After a particularly serious chlorine dioxide leak, which could have injured thousands of workers had they been in the factory, the town selectmen instructed the...
In May 1998, President Clinton issued Executive Order 13083 on Federalism. Its centralizing language generated such a firestorm of opposition from conservatives and state and...
Idaho was the first state to mandate in-state processing for logs harvested from state forests. Since becoming a state in 1890, Idaho has required all...
On occasion, governments at the local, state and federal level make purchasing policies that take factors besides price into consideration. For instance, some state and...
The New England town meeting and school district meeting are the only direct democracy institutions in the United States involving lawmaking by assembled voters. Law...
What level of government should exercise what kinds of authority? That question has been vigorously debated throughout U.S. history. Indeed, the U.S. Constitution itself represented...
Texas has created a Unified Development Budget — an annual statement to the legislature with all forms of spending itemized in one place. All tax...
The conduct of Marshfield’s Town Meeting is dictated by Federal and State law, the Town’s Charter and By-Laws, local tradition, and the publication entitled, "Town...
All officers of the city, as defined in section 1207, and all employees of the city and any and all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, including...
Montana had a ban on corporate contributions to ballot issue campaigns until 1976, when it was thrown out by the courts. In 1996, however, Montana...
Passed by Wayne Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania by a 3-0 vote in 1998, this ordinance is primarily a "three strikes and you’re out" ordinance. It...
Whereas, the City of Northampton has a long and distinguished history of protecting and expanding civil rights and civil liberties, often being a beacon for...
The Barnstead Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance[Warrant Article 31] was presented and passed at the Barnstead Town Meeting on March 18, 2006. The ordinance...
Efforts to privatize government services in cities and states do not always save the city money, replace well paid and benefited largely unionized public workers...
Barnstead, New Hampshire, became the first municipal government in the United States to ban corporations from pumping out a drop of water for sale elsewhere....