Local: The New Politics of Place
Why every meaningful political change in the last decade started inside a 90-minute drive of someone's house.
Read → Food for thought
Twelve things to put on the bedside table this month.
Reading list curated by Coalition members. Updated the first Monday of every month. Suggestions welcome — we have a working group of three people who read so you don’t have to.
The County Commission Is The Climate Plan
A reported piece on how five Florida counties are quietly out-pacing Tallahassee on coastal resilience.
Read →You're Wrong About: Local Politics Edition
A loving takedown of the "all politics is national" assumption, with a real Florida case study from Hillsborough.
Listen →How To Read A County Budget
The most boring title on this list and the most useful book on it. 184 pages. Includes a glossary.
Read →Anatomy of a Public Comment
Imani Reyes walks through how to write a 3-minute county-commission public comment that actually moves a vote.
Watch →The Sign-In Sheet Is The Work
A profile of three local coalitions in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Florida — including a small chunk on us.
Read →On The Media: Civic Imagination
What the local newspaper closure crisis means for civic life, and the volunteer-reporting models filling the gap.
Listen →Democracy In One Book or Less
A friendly tour of the entire US electoral apparatus, with a chapter on Florida's peculiarities specifically.
Read →How A Bill Becomes a Law (FL Edition)
A short, watchable explainer of how a bill moves through Tallahassee. Bring it up at Thanksgiving.
Watch →The Mail-In Ballot Is The Future
Why mail-in voting expansion correlates more with turnout than with partisan outcomes. A useful counter for skeptical relatives.
Read →The Daily: When Local Newsrooms Die
A reported piece on what happens when a county loses its paper. Spoiler: turnout drops. So does accountability.
Listen →Coalition Politics from the Ground Up
Self-published, 96 pages, $9. Yvette wrote the book on running a Tuesday-night meeting. Pun intended.
Read →Read something good lately?
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