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Why Civic Service Matters
What is actually decided in the rooms most people never enter, and why the supply of people willing to sit in them is the binding constraint on local self-government.
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The Cost of Serving
An honest account of what a seat takes from somebody, because the reassuring version recruits people who resign within a year and repels the ones who would have served for a decade.
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The Seat Nobody Contested
An uncontested seat is not consensus. It is the point at which a community stopped choosing, and the consequences arrive quietly over the following decade.