Posts by Ashley Thornton
Entrepreneurs of Waco: Bambino’s Baby Food coming to town?
By Michelle Nosrat When most of us think of baby food, we think of unappetizing cans full of pureed carrots and peas. Zoi Maroudas, a Baylor alumnus and mother, has set out to change this stigma and bring baby food into the 21st century with her company, Bambinos Baby Food. Maroudas, who moved from Greece…
Read MorePart 4: Three reasons I don’t believe payday loans should be restricted in Waco.
by Lisa Dickison (Note: This is Part 4 in a series on Pay Day lending and its effect on our Waco community. For the rest of the series, click here: Pay Day Lending in Waco. — ABT) Reason 1: The label “predatory” for Payday loans is an exaggeration. A predator in the animal kingdom is…
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolutions for College Students
By Diego Loredo It’s almost 2016 and it’s about that time of year where everyone starts to think of some New Year’s resolutions. I personally don’t make any because I usually don’t end up sticking to them, but this time it’s different. These are really my own personal New Year’s resolutions for college but some…
Read MoreThanks Waco Voters – for Recognizing our Potential and Investing in our Future!
by Kaleigh Huser As a junior in high school, I am sorting through those “next step” questions about what type of career I will pursue and where I will attend college. When I was younger, I wanted to be a teacher; I also considered marine biology. As of today, I have abandoned the idea of…
Read MorePart 3: Pay Day Lending and the Role of Local Government
by Jim Coston (Note: This is Part 3 in a series on Pay Day lending and its effect on our Waco community. For the rest of the series, click here: Pay Day Lending in Waco. — ABT) I had the privilege of serving as a City Councilman in Trenton, New Jersey, prior to coming to…
Read MoreDine on 3: Healthy Holiday Meals
By Meilana Charles (Note: This post is a part of “Dine on 3,” a new initiative through Prairie View A&M University Cooperative Extension Program. Dine on 3 will use social media outlets to encourage family units to prepare and share home cooked meals more regularly. The initiative’s objectives are to encourage home cooked family meal…
Read MorePart 2: Payday & Auto Title Lending – Stories from the Community
By Alexis Christensen I’ve long been drawn to understanding how governmental systems work—whether it’s politics, civic engagement or policy. Often we think about law or policies from an impersonal perspective, but in reality, they can be very personal. In Part One of this series we learned about the devastating effects payday and auto title lending…
Read MoreArt as Action: Creating Responses to Current Events
by Jenuine Poetess One of the oldest motivations of creativity is as a response to political circumstances and social justice issues. It is not the only inspiration, by any means, and not all artists engage their discipline in this way. Within the context of the mission and vision of Act Locally Waco the Arts &…
Read MorePart 1: Developing the Right Solutions to the Problem of Payday Lending
By Dillon Meek There has been a lot of talk lately (at least in my world) about payday and auto title loans and how our community should respond to the presence of this industry in our community (assuming there should be a response at all). This is the first post, in a series of posts,…
Read MoreBe part of the Prosper Waco conversation in your neighborhood
By Matthew Polk Last Tuesday, we had the opportunity to have dinner and conversation with community members in East Waco about how they would achieve the Prosper Waco goals in their community. The Prosper Waco community engagement council and the Northeast Riverside Neighborhood Association partnered to bring the Prosper Waco dialogue to East Waco. Some…
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