Everyone wants to know ‘the story’ behind City Report Cards. Truth is, there’s no axe to grind here – it’s just a way to consolidate the city-specific information that voters might find important.
Public policy is complex, and the emphasis here on numbers is meant to show the net effect of countless decisions that city leadership and departments have to make daily. The news stories we curate are selected to shed light on the operational styles of those city decision makers.
Finally, there’s no interest in partisan politics here. If you’re hopelessly locked into one party’s dogma – either Republican or Democrat – you may believe that you can identify a slant in what you see here.
There is no agenda beyond aggregating all the info and letting the results tell the story.