The Local Control Two-Step
The legislature's desire to protect local control against citizens initiatives while curtailing local control while in session is going to backfire on legislators eventually.
North Dakota’s legislature has a problem - they spend billions and billions of dollars to support local government services, and reduce the impact of property taxes on citizen - but nobody believes it and nobody respects it. State support of local government has itself become an entitlement program.
From 2003 to 2023, state funding assistance increased …
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