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County Commons is built out furthest for Clark County, Arkansas: the budget line by line, audits, petitions, offices and more. Every U.S. county has a starting page, and we build more for any county on request. Each request is counted here; the counties with the most requests get built next.

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Recent updates

2026-10-25

• Move Clark details out of the code and into config
• LICENSE: plain MIT text so GitHub detects it (the data license note lives in README and DATA-LICENSE.md)
• Free to copy: MIT code, CC BY 4.0 data, and a copy-it page
• Petitions are searchable: national directory, shared roll-ups, county board search, sitemaps
• Opinions live only in petitions: site-wide editorial audit

2026-10-24

• Sign state and national petitions straight from a shared link
• The open-checkbook petition in every U.S. county
• Every county: low-cost health clinics and doctor-shortage designations
• Answer what people search: spending, jail, property tax, jobs, audit, libraries
• Federal audit wording: special-basis books aren't 'misstated'
• Every county: government finances, federal audit, property tax, jobs, libraries
• Petitions on every county page in the country
• Built for every county: request more for yours

2026-10-23

• Help keep this honest: corrections and additions from every page
• Petitions: never reuse an id (shared titles collided across counties)
• Shared petitions: the same ask in every county, state and nation
• Petitions: a better share preview before the first signatures
• Petitions: say who started one when it isn't an anonymous resident

2026-10-22

• Petitions: the priorities board as the clipboard everyone recognizes

2026-10-18

• Add /compare on every county: how it compares, in computed facts
• Traffic: credit tagged shared links (?via=fb and a fixed list)
• Traffic: tally what kind of software asked for each page
• Election dates for all 50 states and D.C.

2026-10-17

• How every county compares with counties like it, and what has worked

2026-10-14

• Election Day vote centers and polling places, every Arkansas county
• Early voting sites for the Nov. 3 general election, every Arkansas county
• Housing costs for every U.S. county: HUD fair market rents
• Elected officials and quorum courts for all 75 Arkansas counties
• City audits: every Arkansas town's latest state audit on its county's page
• Answer what people search: fiscal health, ARPA spending, towns, audit terms

2026-10-12

• Make every county page its own: state rankings and nearest neighbors
• Weekly refresh of the open federal grants list
• Schools, health, disaster risk, bridges and grants for every county
• State hubs: every state's government money, offices and counties
• Front door links to every U.S. county page
• Every U.S. county, searchable: the national base template

2026-10-11

• What the auditors found: every Arkansas county's latest state audit
• Who to call: /offices on every county

2026-10-10

• Who's watching: a surveillance page on every county
• Stance: tenet 7 — trust no one, check everything; guarded by light, not locks
• IndexNow: retry a host's first 403 while the key is fetched; take several site keys
• IndexNow: retry a host's first 403 while the key is fetched; take several site keys
• IndexNow: announce every page to search engines, in the open
• Bing Webmaster Tools site verification tag

2026-10-08

• Make every site findable as a research source
• Elections in 9 more states, and where to vote on every non-Arkansas site
• Elections: confirmed clerk hours and voting sites for 10 Arkansas counties
• Elections: county clerk contact on every Arkansas county page
• Dockets for 73 Arkansas counties, seeded from their 2026 money trails
• Money trails for the last 16 scanned Arkansas budgets (2026, read by OCR)

From the project’s public change history: github.com/TiredofSleep/countycommons.