I'm 48--I don't expect to see an interstate through the area in my lifetime
The New College Institute was started in 2004. I don't see the academic programs it offers as being the ones I'd want to build an economy around.
I agree that the healthcare is worrisome--I spent time there when my mother and my father were hospitalized. I thought my mother's care was good; I moved my father to Winston-Salem.
I agree with the assessment of the linked article: the textile jobs dissipated after WWII and I could see the end coming in the late 1980s (before NAFTA). The forces that pushed for NAFTA to be put in place--lower wages outside the US and associated outsourcing of production--had already done their damage.
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Link: Looking Back on Southside: Three transitions
Posted: 12/12/2018 at 5:59PM