Both Councilman Brad Lander and Shehab Chowdhury, one of the volunteer facilitators, tried to put it politely, but arts-related projects haven’t fared well in the participatory budgeting process in ...

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn slammed a “tone-deaf” and “unserious” plan from the Wu administration that would allow young children to dictate how millions of dollars in public funds are spent as ...

Spottiswoode Park residents are getting a $200,000 budget to improve their neighbourhood – part of the district's move to ...

Tufts Student Life introduced a pilot participatory budgeting program this month which encourages the university community to decide how the university should allocate $60,000 of its budget. The ...

The winners of last week’s vote for Participatory Budgeting for District 33 are in! Coming in first was a proposal for district-wide tree planting, an initiative that will receive $100,000. $200,000 ...

City Council’s participatory budgeting program is gearing up for its sixth season, with 10 Brooklyn districts participating this year. (Participating districts are ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, the projects for the fourth and what could be the final round of Participatory Budgeting were announced, with voting to begin on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Celina Su, CUNY Graduate Center (THE CONVERSATION) Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield ...

Gordon E. Berry (Geb) wants to install a slackline and traveling rings in McCarren Park. Matthew W. would like to see a public toilet on Pacific Street between 3rd and 4th avenues so people will stop ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — For the last few years, Spa City residents 18 and older have been able to cast their votes for Participatory Budgeting projects that would be funded by a portion of the city’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Sheffield, center, had already been through 12 budget processes as a City Council member before she was elected mayor of ...