Population Loss and Gain
The Dispersionist Manifesto    Washington State's Evolving
Demography    Pickles Plans a Pogrom     Census 2010 Offers
Portrait of America in Transition    Why North Dakota Is Booming
Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North
Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development.
Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated
by the state's Department of Mineral Resources at least 4.3
billion barrels—they are out drilling like mad. And the state is
booming.  read more »  Regional Efficiency: The Swiss Model?
Micheline Calmy-Rey, Switerland's President.jpg   The Midwest:
Coming Back?   Oh my name it is nothing My age it is less The
country I come from Is called the Midwest  –Bob Dylan, “With God
on Our Side,” 1964  For nearly a half century since the
Minnesota-raised Robert Zimmerman wrote those lines, the
American Midwest has widely been seen as a “loser” region–a
place from which talented people have f