Hello, it’s good to be back and share my new piece with Carol Graham in Bloomberg CityLab.

It’s about the importance of community revitalization as one antidote to misinformation. Check it out.
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I want to offer my condolences to all members of the UNLV community and their families, including our colleagues at Brookings Mountain West located there. This is a tragedy and horrific chapter that no community ought to endure.

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Awesome full-page print version of Andrew Van Dam’s recent Washington Post piece on how Census data misconstrues Native American identity.

For the full piece, with comments from me and others, see here: washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

Contrary to blurry narratives many big cities are back on rise

New take from @Amy_liuw w/ signals from Bill Frey, Yang You, & myself

--population is rebounding

-- #AI activity is surging there

--Digital service jobs are up in 'rising stars' 1

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'The pandemic did scramble where lots of people live, as they embraced working from home,' Amy Liu, interim president of the The Brookings Institution, writes in a guest opinion.

'At the same time ... the pandemic accelerated demand for advanced technologies.' wapo.st/3s6JPbi

I was truly saddened to hear of the passing of Dubby Wynne. Every region longs for an indefatigable civic leader who brings people together, resources transformational initiatives, and never ever gives up on the future of their home region. This was Dubby. He gave Hampton Roads

“America’s big-tech cities are thriving, not dying.”
Drawing on work by ⁦Brookings Metro⁩ scholars ⁦William Frey & Mark Muro, my colleague ⁦Amy Liu⁩ offers a v-good data-driven challenge to misleading conventional wisdom. Great charts. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

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David’s brilliance as a scholar was only surpassed by his kindness, warmth, curiosity, love for family, and generosity to friends. He was such a wonderful friend and colleague. His memory will be a blessing for everyone lucky enough to have spent time with him.

I’m sorry. But cities are not in decline.
#GOPDebate

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For all the GOP talk about high crime and poor practices in progressive cities, analysis by Hanna Love and Tracy Hadden Loh 🌸 show the contrary. In fact, the FL cities of Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tampa experienced more instances of and growth in violent crime than NYC.

We’re hearing from John Legend again, as he argues that we must reckon with our past to create a brighter future.

Learn more about our #HUMANLEVEL partnership, which seeks to help improve communities through well-being: brookings.edu/news/brookings…