cranberrytownship.news is an independent, AI-assisted civic journalism project covering Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania (Butler County, near Pittsburgh, pop. ~35,000). We publish news articles, investigative features, and meeting coverage drawn entirely from public records, official meeting transcripts, and government documents.
Local journalism is disappearing. Cranberry Township, like thousands of communities across America, lacks dedicated reporters covering local government. Board meetings go unattended. Budget decisions, zoning fights, and development debates happen with minimal public scrutiny.
cranberrytownship.news exists to fill that gap. We organize the public records we can obtain and identify gaps. Our archive includes agendas, minutes and other documents; it is not a complete video transcript archive. An agenda describes proposed business and cannot establish a vote or outcome.
Source material: Source documents include official agendas, minutes and public notices. Video-derived transcripts are identified separately when available. We do not claim that every meeting has a transcript or that every posted source establishes a completed meeting.
Article generation: New drafts are prepared locally with source packets and an independent factual check. There is no remote model writer in this workflow. Publication remains the editorial coordinatorial decision. Documents and source dates are distinguished from article dates.
Coordinatorial oversight: New AI-assisted drafts require a fresh independent agent to check original sources, followed by final editorial approval by the coordinator. Matt is the responsible publisher. A writer cannot approve their own copy. Historical approval receipts are not available for every existing article; we do not retroactively certify those articles as reviewed.
Transparency: Article metadata records the drafting model when available. Readers should check the source panel for document type and available original links; a timestamp is available only where a timed transcript exists.
We cover the following Cranberry Township-area government bodies:
cranberrytownship.news is an independent news project. It is not affiliated with Cranberry Township, any political party, or any commercial interest.
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Our archive contains 84 meeting records, including 17 explicitly labeled agenda records, 39 minutes records and 0 records flagged as transcripts. Counts reflect recorded metadata, not a completeness guarantee. Available text is searchable via our Ask Cranberry tool.