A good day for reading

It’s a lousy day for doing anything much beyond staying home and reading. (Wish I could do that!) So if any of you are lucky enough to be doing that, here are some things I’ve been squirreling away for a rainy (or freezing-rainy?) day. They’re links to interesting articles folks have sent over the past several months. So, if you’re interested:

– A Brookings Institution study concludes that CEO-led civic organizations have become less cohesive and risk losing their capacity for action. Charlotte’s one of the cities studied. The report includes, for example, a section titled “The Loss of the Hometown Bankers.” ‘Course, it’s the Charlotte banks that have helped create that situation elsewhere … Here’s a link.

– Here’s a link to an article in Metropolis magazine about the relationship between the type of places we live in and chronic health problems.

– And here’s one to an article about the role farmers markets can play in a city. If you’re a devotee of the Charlotte Regional Farmers market, I hope you know it’s open year round, and organic farmers such as Donnie Cline and Dean Mullis are there weekly, selling wintry veggies such as kale, turnips and radishes. In addition you can now buy pasture-raised pork and — sometimes beef and lamb — from farmers in the region.

Happy reading.