New Citizen’s Guide Debuts

WinCity Voices has pro­duced an ear­ly ver­sion of what will even­tu­al­ly become a com­pre­hen­sive cit­i­zens’ guide to local and state gov­ern­ment for res­i­dents of Clark County. The new sec­tion, released on Jan. 22, will be expand­ed in the com­ing months.

“Civic engage­ment is going to be our theme for 2026,” said WinCity Voices edi­tor and pub­lish­er Pete Koutoulas. “We want to see Clark County res­i­dents more engaged in their gov­ern­ment. Whether that means gen­er­al knowl­edge, atten­dance and engage­ment at gov­ern­ment meet­ings, or run­ning for office—among oth­er things—we know that a thriv­ing democ­ra­cy depends on informed and engaged citizens.”

The new sec­tion con­tains valu­able infor­ma­tion about the func­tion­ing of the city, coun­ty, and (even­tu­al­ly) state gov­ern­ment as they affect res­i­dents of Clark County.

“It’s very basic right now,” said Koutoulas. “But we want­ed to go ahead and launch it now so our read­ers and become accus­tomed to it. In the com­ing months, it will be great­ly expanded.”

Koutoulas added that WinCity Voices staff is also seek­ing feed­back on oth­er fea­tures and infor­ma­tion its read­ers would like to see in this new sec­tion. There’s a link on the new page to sub­mit ideas.

The new sec­tion can be reached by choos­ing the “Your Government” tab on the WinCity Voices home page.

Koutoulas is also the exec­u­tive direc­tor of WinCity Voices’ par­ent non­prof­it cor­po­ra­tion, WinCity Media. He said the new sec­tion is only the start of a broad­er project to increase civic engage­ment in Clark County.

“The board of WinCity Media is deeply com­mit­ted to this project,” Koutoulas added. “We are look­ing at oth­er ways to increase res­i­dents’ involve­ment in local gov­ern­ment. One idea is to help host can­di­dates forums in coöper­a­tion with oth­er local enti­ties. Another is to host a series of civic engage­ment work­shops. We are dis­cussing these and oth­er ideas.”

WinCity Voices will also report more on local gov­ern­ment with the hir­ing of free­lance reporter Randy Patrick, a sea­soned jour­nal­ist with a long list of cred­its, hav­ing writ­ten for and edit­ed The Winchester Sun, Bardstown’s The Kentucky Standard, and oth­ers. WinCity Voices plans to pub­lish can­di­date pro­files for local and region­al can­di­dates who serve Clark County.