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Your Des Moines mailbox
Everything the city puts on the record, sorted into collections. Open one to start reading.
Headline Desk
What Des Moines's newsrooms are reporting, gathered in one place and linked straight back to them.
Meetings
Every public meeting as an email — video, agenda, and a plain-language digest. Filter by governing body or agenda.
Records requests
Open records requests to local agencies, tracked like a mail thread — outbound asks and the replies that come back.
HoodBuster Video
The meeting-video store — browse the shelves of recorded sessions, VHS-style, and check out what you want to watch.
Town Square
Neighborhood bulletin boards — post, reply, and organize with the people who live where you do.
Yellow Pages
A community phone book on the Meshtastic mesh — look up a node and message it over radio when the internet is down.