Month: October 2011

From National Resources Defense Council Staff Blog: Here’s what Madoff did:  He took people’s money, promising a return on investment.  In other words, he borrowed it.  But the returns weren’t real; the only way Madoff had to...

Two opportunities to focus on what’s important are coming up this weekend: The Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking, “A Living Movement Toward a World of Peace, Solidarity, and Justice,” and Livable...

From Education Week: From Education Week: By Jeffrey O. Newport I stepped outside the other morning, coffee cup in hand, to pick up the newspaper. The neighborhood kids were standing on the corner with their anxious mothers,...

By DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writer – Sep 27, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of U.S. cities have cut staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of...

It’s a favorite refrain these days of voters outside Memphis: If only Memphis would quit electing incompetent elected officials, the members of the white flight brigade would be willing to love the city that it depends on for...

From Polis Blog: “Crowdsourced Moscow 2012: A Public Space Game” (above) was shown on Monday after a panel discussion with Adam Greenfield at the Strelka Institute. This was part of Social Media Week, a series of...

Here’s an article from Phi Delta Kappan for our new school board: By Allan Odden and Lawrence O. Picus, Phi Delta Kappan Education budgets are imploding at the fiscal seams. A sluggish economy and falling property values...

A reprise from January, 2010: While Memphis has never been categorized as an old industrial city, it’s always had similarities – deep urban challenges, grittiness and demographics – that give us more in common with these cities...

from Columbia Journalism Review: A Washington Post examination of how “peers” inflate CEO pay By Ryan Chittum Companies tend to try to pay their employees as little as possible without killing morale and suffering high turnover....

From Phi Delta Kappan: By Morgaen L. Donaldson and Susan Moore Johnson, Phi Delta Kappan Few observers doubt that Teach For America (TFA) has high aspirations. Established in 1990, TFA strives to close persistent racial and...