Submitted by PartisanHack on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 11:47am
The City Wire has been getting some notice ... and not just the quality 1% PFT reporting.
Scott Ford's comments (as reported here) seem to have raised some eyebrows, for all the wrong reasons.
The Columbia Journalism Review aren't big fans of Mr. Ford's hyperbolic, strained Rwanda-OWS analogy. Other blogs have since picked up on the story.
Submitted by PartisanHack on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 7:58pm
Since the other article was sidetracked...
Submitted by PartisanHack on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 4:53pm
A lot of agri-business focused areas at the bottom of the list (central California, Yakima) and border towns (Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo) ... and Fort Smith.
Clearly, we have plenty of work yet to do to create/attract more higher education and/or higher-skill jobs to the area and reverse the "brain drain".
Educational attainment ranking for the 200 largest U.S. metros:
191. Modesto, CA
192. Fort Smith, AR
193. Hickory, NC
194. Laredo, TX
195. Yakima, WA
196. Bakersfield, CA
197. Visalia, CA
198. Brownsville, TX
Submitted by PartisanHack on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 8:53pm
For those unfamiliar, as you can see from the movie trailer on the link below, the movie based on the Charles Portis novel is partly set in Old West era Fort Smith (although actually filmed in Granger, Texas, outside Austin).
With a truly outstanding cast (Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges as Marshal Cogburn) and crew (Coen brothers directing), the film is already generating Oscar buzz. That the studio would move up the release three days is probably a sign they are very pleased with the end result.
