Author: SCM

We wrote Monday about the need for probation programs to move from being a joke to becoming a force for decreased recidivism.  A friend sends us this interesting article from Governing magazine about how it’s being done in...

We continue to be puzzled here by the arch-conservative and Tea Party beliefs that government should have no money invested in the human capital or social needs of Americans.  As we’ve written before, government is being...

From New York Times: Businesses Stand to Gain Most in Rivalry of States By A. G. SULZBERGER KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This city, sharing a name with one state but settled in another, has a long history of ugly border skirmishes dating...

From TruthDig: By Chris Hedges A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...

From the Futures of School Reforms blog:   By Robert Schwartz One of the issue areas I’ve paid most attention to in the last few years is teacher policy, an area in which it is pretty clear that the U.S. has a lot to...

From Next American City: Of all the design disciplines, historic preservation is perhaps the most misunderstood. While it’s widely accepted that architects design our buildings, and planners organize our cities, the role of...

Tennessee’s House Bill 368 passed the House of Representatives on a 70-23 vote on April 7, 2011. “The debate ranged over the scientific method, ‘intellectual bullies,’ hair spray and ‘Inherit the...

By Richard Florida for Atlantic magazine: For link, click here. America is an increasingly conservative nation, by ideology and by political affiliation, according to polling results from the Gallup Organization. While...

On Sunday, April 10th, from 2 to 7pm, many residents of the historic East Buntyn neighborhood will be hosting an arts fair unlike any other held in Memphis.   Arts and handicrafts will be on display on residents’ front...

From Rustwire: This is the full text of a letter from a business owner on why he might need to leave Michigan. This guy NAILED it, what we have been trying to express on this blog about sprawl and economic vitality. This is what...