Parc Sur La Teche offers public access to the bayou with walking paths that invite slow strolls rather than power walks, because rushing beside a bayou misses the entire point of being beside a bayou.

A superstar team of architects and developers insisted on an all-white concrete facade. It could explain some of the building’s problems.

It has been a practice of homeless people and those with low or no incomes to gather outside the Minnie Hackney Community Service Center in downtown Joplin on Saturday mornings where a volunteer group ...