Your city hall still meets every week. The paper that covered it is gone.

Every week your city council decides things that change your rent, your commute, and your neighborhood — in language no one has time to read. As local newsrooms vanish, those decisions go unwatched. The Decoder reads the public record for you, rewrites each item in plain English, and puts what affects you on the front page. Then you can ask it anything — and every answer comes straight from the record, with sources.