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A Chicago arts program preserves the city’s most famous music. It causes the most ardent supporters of arts in the schools to hesitate: “We want to give your children the blues.
”In what may initially seem a backwards idea, the Chicago School of Blues has couched a message of positivity in a program that [...]

Co.exist
Without an Internet connection or robust smartphones, many people around the world don’t have access to instantaneous information. Question Box–a mobile phone connected to an operator–can help villagers from settling bar bets to answering serious questions about health and farming.
Ask, and you shall receive. When it comes to information in [...]

As part of its mission to reduce traffic congestion and save commuters time and money, the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (TBARTA) offers an innovative school-based program to match parents and their children for carpooling.
Begun with one Pinellas County school in 2003, the TBARTA School Pool program has [...]

Co.Design
A clean energy-powered concrete canopy with curving walkways and an underwater reef has won an international design competition to replace an aging pier in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The concept, by L.A. starchitect Michael Maltzan and Oakland-based Tom Leader Studio (the landscape architects behind this great railroad park in Birmingham), is expected to supplant the [...]

Dr. Beach has once again named Sarasota’s Siesta Key Beach #1 in the U.S.!
Siesta Beach in Sarasota boasts that it has the finest and whitest sand in the world, and I cannot argue with this claim; the powdery sand is nearly pure quartz crystal.  The beautiful blue-colored water is clean and clear, making it so [...]