Small Towns

2010: The Year Main Street Sticks It to Wall Street and Washington

Don McNay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business


Don McNay

If anyone has ever dreamed of being an office holder, 2010 is the year to do it. There are going to be several situations where voters elect a complete unknown, just to express their anger about the incumbent.

Small Town Values in a Big Time Lawyer

Don McNay | Posted 10.10.2009 | Impact


Don McNay

It could be that President Obama is a small town guy after all. His early adulthood on the south side of Chicago is where he found a "small town" environment that embraced him.

Captain Jack Carey: Losing a Legend

Lise Waring | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver


Lise Waring

Small town living makes me a part of a diverse community where everyone from real estate broker to rasta is united in the same sentiment, which Jack always embraced, warmth for humanity.

It Takes an Income to Support a Village

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.15.2009 | Style


Lita Smith-Mines

When I stopped earning a respectable living I knew I had to cut back on expenses. But what I really cut back on was supporting many of the small business owners and individuals who live and work around my town.

Who Cares About New York?

Harry Moroz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

Urban America is resurgent and hearing the stories -- both good and bad -- from its diverse environs will help city dwellers and suburbanites alike better understand the nation's economic challenges.

The Great American Heartland Initiative: Creating Obama's "Working Majority for Change"

Paul Abrams | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Obama won 52.4% of the popular vote. What does that mean for the "working majority for change" that Obama needs to create and sustain, a tall order under any circumstances in turf-focused Washington, DC?

Little Town, Big Town

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics


Marcia DeSanctis

There is no advantage in deliberately creating character divisions based on geography in a country where good and bad, and hard-worker, slacker -- and unemployed -- mean the same, everywhere.

I Was Born in a Small Town.

Joan Garry | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics


Joan Garry

I was born in Amityville, New York. Small town. About the size, let's say, of Wasilla, Alaska. My mom was born there too. She's 81 and still lives...

Palin, GOP find community challenges a real hoot

Monroe Anderson | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics


Monroe Anderson

At the expense of Barack Obama, community groups and their organizers were a running joke in St. Paul last week at the Republican National Convent...

Palin Ain't no Truman

Diane Francis | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Diane Francis

In 1934, Truman was elected as a U.S. Senator and for the next ten years undertook a distinguished career in Washington DC representing the people of Missouri.