Alex Pearlstein

<p>Crime-weary residents of all ages, races and sexes are increasingly choosing to protect themselves by purchasing guns and learning to shoot them. Happiest about the trend are the owners of the city's gun shops.</p>

<p>With Downtown Austin exploding with new mixed-use development, the redevelopment of a low-income apartment complex into a new mixed-use project has affordable-housing advocates worried that the city's supply of below-market-rate housing is vanishing.</p>

<p>With development encroaching on mountains, Indian lands, and protected species' habitats, projections are that the city will run out of room to grow.</p>

<p>With elections over, Atlanta's major newspaper calls for state and local politicians to take the steps necessary to develop multi-modal transportation options in the region.</p>

<p>Despite declining manufacturing employment, Chicago has continuously reinvented itself -- resulting in a thriving, diverse economy that leverages the throngs of young professionals continually attracted to the city.</p>