There have been some startling examples recently of public meetings that have gone off the rails. City council and school board meetings convened to discuss vaccine and mask mandates have...
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This saying, first used by Sir Winston Churchill in the mid-1940s as we were approaching the end of World War II, might...
Franklin, TN applied for and was recognized as an All-America City in 2020. The community was recognized for the strength of its civic capital as well as for community-driven projects...
Located in the Chihuahuan Desert, the arid climate of El Paso, Texas is a stressor on energy systems and puts the city at risk for sustainability challenges like drought. These...
With federal dollars filtering down through CARES, ARPA and a future infrastructure bill, this is an ideal opportunity for cities and counties to engage residents and other community stakeholders in...
The late magazine writer Janet Malcolm once began an essay with the following sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is...
For over a year the world has read daily headlines containing the latest numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. While much of the focus is on...
You’ve probably heard of the term “food deserts,” generally speaking, an area of a town or city where there are few, if any, places for people to buy nutritious food....
Schoolhouse Rock educated a generation of Americans through short films on topics from grammar to science and math. Most notably, the ‘America’ series offered education (and entertainment) on a broad...
