In the News

Welcome to ?In the News.? ?Below you will find some highlights of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute?s media coverage. ?If you are a journalist, please check out Smart Growth America?s Resources for Journalists.

NEA and EPA launch Governors' Institute on Community Design,
a project led by SGLI and SGA

Neighborhood groups mixed in 'Smart Growth' reaction, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA 1.17.05

Big Sky or big sprawl Independent-Record, Helena, MT, 11.20.04

Former Maryland governor cites changes to fuel smart growth The Baton Rouge Advocate, 10.15.04

Growth expert backs site-specific guidelines Lawrence Journal-Herald, KS, 8.11.04

Sprawl: The New Manifest Destiny Environmental Health Perspectives, 8.04

Smart-growth steps outlined The Journal-World, Lawrence KS 7.26.04

Cracking the code: Baton Rouge's development code undercuts its Horizon Plan The Business Report, Baton Rouge, LA 7.19.04

OPINION: Better planning for Baton Rouge The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA, 7.12.04

Smart-Growth Advocate Says Baton Rouge Could Lead Way The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA, 7.7.04

Blame elected officials The Business Report, Baton Rouge, LA 7.7.04

Speaker to promote smart-growth policies in Baton Rouge The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA, 7.6.04

OPINION: Planning must start now The e-Truth, Elkhart, IN, 6.20.04

Land-use issues addressed The e-Truth, Elkhart, IN, 6.16.04

Smart Growth aids Metro plans The Nashville City Paper, 6.16.04

Growing pains raise questions Post and Courier, Charleston SC 4.30.04

Advisers to reconcile '3 Lawrences' The Journal-World, Lawrence KS 4.2.04

SGLI: Lawrence KS City Hall report The Journal-World, Lawrence KS 3.30.04

Auditing rules only first step The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA 3.20.04

Commentary: On Second Thought - So much more than a bailout The Daily Record (Baltimore, MD), 2.20.04

"Smart Politics" by Parris Glendenning (PDF) Reprinted by permission from The Environmental Forum, January - February 2004

Baton Rouge will bring in experts in the concepts of "smart growth" for review The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA, 12.23.03

Making the most of a rainy day Governing Magazine 12.03

'Smart growth' group to aid city Journal-World, Lawrence, KS 12.20.03

The Right Choice for The EPA The Washington Post, 9.20.03

Study links community sprawl to fat; Density: Smart Growth group finds that people who don't live in compact cities are heavier than those who do The Baltimore Sun, MD 8.29.03

Expert: Clark still can control growth The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY 8.13.03

State serves as model for land preservation; Michigan officials admire local protected farmland? The Baltimore Sun, MD 6.21.03

'Smart Development' can mean many things The Columbus Dispatch, OH, 6.17.03

Talk focuses on containing sprawl The Buffalo News, NY, 5.23.03

Ex-governor brings sprawl fight to Maine The Portland Press Herald, Maine 2.26.03

Glendening Has Raised a Third of New Institute's Budget The Washington Post 2.12.03

In his first job out of office, Glendening to fight sprawl The Baltimore Sun, MD 2.11.03

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