News: Hanover, MA Salutes Veterans

[Via Hanover Mariner]

http://www.wickedlocal.com/hanover/news/x784971876/Memories-from-Memorial-Day

News: Harold Ford Advised Barack Obama To Visit Middle America

[Via Newsweek]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/138511

Quote: Dag Hammarskjold

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. - Dag Hammarskjold

Quote: Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Every time people can contribute successfully to the cause of serving the community, they become even more committed to it. - Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Cities: West Texas Towns Highlighted in Movie Festival

Tulia, Tx (Population 5,117)

[Via Lubbock Online]

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/050308/loc_274968133.shtml

Cities: Mid-sized Minnesota City Sees Great Economic Growth

Cloquet, MN (Population 11,201)

[Via Pine Journal]

http://www.cloquetmn.com/articles/index.cfm?id=13487&section=News

News: Mid-sized Cities Try to Encourage Growth and Keep Their Identities

[Via USA Today]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-05-04-newboomtown_N.htm

News: To Help Fight Gas Prices, Small Cities in Arkansas Offer Transportation Services To Residents

[Via Baxter Bulletin]

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/OPINION01/805140360/1014/OPINION

News: Obama Struggles To Connect With Middle America

[Via Denver Post]

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9296618

News: President Honors Greensburg, Kansas on One-Year Anniversary of Tornado

[Via The Baltimore Sun]

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/bush_salutes_kansas_grads_and.html

News: Bill Clinton - Surrogate to Middle America

[Via NBC/ National Journal Reporter]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24466326/

News: Telecom Bringing New Services and Big Changes to Middle America

[Via Telecommunications Online]

http://www.telecommagazine.com/newsglobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_4174

News: Workshop on Bringing Doctors to Middle America

[Via Kansas City Star, MO]

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1372311/workshop_calls_attention_to_rural_healthcare_crisis/

News: Air Service to Mid and Small-Sized Cities

[Via CBS Evening News]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/02/eveningnews/main4068431.shtml

News: Bush Speech on Spirit of Community

Greensburg Pop. 1,574

[Via whitehouse.gov at Greensburg, Kansas]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080504.html

Quote: Vaclav Havel

"Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a desire to contribute to the happiness of the community." - Vaclav Havel

Quote: Wendell Berry

"Community life is by definition a life of cooperation and responsibility." - Wendell Berry