The Japanese Friendship Garden area has been a place where families gathered for generations. Around 1900, local women formed the Village Improvement Society. The best-known VIS activity was city beautification creating “oases of green in the brown desert”. In 1904, they purchased the property on both sides of the river for $1. This was the […]
There’s a long history of effective public-sector infrastructure investments and services being implemented in the region programs some conservatives might deride as socialism and working exceedingly well.