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GWANGJU
NEWSLETTER: Does Your Local Constitution Need a Preamble?
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LOS ANGELLES
Everyday People Will Get Paid to Design Their Own City Council
Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly
LOS ANGELES
REPORT: Land Use Decision-Making in the LA City Charter
Resident Priorities From the Rewrite LA Mini-Assembly
DECATUR
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: How Local Volunteers Changed the City Charter
One-Third of Decatur's Charter Commission Were Community Members Selected by Sortition
HONG KONG
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Fire to Remember
Hong Kong's Deadliest Fire in Decades Exposed Corruption—and Civil Society's Resilience
YOFF
LOCAL SNAPSHOT: Mayor Seydina Issa Laye Samb
'Every public franc spent must have a measurable impact on the lives of citizens'
WARDHA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Global Cotton, Local Pain
In India's Suicide Belt, Tariffs Push Farmers to the Brink
SAN LUIS POTOSI
AWARDS: Our 3 Local Governments of the Year
San Luis Potosí, Mexico; Setagaya District, Tokyo; and Gothenburg, Sweden Share Inaugural Prize
PASADENA
Top 10 California Columns of the Year
A Sub-Nation Leaves Its Country
KATHMANDU
AWARDS: Meet Democracy Local's Mayor of the Year
''The World Cannot Come Between Us'
RAJOURI DISTRICT
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: From Allies to Enemies
Modi Turns on Tribes Once Considered the Indian State's Eyes & Ears in Contested Kashmir
ALTADENA
COLUMN: How Local Fire Victims Can Take Control of Recovery
A New Kind of Government, the Climate Resilience District, Can Bring Focus—and Money