A Vigo County, Indiana writer examines local and state housing deregulation and campaign finance, connecting small-town politics to national patterns. The newsletter offers sourced local reporting and personal essays on civic life.
Website: https://www.footnotesfromthemiddle.org/
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.
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.
Board Rule covers the Chicago Board of Education and the city's first elected school board races, including campaign finance, candidate backers and district profiles. It also publishes a quarterly report card analyzing board meeting transcripts and decisions.
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