The award, which will be presented at a gala dinner in New York in October, "recognizes individuals who courageously promote democratic values, defend religious freedom and reinvigorate informed civic participation," according to the announcement.
But that kind of black-and-white storytelling often misses all the complications, contradictions and complexities that are essential to the kind of informed civic conversation about police-community relations that Baltimore desperately needs.
And that role, the series demonstrates, is not only to stir personal faith but also to inform civic values and political decisions.
But how different is the mood of that distant time — the century when the American colonies were established — from ours? Uglow allows this question to hover, deliciously, on the periphery of a narrative that regularly departs from strict biography to delineate the conflicts brewing in Restoration England, leaving us to ponder the ways they still inform civic life today.
Ms. Dolan loved museums and good food, and enjoyed exploring neighborhoods all over the city, often studying their architecture and building codes, which helped informed her civic activism and expertise on zoning issues, Ms. Stegmaier said.
In time, though, the initial estimate escalated as decisions were informed by politics, civic pride and jealousy — emotions rather than dollars and sense.
Far from constricting the information flows that are essential to economic dynamism and well-informed civic discourse, an innovation like this would raise the quality of telephone communications, while reducing their sheer numbers.
The three of us are researchers of education interested in how to prepare youth for well-informed civic participation.
How do you sell your house in a poverty zone?" The organizers of the meeting, members of the Informed Voices Civic Association, vowed that their forum would not end in yelling as another meeting on the issue did earlier this month.
This sense of political justice and civic responsibility informed his life as a citizen, too.
That path is neither perfect nor easy, but it would nonetheless be breathtaking in its ensuring a skilled workforce, informed citizenry and robust civic life.
