The friendliest big little city in America
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Travel: Portland, Oregon has become the US's coolest city, and Beth Ditto is its coolest resident. To launch our new insider's guide column she reveals her favourite haunts
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 10--: This story is part of a monthly Sunday Neighbors series introducing newcomers to different aspects of Tucson.
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A little serendipity can take you places, including where you want to go.
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Travel: From downtown bistros serving local, organic feasts to simple coffee and doughnuts, Laura Barton finds the tastiest treats in town
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Among other things, âHouse of Happy Endingsâ evokes the sunny simplicity of small-town postwar America, and a bright young girlâs exploration of her small world.
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NEW YORK -- Two blocks south of Madison Square Garden, in a microcosm of what New Yorkers have been experiencing all week in this busy midtown neighborhood, a few feet of pavement told a tale of two cities.
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The Upper East Side contains the cityâs most exclusive residences, private schools and social clubs. But it has never been quite as socially exclusive as some might have liked.
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The three most prosperous large counties in the United States are in the Washington suburbs, according to census figures released yesterday, which show that the region has the second-highest income and the least poverty of any major metropolitan area in the country.
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The hardworking, tight-knit neighborhood known as "Little Guyana" is a peaceful home away from home for the many immigrants who left their violence-wracked Caribbean nation for a better life.
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A city down on its luck has an optimistic young leader. The scene there mirrors our national situation. Maybe we can all learn something from Luke Ravenstahl.
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Five people in five cities reflect on the nationÂs road forward.
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GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa -- Two states guard the campaign trail as though they own it. Their influence on national politics is wildly disproportionate to their modest populations. Neither has anything that could be called a large city, or a slum, or a sprawling suburb. Both are dotted with small towns...
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We love the romantic pretense of a homogenous, melting-pot America. It makes us feel good, gives us a sense of nobility and brings closure to our well-documented history of discriminating against one another.
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SAN JOSE has a reputation as one of the safest large cities in the nation, with the fewest police officers per capita. Yet a number of the 1,000 officers in this city of 925,000 in the heart
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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Frank Robinson is no stranger to Washington D.C., and his memories of the town are both pleasant and forgettable.
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The musical voice of downtown is happily at home in the suburbs.