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Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.

Issues

What is being decided now

Tap your state to see what is being decided there. Below the map, the decisions coming up soonest before the county commissions, city councils and school boards SourceLine covers, with the next date and who decides.

Issues in the United States

What matters most comes first: full stories, then decisions that keep coming back, divide the board, draw residents, change how land near you is used, or move big money for the size of the place. Open decisions come before decided ones.

NationalUnited States

Voting rights and fair districtsRequiring voters to provide photo identificationOpen ›Who decides and why ›
Justice SystemRequiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody noncitizens without legal status who have been charged in the United States with theftOpen ›Who decides and why ›
Justice SystemBarring entry to, and allowing removal of, noncitizens convicted of or admitting to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking or child abuseOpen ›Who decides and why ›
Justice SystemAmending the Controlled Substances Act on the scheduling of fentanyl related substancesOpen ›Who decides and why ›

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Every issue SourceLine follows

By state

Issues by state

What we cover in each state ›
AK AL AR AZ CA80 CO FL581 GA864 HI IA ID IL63 IN KS KY20 LA16 ME MI289 MN MO29 MS MT NC11 ND NE NM NV35 NY199 OH71 OK OR PA18 SC SD TN79 TX710 UT VA WA13 WI94 WV WY
Small states and DC: VTNHMA 92RICTNJ 176DEMD 38DC 15

Local issues open. The number is how many issues we follow there.

Congress and the Black press. Every other state, until its local boards are added.

Open now California 80 issues · 3 places · 0 rising now See California issues › Open now District of Columbia 15 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See District of Columbia issues › Open now Florida 581 issues · 3 places · 0 rising now See Florida issues › Open now Georgia 864 issues · 49 places · 20 rising now See Georgia issues › Open now Illinois 63 issues · 6 places · 0 rising now See Illinois issues › Open now Kentucky 20 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See Kentucky issues › Open now Louisiana 16 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See Louisiana issues › Open now Maryland 38 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Maryland issues › Open now Massachusetts 92 issues · 1 place · 3 rising now See Massachusetts issues › Open now Michigan 289 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Michigan issues › Open now Missouri 29 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See Missouri issues › Open now Nevada 35 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See Nevada issues › Open now New Jersey 176 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See New Jersey issues › Open now New York 199 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See New York issues › Open now North Carolina 11 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See North Carolina issues › Open now Ohio 71 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Ohio issues › Open now Pennsylvania 18 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Pennsylvania issues › Open now Tennessee 79 issues · 1 place · 8 rising now See Tennessee issues › Open now Texas 710 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Texas issues › Open now Washington 13 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See Washington issues › Open now Wisconsin 94 issues · 2 places · 0 rising now See Wisconsin issues › Open now 28 issues · 1 place · 0 rising now See issues ›
Every state, in a list

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Coming up

Being decided soonest

Public money · Stonecrest, Georgia Stonecrest's 2027 budget: 114 jobs planned, 89 funded Next: Public hearing on the budget November 9 Environment and land use · DeKalb County, Georgia Data centers in DeKalb County Next: The pause on new data centers is set to end March 30 Public safety · Savannah, Georgia Public safety town hall with Alderwoman Linda Wilder-Bryan, District 3 Savannah District 3 Alderwoman Linda Wilder-Bryan holds a public safety town hall with the police and fire departments and the Office of… Education · DeKalb County, Georgia DeKalb schools by area: money, buildings, reading and teachers DeKalb is redrawing school attendance lines in two phases. Health · DeKalb County, Georgia Proposed care homes next to Southwest DeKalb High School Public safety · Chicago, Illinois Should Chicago restart gunshot detection? On November 3, Chicago voters get a direct say on a public safety tool.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.