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• Mayor Briley Announces New Program To Address Health Disparities Among Pregnant Women And Babies

• Are Local Politics As Polarized As National? Depends on the Issue.

• Educators Look to End the Big Corporate Tax Giveaway – Are property tax breaks costing your schools money?

Ideas for Cities

• A Resolution Establishing a Select Committee on Pesticide Reduction

• How Participatory Budgeting Can Help Cities Modernize Services

• Boston Investing City Deposits In Support of Public Policy Goals

In Depth – Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations

• While we often think of voting as an act of rational self-interest, more often voting decisions are based on moral stances.

• Liberals tend to think that people are generally good and limited by circumstances, whereas conservatives think that people are generally selfish and want to restrict threats to social order.

• Lberals tend to make political decisions based on whether the policy will help/hurt people, and whether they are fair.

• Conservatives use those considerations, but also factor in loyalty to their ingroup, authority and respect, and purity/sanctity.

• Be deliberate about the moral framework and word choices you use when promoting policy and speaking to different political crowds.

News for Democrats

• When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?

• The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just hit its highest level in 3 million years

• China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump’s warning

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