RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert E. Lang, Andrea Sarzynski and Mark Muro, July 20, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In this report, the authors describe and assess the new supersized reality of the Intermountain West and proposes a more helpful role for the federal government in empowering regional leaders’ efforts to build a uniquely Western brand of prosperity that is at once more sustainable, productive, and inclusive than past eras of boom and bust. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro and Robert E. Lang, September 08, 2009, University of Nevada Las Vegas
In speeches delivered at the Las Vegas roll-out of the Brookings Mountain West Initiative Mark Muro and nonresident senior fellow Robert Lang argue that Las Vegas presents an exaggerated version of America’s economic quandary. Muro declares that Las Vegas presents, in extreme form, some of the fundamental questions facing the whole country as it faces a major economic “reset” while Lang contends it can still emerge as America’s next true world city. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, November 21, 2008
8:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Phoenix, AZ
The authors of the report, “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper” held a forum in Phoenix to discuss population growth and economic/demographic change in America’s Intermountain West. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert E. Lang and Mark Muro, October 14, 2008, Headwaters News
Mark Muro and Robert Lang in a recent Headwaters News column bring to attention the “New American Heartland” — the Intermountain West, noting that the region's signature issues increasingly reflect the nation's, whether it be road and rail infrastructure, job quality, immigration, or energy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz, August 25, 2008, The Brookings Institution
What will delegates take away from the Denver convention? Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley write that Denver is the shape of things to come. Denver and its region’s leaders collaborate across borders and program areas as a full-fledged metropolitan area. Metro areas are the true engines of our national economy and Denver gets it. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey and Mark Muro, August 25, 2008, The Boston Globe
Democrats plant their blue flag in America's newest, most geographically expansive "swing" region - the fast-growing, increasingly diverse, no-longer-reliably-Republican Intermountain West. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey and Ruy Teixeira, August 19, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Long viewed as a GOP stronghold, the Intermountain West states have recently elected a number of Democrats in statewide races. In this analysis of what they term “the new swing region,” William Frey and Ruy Teixeira crunch the demographic and voting numbers to determine which voters where will decide the 2008 presidential contest in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Read More