Stephane Fitch identified which college towns have the most affordable real estate (hint: none of them are close to Silicon Valley and the likes of Google, Hewlett-Packard or Cisco), and Edward Siedle, an outside columnist, argued that pension funds could make some local governments go bankrupt.
Thinking about it broadly, in the United States there are locales known for finance ( New York), energy production ( Houston), and technology (Silicon Valley), but none are known for their regulatory prowess!