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Stripping Away Local Governmental Powers: a Global Rising Tide of Fascism

July 18, 2018

Stripping Away Local Governmental Powers: a Global Rising Tide of Fascism Fascists love strong central government control. On the other hand, local autonomy represents good governance, something that is anathema to fascists. Today, around the world, local governments at the municipal, provincial, and regional levels are finding themselves under siege by central governments exercising what […]

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Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance. 

June 12, 2018

Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance. This study, published in May, shows what happens to local politics when local newspapers close their doors. In short, it’s not good. But that doesn’t mean we need to preserve the relics of a bygone era. When a changing market unearths negative results, that […]

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We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things

February 24, 2018

We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things Whatever your solution may be, the path to change a nation starts locally. It’s happened again, another tragedy in America, and once more we hear the cries for systematic change echo from coast to coast. Instead of berating you with countless policy prescriptions in the aftermath, and […]

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The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy.

June 19, 2015

The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy. We are often asked “what would a Transition local government look like?”  It’s a complex question, but one Council taking a pioneering approach to its local economy is Preston in Lancashire.  Preston City Council, working with Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) recently published ‘Creating a Good […]

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