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Gonzales Youth Council members, past and present. Photo by Joe Mathews
GONZALES
COLUMN The Best City Council Never Grows Up
A Small Town's Powerful Youth Council Turns 10—And Opens a $28 Million Center
Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE
COLUMN Building Friendship on Political Disagreement
An Appreciation of Joel Fox and Friends
Image credit Asia Democracy Chronicles
FAIRVIEW, PHILIPPINES
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How Data Centers Concern Communities
The Contest to Become Southeast Asia's Top Center Burdens Locals in Power Prices and Emissions
Image credit: Rewrite LA
LOS ANGELES
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
COLUMN: Dear Police Chief, Why Do You Want Me to Join a Gang?
By Foreclosing Legal Responses to Officer Abuses, A City's Top Cop Encourages Lawlessness
PANGASINAN, PHILIPPINES
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: How to Count the Absent
Southeast Asia Rights Advocates Are Forcibly Disappeared; Impunity Makes Monitoring Difficult
NAPERVILLE
ZÓCALO: When Immigration Agents Come to the Suburbs
Raids and Deportations Upended My Sense of Safety. But My Community Fights Back
WASHINGTON DC
ZOCALO Theater in DC Is More Than the Kennedy Center
But Its Struggles Affect an Artistic Ecosystem
ROCHESTER
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: Lessons of a Translation Pilot in a Public Forum
Photo credit: LAPD, 2022
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN: The 50-Year-Old Police Chokehold We Can't Escape
A Court Precedent Defending LA Police Abuses Now Defends Federal Raids on Its People
LOS ANGELES
REPORT: Land Use Decision-Making in the LA City Charter
Resident Priorities From the Rewrite LA Mini-Assembly