Economic Development

Dallas ranks as the top city in the United States for sports business. — The following is adapted from my email newsletter. To subscribe, click here. It’s official: Dallas is #1 (again). This week, Sports Business Journal announced that Dallas ranks as the top city in the United States for sports business, beating out New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. Dallas is a clear…

As a creative producer in Chicago, I’ve been curious to learn more about the mayoral candidates’ platforms regarding the creative sector. Thanks to Arts Alliance IL, we can now get a better sense of where they stand by reading their responses to the Chicago Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire. Both candidates acknowledge…

All traditions have made the broom a symbol of magic, and for good reason: the broom, an instrument of power over vital space. Sanitation took from us both the odor and the broom. — Jean Robert Underneath the cosmetic sheen of the metropolis run its smelly guts: thousands of miles…

Cars create distance. Speedy vehicles of all kinds render space scarce. They drive wedges of highways into populated areas, and then extort tolls on the bridge over the remoteness between people that was manufactured for their sake. This monopoly over land turns space into car fodder. It destroys the environment…

I propose as a materialist motto: we never get a relevant answer if our practices have not enabled us to produce a relevant question. [.…] Naming sorcery the power of what has been able to profit from any assurance our convenient simplifications entailed, means that it may well be we…

By Mary Tiffin, Global Communications, The Hunger Project Access to information unlocks a world of opportunity. Information allows individuals to address the underlying and systemic challenges that are keeping chronic hunger in place — challenges like malnutrition and health, economic insecurity, food insecurity and gender inequality. Over the next six…

We All Live Here, Let’s Invest In Our Collective Benefit — Infrastructure is the backbone of any society. Roads, bridges, water systems, and energy grids all form the foundation upon which we build our economies and communities. Therefore, it is crucial that we make smart investments in infrastructure to ensure that it can meet our needs today and in the future. …