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While national attention focuses on Washington and state capitals, the decisions that most directly affect your daily life are made quietly at the local level — in city halls, planning commissions, school boards, and utility authorities.

These decisions determine what gets built in your community, how public funds are spent, how utilities are allocated, and whose interests are prioritized. New developments can permanently change neighborhoods. Infrastructure projects can strain resources for decades. Contracts can be awarded in ways that limit competition and transparency.

Most of this happens out of public view — not necessarily because people are malicious, but because few citizens are trained to recognize when something is improper, unlawful, or simply not in the community’s best interest.

Municipal Watchdog exists to change that.