To view this on the COS website, click here [[https://conventionofstates.com/files/cos-community-newsmaker-pitch-ideas|cos-community-newsmaker-pitch-ideas]]

To download the pdf file from the COS website, click here [[https://conventionofstates.com/files/cos-community-newsmaker-pitch-ideas/download|COS_Grassroots_App%%__%%Pitch_Ideas.pdf]]


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====== COS Community Newsmaker Pitch Ideas ======


This document gives ideas/suggestions for different topics that can be pitched by the grassroots.

Attachment: 1805/COS_Grassroots_App%%__%%Pitch_Ideas.pdf
| \\ \\ \\ \\ {{:public:cb_mirror:files_9952_pdfto001.png?nolink&918x1188|}}\\ \\  \\ \\  \\ \\ //Putting the power of community news in the hands of local citizens// \\ \\  \\ \\ **COS Newsmaker: Story Pitch Ideas **\\ \\ **1. Positive Community stories (individuals or groups) **\\ \\ a. Community garden \\ b. Picking up litter  \\ c. Neighborhood daycare, carpool, etc. \\ d. “Good Samaritan”: foster care, sponsoring addiction recovery, helping someone \\ \\ ‘down on their luck’, etc. \\  \\ \\ **2. Positive Governance **\\ \\ a.  An official who goes above and beyond: helpful county clerk, friendly mailman, \\ \\ etc. \\ \\ b. Local governments (county, city, township…) effecting beneficial change: \\ \\ revitalizing a local park \\ \\ c. A politician keeping their promises \\ d. An office holder or government entity demonstrating transparency: a school \\ \\ district disclosing contracts \\ \\  \\ \\ **3. Political Issues **\\ \\ a. Taxes, or proposed taxes, are too high \\ b. Local government chooses to tolerate drug use  \\ \\ i.\\ \\ Recreational marijuana, “safe shoot-up zone”, etc. \\ \\ c. Infrastructure: worn roads & sidewalks, dilapidated parks, general eyesores \\ d.  Advocating for State term limits \\ e. Advocating for the city, county, township, etc. to run a balanced budget \\ \\  \\ \\ **4. Negative Governance **\\ \\ a. Lack of transparency \\ \\ i.\\ \\ Budget: spending, contracts, etc. \\ \\ ii.\\ \\ Lobbying records & expenditures \\ \\ iii.\\ \\ Access to meetings/minutes \\ \\ iv.\\ \\ Little to no interaction with the public (mayor, councilman, manager, \\ representative, etc.) \\ \\ b. Corruption, nepotism: taking money from outsider groups, appointing close \\ \\ friends, allies, donors to insider positions \\ \\ c. Government has lack of movement on important issue: not responding to a health \\ \\ crisis at local elementary school \\ \\ d. Office holder going back on promises, being openly rude/hostile to constituent  \\ \\  \\ \\ -- Internal Document: COS NewsMaker Pitch Ideas --\\ \\ ** **\\ \\ 1 of 1|
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|Created:                 |2020-03-31 19:36 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2021-04-01 03:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2020-03-31 05:00 GMT|
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 12:19 GMT|
|Change Author:           |Grant Martin        |
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