by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | August 30th, 2011 2:00pm CDT | 13 Comments
In keeping with our I-269 theme of the day, we’re reprising a post written by Gene Pearson: Many political leaders and grass roots organizations in Memphis today are advocating “smart growt,” “sustainable development,” and something called “new urbanism” as an answer to the ills of “urban sprawl,” which robs the core city of its vitality [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | November 21st, 2010 6:50pm CDT | Comments Off
For the second year in a row we dodged a big bullet fired by our suburban friends in Shelby county. In the words of a famous Republican… “Well, there you go again”. The bullet is none other than the Special School District authorization for the Shelby County School System, which had been introduced last year [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | November 17th, 2010 4:39pm CDT | 7 Comments
In light of our recent discussions, we’re reprising a post written by Gene Pearson: Many political leaders and grass roots organizations in Memphis today are advocating “smart growt,” “sustainable development,” and something called “new urbanism” as an answer to the ills of “urban sprawl,” which robs the core city of its vitality and extends costly [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | October 1st, 2010 12:03am CDT | 5 Comments
Many political leaders and grass roots organizations in Memphis today are advocating “smart growt,” “sustainable development,” and something called “new urbanism” as an answer to the ills of “urban sprawl,” which robs the core city of its vitality and extends costly urban services over low density settlements (can you say unfair tax?). Some people say [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | June 3rd, 2010 12:11am CDT | 3 Comments
At some point in the history of Memphis and Shelby County, local and state legislative leaders decided that “boards”, “commissions”, or “authorities” should take over some of the duties necessary to run our City and County. Some of these entities became advisory to our governments like the former Memphis & Shelby County Planning Commission (now [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | May 11th, 2010 5:35pm CDT | 3 Comments
Memphis has been called “the city of good abode” although some of its citizens would be hard pressed to agree. Recently Mayor A C Wharton announced an end to homelessness in 10 years. A very difficult quest indeed. But Memphis also has some major problems in providing safe, decent and affordable housing to citizens who [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | April 27th, 2010 12:15pm CDT | 4 Comments
For the second year in a row we dodged a big bullet fired by our suburban friends in Shelby county. In the words of a famous Republican… “Well, there you go again”. The bullet is none other than the Special School District authorization for the Shelby County School System, which had been introduced last year [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Uncategorized | January 10th, 2010 6:45am CDT | Comments Off
Whenever I tell someone that I’m a city planner, the response is either “what do you plant in the city?” or “This city sure needs some planning!” The first response owes to my north Mississippi accent, the second to the chaos of streets and land development that don’t appear to have any order other than [...]
by Gene Pearson (RSS) Transportation | December 13th, 2009 10:35pm CDT | 4 Comments
Many political leaders and grass roots organizations in Memphis today are advocating “smart growt,” “sustainable development,” and something called “new urbanism” as an answer to the ills of “urban sprawl,” which robs the core city of its vitality and extends costly urban services over low density settlements (can you say unfair tax?). Some people say [...]
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.
