This piece originally appeared on Rust Wire. A city must know itself—its identity—so that it can attract people whose tastes align with what the city is really all about, minus the cookie-cutter banal ...

As presidential election results roll in, all eyes are on seven swing states, three of which are part of the "Rust Belt." The Rust Belt refers to a part of the country that was once a manufacturing ...

It was Brian Lampkin who initially opened Rust Belt Books in Allentown in 1996. Rust Belt’s current owner – Kristi Meal – started working at the book shop in 1998, and eventually took it over in 2004.

The new facility will be able to process roughly 5,000 tons of material each year. And it will be designed to use a method called covered aeriated static piles. Brown described the method this way: ...