MY TURN: Big brother? Local autonomy or state control?
Ed DePriest
A short survey. Do you want the federal government telling the state how to do things? How to conduct their business? If not, do you want the state telling the local cities how to do things? How to conduct their business? Ronald Reagan said that governance should be at the most local possible.
When a local councilmember doesn’t get his/her way locally, should they run to a political ally who is a state representative and have that representative create and insert text into a statute that allows them to circumvent the local procedure and process? Isn’t that kind of “swampish?”
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