I have put the Whatcom County Charter into a local wiki. I will move it into ReLocalize Creativity wiki soon enough. I think that the county charter , the county comprehensive plan, and the current political debates and decisions (governing) should be linked and easily navigable for all. For me that means represented in graphic (nodes and edges) form (graphviz and GIS maps). Then we can attach citizen journalism writers and article to the ongoing drama of civic life in this place. The whole point of doing this is to increase participation at the neighborhood level in the deliberations at all levels that affect neighborhood residents.