Data Stories

Cross-municipal patterns that are only visible when you monitor 1,800+ municipalities at once. Every story below is built from live pipeline data -- contagion events, entity sightings, and signal classification across hundreds of jurisdictions. Updated weekly.

• PFAS Is Spreading Through Municipal Agendas Faster Than Groundwater -- 120 events across 72 municipalities in 23 states. The remediation wave is visible in town council agendas months before EPA enforcement actions.
• The Company That Shows Up in 123 Towns -- Entity resolution across 1,800+ municipalities reveals which public companies have the deepest municipal government footprint. Verizon: 6,183 sightings. Tyler Technologies: 88 towns. Amazon: 2,932 sightings.
• The Housing Density Wave Is Rewriting Municipal Zoning in Real Time -- 399 events across 130+ municipalities in 27 states. ADU mandates, density increases, and short-term rental regulation are one wave, moving through regions at different speeds.
• Lead Pipes Are a $50B Problem Hiding in Municipal Agendas -- 77 events across 39 municipalities in 13 states. The EPA's Lead and Copper Rule is creating a predictable cascade of municipal spending, and the earliest signals are already in the pipeline.
• The Pickleball Boom Is Now a Line Item in Municipal Budgets -- 29 signals across 14 municipalities in 9 states. From federal grants to tennis court conversions to liquor license amendments, pickleball infrastructure spending is the full lifecycle of a consumer trend becoming municipal capital expenditure.

Town Profiles

What the pipeline sees in a single municipality -- document volume, signal classification, entity resolution, infrastructure data, and vendor landscape. Each profile is auto-generated from continuous monitoring.

• Falmouth, Maine -- 689 documents, 18 boards, 45 tickers, 8 tower sites. Coastal New England town with active development, climate, and infrastructure lease signals.
• Geneva, Illinois -- 1,338 documents, 45 boards, 50 tickers, 257 check registers. The alt data story: entity resolution maps vendor payments to public company revenue across 1,700+ sightings.
• Pocatello, Idaho -- 2,244 documents, 39 boards, 98 HIGH signals, 38 tower sites. The town nobody's watching, producing more high-priority signals than cities ten times its profile.