The Center Square

A different lens worth having in the rotation. The Center Square, formerly Watchdog.org, is a project of the Franklin News Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, and it has long placed reporters in state capitols. It distributes its stories through a newswire, so they turn up in papers that never send anyone to the statehouse. Read it for a fiscally conservative framing of budget and tax fights, and set it beside a nonprofit outlet with different priorities to see how the same bill can be told two ways. The point of view is open, which makes it easy to account for.