5/26/2003
Overruling the locals
This Tallahassee Democrat story lists four bills that take authority away from local government. (A similar story in the Tampa Trib.) (Via Sayfie Review.)
These stories center around DOT but this is hardly an exhaustive list. The Legislature also passed a bill preventing local governments from enacting living-wage laws. (The Herald has an example of its effect in Miami.)
Paritcuarly in education, Florida Republicans have jettisoned the idea of local autonomy in favor of pure top-down from Tallahassee. What's the use of being in charge if you let locals do whatever they want? Development interests are not giving you wheelbarrows full of money to empower local government.
These stories center around DOT but this is hardly an exhaustive list. The Legislature also passed a bill preventing local governments from enacting living-wage laws. (The Herald has an example of its effect in Miami.)
Paritcuarly in education, Florida Republicans have jettisoned the idea of local autonomy in favor of pure top-down from Tallahassee. What's the use of being in charge if you let locals do whatever they want? Development interests are not giving you wheelbarrows full of money to empower local government.
