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To Boost Springfield Economy, Attract These 3 Groups

When an expert on economic trends visited our community recently, he had some good news for business leaders: Springfield has a chance to win big in the future. That expert, Joel Kotkin, said trends show older millennials are leaving major metro areas because the cost of living is outpacing income.

The Single-Family House: An American Icon Faces Uncertain Future

by Rick Hampson — If Whitman was the poet of the single-family house, its polemicist is Joel Kotkin, a former East Coast newspaperman who now lives and teaches college in suburban Southern California. Three years ago, he founded a Houston-based think tank, the Center for Opportunity Urbanism…