Budget Committee! analyzes school district finances, focusing on school closure plans, enrollment trends and municipal budget politics in specific districts such as Bellingham, Little Rock and DeKalb County. Each issue pairs narrative analysis with a podcast episode and appendix briefs containing detailed district data.

Detailed coverage of Ottawa's transit system, including Transit Committee meeting recaps, Stage 2 LRT progress, and route-level service reliability snapshots built from OC Transpo data. It holds OC Transpo and city politicians accountable on reliability, funding and planning.

A Vermont-based creator publishes comics alongside personal essays, humorous anecdotes and local political and economic commentary. Readers get rural life stories, state policy explainers with data and sources, and occasional video profiles of candidates.

Local news coverage of Putnam Valley, New York, including town board budget sessions, candidate forums and election-related reporting. Readers get detailed accounts of municipal decisions and local campaigns that larger outlets rarely cover.