Author: SCM

From Columbia Journalism Review: The future of nonprofit news organizations has hit an unexpected roadblock in the agency that determines their tax-exempt status: The Internal Revenue Service. Nonprofit news organizations...

From Atlantic Cities: Earlier this week we looked at what a large city can do to increase the efficiency of its bus service in a high-density corridor. In Manhattan, bus stops are so crowded that transit officials must find ways...

From Atlantic Cities: When it comes to the holy trinity of art, architecture, and religion, few buildings are more significant than the 1898 Methodist Church in Norwalk, Connecticut. Anchoring a main street, the Romanesque-style...

  From Terrain.org: What does America’s oldest city have in common with one of its youngest? The urge to define itself. St. Augustine, Florida, launched its initiative in 1715 by petitioning the King of Spain for a coat of...

By Neal Peirce, Citiwire.net: DETROIT — “We stand with Occupy Wall Street. We’re inspired by the organizing we’ve seen… It catches the moment.” But the group PolicyLink, meeting here last week with 2,300 community organizers,...

From Governing: Fresh out of Boston University and working as an admissions officer there, I showed my boss applications from four students with nearly identical credentials. Why, I asked, were three of them rejected while the...

This outstanding column was written by Marcus Pohlman and published last week in The Commercial Appeal: The average child in America will spend less than 10 percent of his or her life in school through the 12th grade. If we are...

From Off the Charts Blog: Note: With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the Center thought this was a good time to look at the latest figures on various indicators of hardship. This is the first in a series of posts on this...

According to the latest results from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll, some news sources make us less likely to know what’s going on in the world. In the most recent study, the poll asked New Jerseyans about...