Here’s a program worth borrowing — Pittsburgh’s Experienced Dreamers: Pittsburgh is looking for Experienced Dreamers™ – people with a bit of experience under their belts and a desire to do something different...
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles may be the land of the freeway, but it is notorious for its bad sidewalks — buckled, cracked and sometimes impassable. By the city’s own estimate, 42% of its 10,750 miles of pedestrian...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Back in 1999, a group of Philadelphia artists known as the Heretical Society made a rather unusual demand, considering their profession. In their Martin Lutheresque tract “No More Ugly Murals,” the...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective: Walkscore, a favorite civic tech app, notes that our Storefront has a decent walkscore but an unfortunate transit score. The other day I got a phone call from Josh McManus to talk about his...
Read MoreFrom Urbanophile: If you look at the typical urban redevelopment efforts in any given city, they are heavy on capital expenditures. I’ve noticed quite a slew of articles on this of late related to Detroit: a light rail line on...
Read MoreFrom Chronicle of Higher Education: Researchers can have revelatory moments in remarkable places—the African savannah, an ancient library, or the ruins of a lost civilization. But Richard J. Jackson’s epiphany occurred in...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Sunni terrorist detonates a bomb at a crowded Shiite shrine in Iraq. Political anti-Semitism is on the rise in the Russian Federation, even though most of its Jews have long-since emigrated. Millions of...
Read MoreFrom Urbanophile: Last November I was privileged to be able to speak at a community conversation event in Franklin, Indiana – a town of about 25,000 people south of Indianapolis that is an old county seat on the edge of suburban...
Read MoreBy Mark Sturgis Memphis Director of Stand for Children First, I would like to thank the tireless, hard-working, and often overlooked teachers in our districts, who meet our students where they are and bring them their best. As a...
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →