Hope for municipalities

Help me find some hope out here.

The fact that so many voters rode fetterman's thing for soooo looooong (even after all the land grabbin and gun toting behavior) did not surprise me, bc that's honestly par for the course. Yinzers (myself proudly included under the banner) are so conditioned to accept bad governance, the company line, entrenchment and industrial paternalism (and now the family foundations).

But sh1t, if you're still here, that means your family survived hell w the lid off, redlining, toxic health exposures (historic and ongoing), cancer clusters, gentrification, the Pittsburgh diocese (etc etc etc, this is only what comes to mind from my line).

And if you are from somewhere else but moved here, I know you've seen other ways of doing things. Aside from the faceless private equity bros, I feel like we are predominantly a city/region of exhausted but hardcore survivors + fresher faces who become rapidly burnt out trying to participate.

I'd like to hear more about when and how stagnant, corrupt leadership has been cleared in the city or surrounding municipalities. Any scale, any time period, still emerging... here are some key words to start:

Good governance resources

Sunshine laws

Participatory budgeting

Journalism

Reg enforcement