Residents of District 7, which covers Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, and Hamilton Heights, are joining New York City’s annual participatory budgeting process, through which ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...

When I look at the gorgeous libraries in the annual Library Design Showcase, I always wonder what happened behind the scenes that led to a particular design. I’m especially curious how designers ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. On a Tuesday evening in April, one of the first pleasant ...

Through the dry-sounding Participatory Budgeting Project, Shari Davis is pushing a quietly radical idea: Democracy shouldn’t be confined to voting. Where issues like voter suppression, gerrymandering ...

The heart of our community is Downtown Boulder. This is where, in some 40 square blocks and in over 3,000,000 square feet, people find churches, offices, services, banks, stores, restaurants, hotels, ...

Students in several Queens Neighborhoods will soon get the opportunity to decide how more than two million dollars will be used in their schools. Concilmember Elizabeth Crowley whose district includes ...

Sacramentans could soon have more of a say over how they’d like the city to spend taxpayer dollars, after City Council decided on Tuesday they would put money from the city’s general fund into a pilot ...