How running for local office can help you connect with – and help – your community

They say all politics is local.

But “they” certainly don’t say anything about how to actually break into the world of politics.

It’s a bit daunting, figuring out just how to get involved in local politics — even for someone like me, a politics editor who lives, breathes and works in the political world.

But local politics is one path you can take to connect with your community and to make tangible impacts.

You might play a role in adding a crosswalk at a busy intersection in your neighborhood...