Nice little project up at the Street Roots website this weekend, photographs of a bunch of vendors holding placards that tell us what’s important to them:

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A bit inspiring, a bit heart-breaking at the same time. The fact that everyone really wants pretty similar things, and that we’re still so woefully inadequate at providing any of them.

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.