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Aspen, Colorado, city hall. Photo by Joe Mathews
NAIROBI
NEWSLETTER: Facts Won't Save Democracy; Nor Will Voting; City Twin on Fire
Also: 'Allocracy," Ukraine Farming, Municipal Mandates Exceed Borders
Bjarney Högnadóttir and her husband are opening the first grocery store after the evacuation
GRINDAVIK (ICELAND)
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Grindavik
Icelandic Harbor City, Evacuated After Volcanic Eruption, May Come Back
LOS ANGELES
REPORT: Land Use Decision-Making in the LA City Charter
Resident Priorities From the Rewrite LA Mini-Assembly
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
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