The public square is the meeting ground where people make society happen. In these spaces, physical or metaphorical or digital, we work through our shared dramas and map our collective hopes. Ideally, the public square provides room to solve the problems we face. It is also where new, thorny issues often arise. This “Up for Discussion” is part of Zócalo’s editorial and events series spotlighting the ideas, places, and questions that have shaped the public square Zócalo has created over the past...
The public square is the meeting ground where people make society happen. In these spaces, physical or metaphorical or digital, we work through our shared dramas and map our collective hopes. Ideally, the public square provides room to solve the problems we face. It is also where new, thorny issues often arise. This “Up for Discussion” is part of Zócalo’s editorial and events series spotlighting the ideas, places, and questions that have shaped the public square Zócalo has created over the past...
TROY, Ohio (WDTN) -- Following the success of a previous mural, Troy Main Street will soon install a new mural in the Public Square. Approved during a Troy Planning Commission meeting last week, a new "selfie mural" will be placed in the Public Square. The mural will replace a popular mural that was used to []
It was the angry-sounding response of the buyer that should cause concern within the community.
'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says
Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page. Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day, said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers. Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche, he added. This is just igniting it further. Canada has become ground...
The former prime minister is teaching us a lot about narcissism in her new memoir, and it’s hard to tear your eyes awayLiz Truss’s memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, first penetrated the nation’s consciousness with her reflections on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. “Why me?” the former prime minister wrote. “Why now?” It was actually pretty funny, the depth and shamelessness of her narcissism; so funny, in fact, that I felt that, somewhere along the line, she had been stitched up by an editor....
HORNELL, N.Y. (WETM) -- The City of Hornell's Union Square Park and the agencies that worked on it were recognized with a public works award. According to the City of Hornell, the Western New York branch of the American Public Works Association (APWA) gave the 2023 Project of the Year Award to the Union Square []
Delays, cancellations and strikes - the UK's railways are in a mess. But both parties' solutions for fixing the nation's rail network are flawed, argues Guy Taylor
New studies claim that the absence of news content on Facebook has undermined political discourse on the platform.
By David Southwell for Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:15 EDT, April 13, 2024 | Updated: 00:17 EDT, April 13, 2024 A councilor has scrapped plans to name a new park after Licorice Allsorts' locomotive because it fears the branding could be "racially offensive".The City of Sydney planned to name the new facility on Rothschild Ave in the inner-city suburb of Rosebery Allsorts Park in recognition of the...
A council has scrapped plans to name a new park after Licorice Allsorts lollies due to concerns the branding would be 'racially offensive'.