Excellent questions. Those of us who cover or have covered local government know the local land use regs extremely well. The problem is the massive decline of local media and the alleged local media that buy national content and don’t cover local government. If your local media is owned by Sinclair, you’re screwed. Where I live now, the local media has a 3-person staff that understands land use, but is in bed with the EDA so is noticeably biased.
Other question or advice am seeking: which is better at getting you facts to digest? I used to use google alerts tons, then google reader (and rss), then back to google alerts, they FaceBook caught on (which I detest), and dropped all my google alerts, and now a mishmash of branded news apps, including Substack, WordPress, Beehive, etc., and including back to an RSS aggregator, so looking to simplify, but boil down things, be more efficient with my doom scrolling! lol.
If you can, go to (or watch if they record and post) some of your local planning commission, city council/county board and other local committee meetings. They can be boring but will immerse you in the vernacular and make you a more critical reader/ observer.
Yes, dude, awesome! Ask the right freakin’ questions even if the public does not absorb it all. Keep true to yourself, and your methods to communicating effectively. Do the research, don’t shy away from the effort.
Excellent questions. Those of us who cover or have covered local government know the local land use regs extremely well. The problem is the massive decline of local media and the alleged local media that buy national content and don’t cover local government. If your local media is owned by Sinclair, you’re screwed. Where I live now, the local media has a 3-person staff that understands land use, but is in bed with the EDA so is noticeably biased.
Keep the questions and education coming.
You are so subversive… in so many great ways. Love it
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Other question or advice am seeking: which is better at getting you facts to digest? I used to use google alerts tons, then google reader (and rss), then back to google alerts, they FaceBook caught on (which I detest), and dropped all my google alerts, and now a mishmash of branded news apps, including Substack, WordPress, Beehive, etc., and including back to an RSS aggregator, so looking to simplify, but boil down things, be more efficient with my doom scrolling! lol.
If you can, go to (or watch if they record and post) some of your local planning commission, city council/county board and other local committee meetings. They can be boring but will immerse you in the vernacular and make you a more critical reader/ observer.
Yes, dude, awesome! Ask the right freakin’ questions even if the public does not absorb it all. Keep true to yourself, and your methods to communicating effectively. Do the research, don’t shy away from the effort.