This weekly look at what’s coming up in local government is sponsored by the Piedmont Environmental Council
At the heart of it, the purpose of Town Crier Productions is to present information about policy choices coming up before local officials. A prominent conviction during my entire 30-year career in journalism is that community members understand more when they look first to local government before turning on the national news.
In a healthy democracy, people should be able to get information about what’s happening from third-party sources not directly connected to the government. I spent eleven years working for an organization originally created to deliver information on how land use planning worked until there was a management shift and I stepped away.
My work is not recognized in a recent local study by the Karsh Institute of Democracy of the news ecosystem. You can see here on this interactive map…