When synthesizing mixed civic source types, how should financial tables and news articles be rendered?

When synthesizing mixed civic source types, financial tables should render as tables and news articles as prose rather than forcing one bland uniform format. Budget schedules, capital plans, and fee matrices lose meaning when flattened into paragraphs; journalism and narrative memos lose voice when forced into grids.

Type-appropriate rendering works because structure is part of the information. Tables preserve line items, fiscal years, and comparisons auditors expect; prose preserves attribution, quotes, and argument flow from news or staff narratives. Mixed parks, budget, and communications briefs stay usable for finance and public-affairs audiences alike.

Forcing every source type into identical paragraph blobs fails because numeric relationships disappear into text. Converting all tables into vague narrative with no structure fails because totals and line items become unverifiable mush. Discarding news prose and keeping only numeric tables fails because qualitative context, community reaction, and timeline nuance vanish.

Exam caveat: rendering fidelity is not decoration—it is fidelity to source semantics during multi-agent civic synthesis. Operational check: in mixed financial and news packets, emit financial data in tabular form and news-derived content as attributed prose; reject a pipeline that normalizes everything to one blob format.