Politics & Government Good News

Feel more hopeful about 2022 with Good Good Good’s roundup of the best positive news of the year — updated every month.

More than 160 gun owners in Richmond, Virginia, turned in 474 firearms in the city’s first-ever gun buyback event. City officials offered Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger gift cards in various amounts for different unwanted firearms.

Every year, The Helpers Edition of the Goodnewspaper highlights inspiring helpers in a number of categories. In this post we’re celebrating helpers in the Government & Justice category.

Every year, The Helpers Edition of the Goodnewspaper highlights inspiring helpers in a number of categories. In this post we’re celebrating helpers in the Ukraine category.

Using data from the Bike League, the Census Bureau, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and several cities' websites, we looked into the 10 cities in the U.S. where bike commuting has increased the most.

While affordable housing is a multilayered issue, it’s important that we both acknowledge the systems that put many in this position while also recognizing the people and organizations diligently working towards creative solutions.

The United Nations reports that 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing conditions, while at last count, more than 100 million people have no housing at all. It’s a big number that helpers are working to shrink through a variety of international affordable housing efforts.

The “library of things" is a movement in the United States that is reshaping public libraries and how they serve patrons in the digital age.

The share of journeys made by car in the city has fallen by nearly half, and the trend is only accelerating.

Local foods, once rare on school lunch trays, are gradually becoming more available in school cafeterias as states promote fresh produce, legumes, meats, and fish.

The importance of these lands goes back further than explorations of the Western wilderness, further than the passage of protective legislation. Using a variety of historical sources, we compiled a list of the 25 oldest established national parks in America.

We compiled a look at all 27 amendments to the Constitution in order to provide an overview of precisely what was at stake each time our elected leaders voted to amend America's governing document.