The battle for power in government is eternal, and in Texas, they’ve got a case of goldilocks reform creeping into the legislature — the federal government is bad, local government is bad, but state government is just right. In this Texas session, it expresses itself in the form of preemption of local authority and passing regulatory burdens that restrict operations of local governments.
While this is out of Texas, the story line isn’t unique to one state. In this past North Dakota session, many of these same themes played out.
