December may have been the slowest, darkest month of the year, but we at the Chronicles were rushing to meet our year-end council quotas! (Which we did, but my interns will NOT be getting any bonuses.)
We chronicled:
6 council meetings
In 6 states
With a combined population of
500,200 people
We saw
1 council member lose his temper
1,814 previous council meetings go unwatched by me
2 mayors in a Vulcan Mind Meld
Hundreds of tears at a farewell party
4 podcast interviews with 2 John Denver songs and 1 native Hawaiian tune
1 new installment of our storytelling project
And it all happened thanks to these titans of civil discourse:
Livonia, Michigan city council
Millbrae, California city council
Louisville, Kentucky metro council
Schenectady, New York city council
McHenry, Illinois city council
City Council Chronicles 