How The Rise Of Telework Could Transform The Future of Rural Communities? — You can fit more than 40 Bends or 120 Walla Wallas in metro Seattle, and still have room for a few more Starbucks. Named after the Farewell Bend in the Deschutes River, tech workers and executives have been making the delighted acquaintance of outdoor sports and craft-beer utopia Bend for…

As the roots of America were being established, Lisbon was one of the richest cities in the world. In 1755, an earthquake that caused a fire brought the Portuguese economy to a grinding halt. In that local crisis, Amsterdam and London displaced Lisbon’s trading empire. A crisis that closed down…