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  • Oct 07, 2026 — Cities across the country are confronting one of the defining questions of our era: Who has the power to decide how a city prepares for – and survives – climate change? And New Orleans is a city that lives on the direct shoreline of that question. It...

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    Mayor Helena Moreno is closing financial deficits while supporting civic and cultural infrastructure
  • Sep 30, 2026 — Danielle Bergstrom began her career as a city planner. That work, which she did in Fresno for 10 years, put her up close and personal with the goings-ons of City Hall. And seeing the “sausage making” there, as she says, convinced her that city...

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    Danielle Bergstrom is building a newsroom around transparency
  • Sep 23, 2026 — More than 200,000 immigrant farmworkers power Central California's agricultural industry, including over 60,000 people from many diverse and distinct Indigenous Mexican communities. Across those communities, more than 16 unique Indigenous Mexican...

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    Dr. Sarait Martinez is leading with language justice
  • Sep 16, 2026 — Hugo Morales grew up picking produce in the farm fields of Fresno with his family. When he returned to Fresno after college, he saw that his community – the Central Valley’s half-million Latino farmworkers – barely had radio in their own language, much...

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    Hugo Morales is preserving culture and protecting community over the airwaves
  • Sep 09, 2026 — Fresno, California is smack-dab in the middle of the state, a city surrounded by farmland, seen by many as just the half-way point between San Francisco and Los Angeles. But Fresno is the 9th most diverse city in the nation. And its population and...

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    Mayor Jerry Dyer is building Fresno’s economy beyond the farm
  • Jul 29, 2026 — Anna McQuiston says the MidSouth is at a tipping point. While the region – which comprises 6 counties and 38 cities across West Tennessee, East Arkansas, and North Mississippi – has been facing population loss, it also has potential for upwards of...

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    Anna McQuiston is Toppling Barriers to Collaboration in the MidSouth
  • Jul 22, 2026 — Most real estate developers have dollar signs in their eyes. But in the rare instance when the developers actually come from the communities being redeveloped, they are able to see the equations very differently. This is the case for father-daughter...

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    Archie Willis and Alex Willis-Boddie are Restoring Neighborhood Anchors
  • Jul 15, 2026 — There’s a two-mile corridor along Walker Avenue in South Memphis that Marlon Foster calls The Knowledge Quest Kid Zone. It’s a multi-site neighborhood campus dedicated to holistically and measurably improving the lives of South Memphis kids and the...

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    Marlon Foster is Stabilizing Families in South Memphis
  • Jul 08, 2026 — Memphis is a city with serious momentum and serious ambition. Neighborhoods that were written off are being reinvested. Families who have been here for generations are choosing to stay and build. Leaders across sectors are making long-term bets on the...

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    Mayor Paul Young is Fighting for Memphis Families
  • Jun 02, 2026 — When a $6 billion bridge comes to your neighborhood, who decides what the residents get in return? Simone Sagovac and the community-elected Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition have spent nearly 20 years ensuring that the answer is written by...

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    Simone Sagovac is Organizing for Community Benefits
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