Center's
mission, agenda profiled in S.C. newspaper
DEC. 13 , 2009 - The Center for a Better
South's mission to develop progressive ideas, policies and information
for thinking Southern leaders is profiled in a long story in today's issue
of The Post and Courier, based in Charleston, S.C. Among the highlights
were comments by former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, Alabama publisher
Brandt Ayers and the Center's Leo Fishman. Read
full story | Read
background story.
AGENDA
FOR A BETTER SOUTH
In November 2009, more than two dozen
Southern thinkers met at Davidson College to develop a pragmatic Agenda
for a Better South for Southern leaders to use to make things better.
Read the Agenda.
2009
BRIEFING BOOK ON THE SOUTH
As a way to prepare participants
for the 2009 conference at Davidson, the Center developed a 70-page
briefing book with more than 50 pages of statistics about the 11 states
of the South. Take
a look -- you might find it helpful.
ABOUT
THE CENTER
The Center for a Better South's
mission to develop progressive ideas, policies and information for
thinking leaders who want to make a difference in the American South.
Click here to learn more about who we are
and what we do.
RECENTLY
AT THE CENTER Op-ed:
An agenda to improve the South
JAN. 31, 2010 -- Instead of solutions for addressing big problems, many
Southern leaders today seem to kowtow to increasing partisanship and offer
small sound bites for big problems. It doesn't have to be so. (Athens
(Ga.) Banner-Herald)
Center
challenges South with bold new visions
NOV. 19, 2009 -- The Center for a Better
South today released a major regional vision to challenge Southern legislators
and leaders on ways to move the region forward to have significant and
meaningful impacts on Southerners' lives.
