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  From Streetfilms: While we were out videotaping for another Streetfilm, Gary Toth the Director of Transportation Initiatives with Project for Public Spaces (his resume includes 34 years of management experience at NJDOT)...

Beginning as a student in anthropology, Simon Sinek turned his fascination with people into a career of convincing people to do what inspires them. His earliest work was in advertising, moving on to start Sinek Partners in 2002,...

  Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next is a new book that makes the case that successful cities in the future will be airport-centric.  One of the authors is John Kasarda, the godfather of the aerotropolis and a...

Bernal Smith, the always thoughtful publisher of the Tri-State Defender recently wrote his reasons for voting for school consolidation: Previously, I detailed the underlying facts of school consolidation and the MCS charter...

As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tries to strip away the collective bargaining rights of public-sector unions, many liberals have latched onto the idea that his real goal is to dismantle the labor movement and the...

Our very own Youth Villages is used to getting attention from national awards to mentions by the First Lady.  This week, it was featured in a New York Times blog: It’s difficult to change systems even when they are widely...

Harvard economist and New York times columnist Ed Glaeser speaks at noon Thursday at Leadership Memphis’s Community luncheon at University of Memphis Holiday Inn.  Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce this week gives a preview...

By Robert Reich Wisconsin is in a showdown. Washington is headed for a government shutdown. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won’t budge. He insists on delivering a knockout blow to public unions in his state (except for...

In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in...

Cleveland Skateboard Park NEXT STEPS Budget Approval and Development City council will vote on the entire budget that includes the skateboard park. Read more about the city’s view of the park. Project Information Skate Surface...