by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | September 4th, 2008 11:44pm CDT | Comments Off
While Memphis City Council gets all the attention for its new policy on Memphis City Schools funding, Shelby County Board of Commissioners has also changed the budgetary playing field for public education. Apparently, financial watchdogs for the districts didn’t notice a change in the traditional way that county government funds Memphis City Schools and Shelby [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | September 3rd, 2008 10:19pm CDT | Comments Off
More and more, we wonder how deep the hole can get before Memphis has no chance of getting out of it. It was a question we asked again in light of recent updates of Memphis demographic information by the U.S. Census Bureau. It was yet another deafening wake-up call to deal with the deepening, intractable [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | September 1st, 2008 6:16pm CDT | Comments Off
Shelby County Commissioner Mike Carpenter’s six-week school funding conversation has reached consensus, and it’s pretty hard to argue with most of the conclusions. After a process that included meetings, online questions, letters and phone calls, the consensus was: • Our community needs a single source of funding for schools – Shelby County Government. • State [...]
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 →
Photograph by Amie Vanderford
This ongoing series of photographs is intended to show the daily lives of these single mothers in order to invoke recognition of their similarities to all mothers, along with understanding and empathy from the viewer of the strengths that these single mothers possess within the challenging situations they face. My hope is that newfound empathy with these mothers’ lives will give people some pause before they condemn single mothers when discussing issues such as welfare and other politically charged hot buttons.
