The Tides Foundation – known especially for their work in fiscal sponsorship – launched their first blog recently with a post titled “Why Does Infrastructure Matter?” Ellen Friedman, the Tides Executive VP, writes:
“If we don’t pay attention to the infrastructure we are putting in place to support the work necessary to implement our visions, the [...]

If you’re looking for signs of the emergence of “Government 2.0″, you may want to focus your energies at the municipal scale. In the last year or so, several cities have begun offering up much of their data to the public, free of charge. Most of those releases have been aimed specifically at programmers and [...]

An unsettlingly large number of the over 2 million people who are incarcerated in the US come from just a few small swaths of this country’s urban areas. Known as “million dollar blocks”, these neighborhoods are places where states spend over a million dollars to jail inmates – places where the most visible and active [...]