Larry James' Urban Daily

 

Any way you cut it, as a nation, we now face a huge opportunity to strengthen our country, to include more neighbors, to prepare our grandch...

Spoken word, crafted on the spot at our annual retreat by Michael Guinn, from CitySquare staff's single word descriptions  of the CitySq...

The following post comes from one of our  Case Managers at the Cottages  (CitySquare's "tiny homes" community):      There is ...

1.  Gun deregulation to the extreme places more weapons on the streets of cities and in the hands of extremists.  People die. 2.  Evictions ...

The notion of being "offended" by Jesus interests me.  Jesus' words in Luke 7:23  pull me up short:  " And blessed is any...

So, I've faced it:  I've been working on this job for a long time!  And, it's time to shift gears and think carefully about the ...

Notes for speech to Dallas Rotary Club February 3, 2021   ·       Thank you for having me today.  It’s an honor to be with you!  ·  ...

It has become so commonplace that we awake to the same news virtually every day.   We expect it.   Black people  have good reason to be afra...

Certainty turns out to be largely elusive in these times.   But, not completely.  Values-- bedrock, non-negotiable, pre-selected--values off...

 

This just in from our friends at the DFW Hospital Council:   The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council wants to remind you of public health con...

Reliable postal service in urban neighborhoods anchors vital communications, business enterprise and community organizing.  Of course, the s...

So simple.  Yet, so obvious.   Problem is, I seldom think correctly about the urban "poor."   I don't see clearly.   I rush to...

Incidents over the last week. . . Walking out of a downtown building, I noticed an elderly woman seated on a comfortable bench waiting for...