STRAY-slee. Don’t feed the trolls. @SycamoreTN but opinions are mine alone.
Nashville, TN
Joined November 2010
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Estie, Meagan, and Mac enjoyed the @sycamoretn lunch today as guests of @HCAhealthcare. Great discussions about the regional differences in our state and nation. #SycamoreInstitute
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Today in Nashville, @TVAnews Board Director Beth Harwell participated in a panel for the inaugural @SycamoreTN Institute Forum. The Institute strives to help policymakers, the media, and the public understand complex issues that affect and connect TN's health and prosperity.
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Outstanding forum sponsored by the Sycamore Institute at City Winery today! Enjoyed listening to all of the speakers talk about politics and Tennessee, especially former TN House Speaker/current TVA Director Beth Harwell! TVA pleased to sponsor! @TVAnews @SycamoreTN
Great insights from @SycamoreTN’s @MandyPSpears and all the panelists at today’s summit on mental health and student success hosted by @SCORE4Schools and @nashhealthorg
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Student mental health has a direct impact on education outcomes. @sycamoreTN ’s new report explores children’s mental health services in Tennessee. We are excited to learn more when they present during our mental health symposium on April 3. sycamoreinstitutetn.org/chil…
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👉 Did you know that #Tennessee has special rules when it comes to how the state budgets for incarceration laws? If you're wondering why that is, how much Tennessee spends on incarceration, and what drives incarceration costs, our newest report explains.
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📣 Sycamore has a new report covering children's mental health services in Tennessee. While an earlier paper suggested uneven geographic access, our new report explores which state agencies offer services for struggling children and where.
Read more:
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🚨 Announcing: Sycamore's Inaugural Annual Forum
The Sycamore Institute invites you to our inaugural annual forum on May 2nd with keynote speaker Colin Woodard and special guests Beth Harwell, A C Wharton, and Ed Cromer.
Join us!
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Our love has a cost
Fiscal Review judged it.
But we’ll meet again,
Behind the budget.
#tnlegvalentines
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Executive Director @BStraessle was a guest on the new "Our New South" podcast hosted by @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII. In this episode, they discuss Southern cities' challenges regarding economic opportunity & our work to illuminate those gaps.
Listen: bit.ly/3Sl81Qd
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this is strangely heartwarming: the canadian pediatrics association now recommends that children engage in risky play—"thrilling and exciting forms of free play that involve uncertainty of outcome and a possibility of physical injury"—because of benefits e.g. to mental health
If you’ve followed Sycamore’s work on this topic, many of the key points the senators made in their report will sound VERY familiar…
A new report from a bipartisan group of Tennessee state senators draws extensively on the Sycamore Institute’s analyses and testimony about federal funding for K-12 education in our state. Read more: ⬇️
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We've heard praise from conservatives and liberals alike for @SycamoreTN's new report on firearm-related deaths in TN.
Take a few minutes to read. You won't regret it. sycamoreinstitutetn.org/fire…
There’s one proven way to make the East Bank “Nashville’s Next Great Neighborhood.” Let it develop organically over time (preferably by hundreds of small developers).
Ben is joking (for the most part) about the insufferableness, but he's on point that it's reeeeally hard for a single developer to create an entire community without dampening its soul.
No matter how well designed things are, they're exactly that: "designed".
Disney has unlimited resources and Celebration FL still has a bit of Truman Show vibe. Jim Rouse was one of our greatest developers and even his Columbia MD took decades to get a personality.
DMB is the best master-planned developer on the planet and their most appealing projects are the custom home projects where individuals create their own homes.
For vibes, "master planned" can't compete with "spontaneously evolved".
The best places unfold sequentially - one building leading to another - a coffee shop next to a bus stop then a studio with a patio in back leads to fixing up the house next door leads to a few townhomes leads to a warehouse conversion leads to galleries and tacos then a small commercial core then apartments and a hotel etc.
When a series of individual actors each react to a previous improvement places come alive.
Darn near impossible to create by force.
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Some Tennessee counties' low-income students test better on 3rd-grade reading than others'. The Sycamore Institute’s new report explores where these students perform best and which community factors might help explain why. bit.ly/3mN04ru
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By losing his purpose, he lost his essence, his spirit.
The thing that gave him his joie de vivre.
He had surmounted his biggest challenge and achieved his singular goal.
And there was nothing on the other side.
