Can we 'flip' the pyramid to make U.S. metros thrive?(management and statistics of metros)

Nation's Cities Weekly, November, 2007 by Peirce, Neal

Does America need a federal government after all?

For years, as we've watched the bumbling of unfocused federal departments and programs twisted for special interests, the tempting answer has been "no."

Yet fresh breakthroughs, points of evidence that American inventiveness remains alive and well, have blossomed. But they've been away from Washington, in the states and the cities--stories this column has tried to highlight since the 1970s.

This week the Washington-based Brookings Institution delivered a startling message-not Washington-centric but metro-centric. It's time, says Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program, to shift our mental image away from the 50 states (though they remain a big factor) to the nation's 363 metropolitan regions,...

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