Local coverage of PeachTracker, the civic-transparency project I founded to make local government in Macon-Bibb County easier to follow.
About 27% of registered voters turned out for Macon-Bibb’s primary. 13WMAZ looked at how PeachTracker grew from an election-night results tracker into a wider civic platform — explaining wards, ordinances and the county budget, and letting residents follow how commissioners vote.
Read on 13wmaz.com↗I realized that I can do that through policy, I can do that through passing laws.
WGXA caught up with me on election night at the Bibb County Board of Elections, posting live results for the Macon Water Authority and school board races — a one-man newsroom for a county where most people never see the process up close.
Read on wgxa.tv↗There are more than 100,000 people that live in Macon-Bibb that don’t know they have access to the same information.
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