by Smart City Radio (RSS) Uncategorized | October 8th, 2010 3:27pm CDT | Comments Off
With the highly successful opening of the Greenline, the priority by the Wharton Administration to add bike lanes to city streets, and the emerging green ethos in Memphis, it’s a good time to revisit this Smart City interview from April 16, 2009. How do you create green space in one of the most industrial states [...]
by Smart City Radio (RSS) Uncategorized | July 31st, 2010 12:55pm CDT | 1 Comment
Have you ever considered biking to work instead of driving, or taking the stairs instead of the elevator? A partnership, called “Go Vibrant Cincinnati” is encouraging residents to do just that. “Go Vibrant Cincinnati,” a coalition of more than 25 Cincinnati-based organizations, is the first-of-its-kind civic partnership to make Cincinnati one of the top 10 [...]
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.
