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About

A clearer signal for your city.

Cities do not fail because nobody cares. They fail because the signal gets buried. Good work goes unnoticed. Problems become rumors. Residents see patterns long before institutions do - but there is no trusted place to send what they're seeing.

Good News Bad News exists to close that gap.

The state of local news in America
19,500
cities and towns
76
independent daily newspapers left

Each dot is a city. For every 256 cities, only one still has an independent daily newspaper, and most of those answer to billionaires and corporate chains.

That should concern anyone who cares about strong communities. It is time to fight back.

Put your city back on the recordWidely reported estimates

What it is

A moderated, community-powered signal system - part civic newsroom, part neighborhood early-warning system, part public square with rules.

What it is not

Not a complaint board. Not Nextdoor. Not a city portal. Not anonymous gossip. The point isn't to make Spokane look good or bad - it's to help the city see clearly.

Open, but not reckless.

Make it easy for residents to submit raw signal, but hard for unverified claims to become public harm. Local, but not small. Honest, but not cynical. Constructive, but not sanitized.