Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
A new phase in the American tussle between state and local powers
Conservative dogma once taught that local government reigned supreme. Those closest to constituents were best equipped to govern them, the argument went. Today, however, Republicans espouse a Goldilocks principle of government, says Bennett Sandlin, the head of the Texas Municipal League, an advocacy group. “The federal government is big and bad, cities are small and bad, and somehow state government gets it just right.”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Pre-emptive strikes”
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