A questionnaire was sent to the candidates for the offices of County Mayor, Assessor, Trustee, Environmental Court Judge, and all County Commission positions throughout Shelby County. Some of their responses are now available to voters.
“Our questionnaire is really wanting to understand those who are running for public office: How will you prioritize and support neighborhood issues?” says Deveney Perry, executive director of BLDG Memphis.
“The Corners is a design change along the Heights Line route. It’s meant to be more of a lingering space — kind of like a gathering public space, as opposed to a path,” says Dane Forlines, director of special projects for the Heights Community Development Corporation.
“Thanks to the support of partners like THDA, we are able to help more families build strength, stability, self-reliance and shelter,” Dwayne Spencer, president & CEO of Habitat Memphis, says in a statement.
Photographer Reginald Johnson visits the Orange Mound Arts Council and documents their theater camp for teens.
“I never grew up thinking I was going to be the owner of a driving school,” says Teresa Landrum-Caswell, founder of the Caswell Group Driving School. But Landrum-Caswell identified a need in her community and supplied it. We ask her all about it.
A new Michigan project is engaging community-based organizations to gather information on, and develop solutions to, disparities in ER follow-up care.
"When a school building closes, in many ways that becomes a dagger to the heart of hope for a community," says Chris Lambert, founder and CEO of Life Remodeled. "And schools don’t close overnight, but rather as the result of decades of disinvestment, which in Detroit, is directly linked to issues of systemic racism."
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