Building the case for urban innovation labs
- January 4, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / community-dashboard
The Aspen Institute reports about the annual event bringing together mayors and innovators from across the globe, called CityLab.
Middle grades to high school: fixing the weak link
- January 4, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
With so much attention directed toward kindergarten readiness and high school graduation rates, middle schools are often left out of the education debate.
Research review: Mentoring's effectiveness varies
- January 3, 2016
- / Guest Contributor
- / education
Nearly all of these studies report some positive outcomes associated with these programs, including those that report better outcomes with education and work, mental health, problem behavior and health, but the effects tend to be small.
Making mentoring's impact matter
- January 3, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
In the Pensacola Young Professionals Quality of Life survey, 48 percent of people said volunteering or mentoring a student is the best way to boost the school system’s performance. So what is the community prepared to do?
Shannon's Window: An investment we can live with
- January 3, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
Helping people make better health choices isn't only good for the waistline — it's good business' bottom line.
Mobile downtown airport expects to get busy
- January 2, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / economy
Airbus has garnered most of the attention at the Brookley site, but a lot is going on at the Mobile Downtown Airport, which is doing some $39 million in construction work in part because of Airbus.
Motivational quotes that will inspire you to succeed in 2016
- January 1, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / studer-community-institute
25 things you need to let go before the new year
- December 31, 2015
- / Ron Stallcup
- / leadership-tips
Consolidation concerns still hover
- December 31, 2015
- / Rod Duren
- / economy
A previous base closing and realignment raised the possibility of consolidating helicopter pilot training, and the issue never seems to go away despite past rejections of the move.
Turning mom's question into an empire
- December 31, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Bert and John Jacobs founded Life is Good thanks in part to their mom's dinner table routine.