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Christopher Swope

Christopher Swope

Former Editor

Christopher Swope, a former Governing editor, writes about city innovation and leadership.

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Gulf Coast Day 3: Don't Leave Me High, Don't Leave Me Dry
Biloxi Councilman George Lawrence took me for a drive through his ward yesterday. It's a U-shaped gerrymander around the point of East Biloxi, where people ...
April 08, 2010
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Gulf Coast Day 4: Big Box Bonanza
Like many of the towns along Mississippi's Gulf Coast, Gulfport has fallen in love with New Urbanism since Katrina. The city has held a series ...
April 08, 2010
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Gulf Coast Day 5: The Wake in Waveland
There is so much destruction up and down the Mississippi coast that you can become inured to the sight of bombed out buildings and concrete ...
April 08, 2010
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Sensationalism on Parade
Most Sunday mornings when I read the newspaper, my issue of Parade Magazine goes straight into the garbage can, along with all the other stuff ...
April 08, 2010
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The Governor of Seattle
D.C. United, our hometown soccer club, played Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid to a 1-1 draw the other night in a match played in Seattle. ...
April 08, 2010
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More Bobbletower Fun
Thanks to one of our readers for pointing out that the famous Leaning Tower of Sioux Falls, SD, the undemolishable ZIP Feed mill, is now ...
April 08, 2010
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Pension Woes Mounting?
My "pension doom ahead" folder is bursting with clips lately. E.J. McMahon, writing in today's WSJ (paid subsc), argues that public pension ...
April 08, 2010
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Not So Sharpe
We gave you a Heads Up about this a little earlier, but it deserves a little more discussion. You can hardly blame Sharpe James. He ...
April 08, 2010
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Bad Reefers
Sinking ships, airplanes or even piles of rocks in the ocean to form aritificial reefs is a good idea. My dad, an avid SCUBA diver ...
April 08, 2010
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Urinalgate
You could forgive Maryland Guv hopeful Martin O'Malley if Watergate crossed his mind. It seems an intruder broke into his Baltimore campaign office the other ...
April 08, 2010
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