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Investigations, news, opinion, and culture — published six times a year since 2014.
Civic Ink began in 2014 as a six-page newsletter printed on newsprint and folded by hand in a borrowed basement. Twelve years later it is still printed on newsprint, still folded by hand, and still answering the same question: what is actually happening in this city, and who is it happening to?
We report on the machinery of civic life — budgets, zoning, transit, libraries, housing, and the public meetings where those decisions are made. Our investigations are built on public records and shoe leather. Our opinion pages are arguments with receipts.
We are independent: no corporate owners, no party affiliation, no paywalls on reporting that affects the public interest. Our revenue comes from subscribers, print sales, and readers like you. Corrections are published promptly and prominently, because a civic record is only as good as its accuracy.
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