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The Spoke Folks increase access to bicycle transportation through funding from Grand Rapids Community Foundation
by (GRCommFound)
Submitted 07-14-2015 under NONPROFITS
Most job applications ask the same question: Do you have access to reliable transportation? The Spoke Folks, a nonprofit bicycle co-op, want every member of our community equipped to check “YES” with confidence. The Spoke...
Catalyst Radio: Food bank use increasing, according to Feeding America report
by (Catalyst Radio)
Submitted 08-22-2014 under NEWS
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure. INTERVIEW In this episode of Catalyst Radio we focus on Hunger in America, and more specifically, in West Michigan. The hunger-relief organization Feeding...
Catalyst Radio: Brian J. Bowe, on the state of journalism
by (Catalyst Radio)
Submitted 04-13-2012 under NEWS
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure. INTERVIEW In this edition of Catalyst Radio we talk about the mission of journalism with Brian J. Bowe, a professor of journalism at Grand Valley State...
Has the divide gone mobile?
by (LCirivello)
Submitted 03-29-2011 under OPINION
From the Rapidian staff Quite recently, I was reading through the Predictions for Journalism 2011 series on the Nieman Journalism Lab website. Once again, many are claiming this is to be the “year of mobile.” Hardly earth-shattering as this...
Downtown Alliance ups cool factor with mobile site
by (LCirivello)
Submitted 11-20-2010 under OPINION
Grand Rapids' Downtown Alliance has launched a new DowntownGR Mobile website. The site, for use with web-enabled phones, is intended to provide an easy way for people on-the-go to find places to eat, locations to shop and...
Foursquare moves from the schoolyard, to cyberspace.
by (Madprankster)
Submitted 02-01-2010 under OPINION
When I was younger, I played a game called Four Square during recess at my elementary school. The goal of the game was to obtain the primary square and remain there as long as possible before being eliminated and bumped down to the lowest square...