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Hi Kid: For 2025-Time To Go Local!
Featuring: 2025 Upgrades, You Paid for Egg Price Hikes, and Lying About the Mill Levy
Hello Hi Kid Fans & Friends! Welcome to an fascinating start to 2025! We are eager to see what this year brings and are excited to share our updates and plans for the coming year with you. Last year, we sent you weekly newsletters, providing you with local connections to national interests. We hope we brought clarification around important issues affecting your families. Over the summer, Hi Kid increased our presence on X, and we are thrilled to have grown our reach and audience to include some nationally relevant voices and school policy experts. Check our our latest post viewed by over 14,000 people about Colorado State’s DEI graduation requirement HERE. The platform of X enables us to reach thousands of people across the country efficiently and immediately. So in 2025, Hi Kid will be increasing our focus on producing content on X. But do not despair! Our newsletters will still be shared with you—they will simply be less often. The newsletters are definitely still necessary for our more complex stories and reveals. Hi Kid may not be in your inbox weekly—but it will be at least monthly and we promise our content will continue to be the high value you have come to expect! A few key areas we will be shining spotlights on this year include: key public-private partnerships, revealing NGOs and other tax-exempt organizations, following the money trails to local actions, curriculum revelations, and education policy. Thank you for your continued support; we are grateful for you. Reach out on X with any ideas about conversations you wish were happening locally, and encourage others to subscribe to our newsletter (HERE). Join us on Telegram HERE. To receive more of our content, join us on X @HiKidHey. Let’s connect!
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How High Is Your Local-Issue IQ?
We are going to go way out on a limb and guess that you are well aware of national Presidential politics. At this point, we think even our dog knows about the election. But how much do you know about the activities of your local government agencies? Your school districts, cities, and counties? Remember-governments can only spend money that comes directly from you, so it would be wise to know what you’re paying for. Have you seen the price of eggs lately? Your hard-earned tax dollars funded that price hike courtesy of our state legislature. Did your local representatives vote for that increase? You should know.
Everyone we know works hard—trading their physical and mental efforts for well-deserved paychecks. We strongly encourage you to dig in locally in 2025 and learn what your local governments are doing with the money you’ve given them. Worry less about DC and more about FTC. Decisions from these local bodies intimately your families’ lives and the lives of your neighbors and friends.
Below is a useful list of your local government agencies, including information about their meetings, their budgets and examples of how they spend your money.
Choose one of these options—it’s not even hard!—and get informed. You may be shocked by what you learn.
Attend a meeting in person
Attend a meeting virtually
Watch recorded meetings at a time convenient for you
Read the group’s published agendas and minutes
Sign up for email updates and notifications
Here are some perhaps shocking and interesting ways your local governments are using your money: