by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | March 24th, 2009 1:02am CDT | Comments Off
What we need up here might be an engineer from down under. Or at least that’s what we thought when we read about Sydney, Australia’s impressive water harvesting system. Its efforts to create water retention facilities for water are actually under the heading of “environment” rather than “engineering” on the Sydney city government website. That [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | March 8th, 2009 11:49pm CDT | Comments Off
The #1 priority of the public, according to Sustainable Shelby, is for local government to create a great public realm for our community. Memphis’ large parks are some of city government’s most elite services, according to the City of Memphis Poll. Overton Park is a 342-acre monument to the late 19th century “Greater Memphis Movement,” [...]
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.
