Local

Politics reaches Romanian-Americans first at the local level — the school board that sets the calendar, the county commission that zones the parish hall, the city council that decides whether a small business survives its third year. This section covers that layer.

What we cover

Romanian-American communities are concentrated in metropolitan Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas and South Florida, with older settlements across the industrial Midwest and newer ones following technology and healthcare work. Local coverage here follows those communities: municipal and county races, state legislative seats, ballot measures on taxes and schools, and the parish and cultural organizations that anchor Romanian-American civic life.

Find your local Republican committee

Every county in the United States has a Republican Party committee, and that committee is the practical entry point for anyone who wants to do more than vote. We maintain a searchable directory of more than 3,200 Republican Party organizations — national, state, territorial, county and auxiliary.

• Local Republican committees — county, parish and municipal committees
• Browse the full directory — every organization we track
• Republican officials — chairs and leadership, where publicly attested

Entries are filterable by state — for example Illinois, Michigan, Ohio or Florida. Each listing carries a verification tier; read our editorial standards for what those tiers mean before you rely on a listing to make contact.

Tell us what is happening where you are

Local news is the hardest kind to gather at a distance and the easiest to get from the people living it. If something is happening in your city or county that Romanian-Americans should know about, send it to the tipline.