"Local Politics" Blogs & Blog Posts

When you think of town meetings in most American communities, those interstitial scenes from Parks & Recreation might come to mind — lots of random mundane rantings and ramblings from various constituents that are at once tedious and hilarious...

The laws of supply and demand aren’t working for local news. The local news business was devastated by COVID-19, even though consumers wanted more of its product. Visits to local news websites spiked by 89 percent from February to March 2020, b...

The plot came to law enforcement's attention when a man reported a group had tried to recruit him to the plan, Ohio's WSYX reported.

At a public meeting in Leelanau County, Michigan on Tuesday, a road commissioner casually used the n-word while making excuses for not wearing a mask. Is it a stretch to use racism to excuse unnecessarily putting other people’s health at risk durin...

A new law in Illinois will promote a more LGBTQ-inclusive history curricula in schools across the state. The measure goes into effect in July of next year. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed the legislation into law on Friday. The bill, which pas...

A Republican government official in Florida joked about running over protesters outside of President Donald Trump’s rally in Orlando next Tuesday, where Trump will officially announce his 2020 re-election campaign. The joke, which evoked painful me...

It was the wee hours of Sunday, and Julien Broomfield was still angry about a conversation she’d had with some friends the previous day. As they cruised through northwest Washington, D.C., one of her friends had mentioned the absence of go-go m...