Episode Details

Chuck Marohn returns to the Week Ahead podcast to report on recent events in Bismarck, North Dakota; West Palm Beach, Florida; and Thomasville, Georgia. Then he and Rachel dish about the 16 towns selected for the 2018 Strongest Town Contest. See the final bracket, read each town's submission and cast your votes here.

• Sioux Falls, SD presentation on March 5
• Fishers, IN presentation on March 8
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision by John Dominic Crossan
• God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World by Stephen Prothero