SPRAWL BEGETS FORECLOSURE. Apropos of recent debates about suburban sprawl — do we encourage it through bad incentives or are the suburbs just gosh darn nice places to live — The New York Times reports on rising home foreclosures in Atlanta (albeit, without mentioning the area’s runaway growth, acknowledged by just about everyone concerned about contemporary cities, even Georgia’s Republican former governor, Roy Barnes).

There’s been a 212 percent increase in forclosures in Atlanta’s Fulton County, and 13 counties in the metro region have been in violation of the Clean Air Act. It’s a landscape bad for pocketbooks, bad for the environment, and great for the auto and oil industries.

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.