Councils · Commissions · Every meeting

Your local government, graded.

Councils and commissions decide what gets built, what gets funded, and what gets ignored — in meetings almost nobody sits through. We score every one of them against 15 nonpartisan governing principles, so you can read the record in the time it takes to read a text.

Nonpartisan · Grounded in public records · One standard, every market
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Where we're live.

One methodology, one standard, rolling out market by market. Each market has its own local service and its own record.

Colorado Springs · City Council

Colorado Springs City Council, scored after every meeting — 9 councilmembers, roughly every two weeks.

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El Paso County · Board of County Commissioners

El Paso County Board of County Commissioners, scored after every meeting — 5 commissioners, most weeks, often more than once.

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The standard

One rubric, applied the same way everywhere.

Every contested decision is measured against the same 15 principles — transparency, public interest, fairness, stewardship — then scored 0 to 5 on the Screw-O-Meter. A score in one market means the same thing as a score in another.

How the scoring works →