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SOTY Revisit: Why So Many People Attend City Meetings in Lexington
December 13, 2023 · 35 min
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A Kentucky nonprofit cracked the code on getting regular people to show up to city meetings.
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In this episode
- What one nonprofit did to boost local government participation in Lexington
- Why civic engagement at the city level is so hard to sustain
- A replicable model other cities could use to involve more residents
- Context from Next City's 20 years of covering urban solutions
About this episode
Next City is turning 20! And our journalists are publishing a special 20th-anniversary edition of our annual Solutions of the Year magazine in which we’re talking about the solutions we want to see expand in cities over the next 20 years.As part of the celebration, we’re re-airing some of the stories that we’ve covered here on the podcast. Today, how a Kentucky non-profit increased participation in Lexington’s local government.
About Next City
Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked.
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