Community Criminal Justice Board Presented with Middle River Expansion Proposals
Post by Garrison Ratliff and Zeina Saliba, students in Local Politics and Issue Governance, Fall 2019 On Monday, December 2nd, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Community Criminal Justice Board held its second meeting of the year. There was an array of topics discussed that...
Local Media Representations of Climate Disruption
Post by Matt Long, Matt Furbush, and Alec Bellis, JMU Political Science "Local Politics and Issue Goverance" students An abundance of scholarly studies how media representations frame a variety of policy issues nationally, however there is a comparative dearth of...
Framing Immigration: Local Media Coverage of Immigration
Post by Shawn Donahue, Tayloe Carroll, Lily Gates Framing is defined as a way that media uses a message or story and finds ways to have the audience interpret it. This can vary from positive or negative interpretations, it is ultimately up to those telling the story....
2019 Media Analysis of Immigration in Harrisonburg: “The Citizen” Provides Most Coverage
Post by Matthew Hershberger and John Cheefetz According to the Agenda Setting Theory, the media influences the public’s attention and mind by choosing which issues to present. In line with this theory, the media is able to act as a gatekeeper by selecting stories they...
Local Governance Is Not Monolithic: City Council Debates Rezoning
Post by Alec Bellis, Matt Furbush, Matt Long, POSC 351 "Local Politics and Issue Governance" students Local governance is not monolithic, but multiply constituted by a variety of factors. While it is true that many different localities share similar problems with...
Affordable Housing for Whom?: City Council Debate on Housing Development Shows Cleavages
Post by Katrina Tilley and Kaitlyn Carpenter, POSC 351 "Local Politics and Issue Governance" students The City of Harrisonburg conducts a City Council meeting every other Tuesday of the month. On October 22, 2019 there was a meeting held in the council chambers. The...