Month: June 2011

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The American higher-education system has long been seen as a leader in the world, but confidence in its future and its enduring value may be beginning to crack along economic lines,...

From Mother Jones: Why “efficiency” and “productivity” really mean more profits for corporations and less sanity for you. In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. This huge...

Dear Diane, “They never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of
 education,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently said of the poor. “The old Norman Rockwell family is...

  Memphians have often called their hometown a city of great neighborhoods. And yet, for every thriving Cooper-Young, there are neighborhoods clinging to life like New Chicago, Smokey City, and Bearwater. There is much...

Dear Fellow Memphian: We have corresponded in the past about city issues.  The city is facing a severe budgetary problem, and I need your input. The mayor’s budget proposed 125 layoffs and a 4.6% pay cut for all city...

We were asked about Councilman Kemp Conrad’s budget proposal, so we’re posting his email from yesterday which includes the link to his proposal: Dear fellow Memphian: Due to the lack of the political will over the...

There’s one fact that Americans take for granted, it’s that other people want to live here. As President Barack Obama noted in his speech on immigration earlier this week, the U.S. has always attracted strivers from...

From Grist:  Part of what makes great places great is ecological sustainability. So what’s the best way to reduce our per-capita resource footprint? Typically you hear one of two stories. One is about technology: making...