Checks and Balances at the Local Level: Board of Adjustment Meeting by Olivia Kesselring
On February 20th, 2018, I attended a Board of Adjustment meeting for the City of St. Louis, Missouri. The board is a part of the Building...
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President of the Board of Alderman Debate: The Wake Up by Taylor Williams
Recently, the Board of Alderman of Saint Louis hosted a debate at...
Big and small issues converge at local city council meeting by John Barrett
On Monday, February 11th, citizens of a St. Louis suburb braved the cold temperatures and sleeting weather to voice their concerns on the state...
Woman March 2019 by Susmitha Chinni
Going to a women’s march on a frigid mid-west winter day is the last thing one would want to do. So why would hundreds of women march down the...
Lessons in Democracy from Local Government by Caleb Logan
On Tuesday, February 12, I attended the Maplewood City Council meeting. The City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month in...
Missouri’s Master Manipulators Amending Election Results, Again by Paige Cook
When discussing democracy, it is often referred to in the national or international sense, more specifically, in the notion of an entire...
Town Halls and Cooperation by Brett Jones
Often when we talk about the democratic processes in this country, most discussion dissects politics at the national or international level....
Xi’s China or Chinese Xi: Critical Evaluations of Charisma among Chinese Leaderships by Zitian Sun
Did Chinese Constitution Revision Make Xi A Dictator? On March 11, 2018, a CNN reporter, Matt Rivers, called the latest Chinese...
Can Reversion and Retrogression Work Together to Topple a Democracy?: Ortega’s Nicaragua by Riham Amin
When Daniel Ortega won his first term of presidency in 1984, he...