Cover Stories

Debbie Schaeffer takes her passion for the arts beyond Mrs. G’s

Debbie Schaeffer is CEO of Mrs. G’s Appliances in Lawrence Township. Her grandparents, Abe and Beatrice Greenberg, opened a plumbing supply store on East State Street in Trenton in...

La’Keisha Sutton goes from Globetrotter to community mentor

La’Keisha Sutton is a hooper, a serious basketball player who shares her skills, training methods, mindset and approach....

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

Hopewell Valley Stage reopens after summer hiatus

Hopewell Valley Stage has resumed programming after a six-week summer hiatus, returning with a new website, improvements to...

Redeveloping Our Cities: ‘The New Localism’ Approach

Cities have long been seeking out companies to relocate to their business-friendly confines. By dangling tax breaks and other incentives, cities hope to boost...

For Millennial Couple, Home Is Where It’s Walkable

According to conventional wisdom, if your company wants to attract bright young workers of the millennial generation (those born in the 1980s or 1990s)...

Book Excerpt: Cities’ Local Advantage

The excerpt below is reprinted from “The New Localism,” by permission of the publisher, the Brookings Institution Press. ...

The I-Banker Who Traded Stocks for Crops

Few jobs are romanticized as much as that of the farmer, and it’s easy to see why. To the thousands of people who commute...

Summer Fun for the Young – And Young at Heart

You can feel it in your blood — well after the cox has yelled “ready up” and your eight-person crew has hoisted the rowing...

From Humble Start to King of the Start-Up

If you ever stop by the Tigerlabs incubator, you might see a redheaded businessman there working, sometimes in a Steve Jobsian black turtleneck, and...
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