Town Founding News Today

In advance of the new Ken Burns documentary on Ben Franklin, the lowdown on the life and loves of the Philly icon.

Law that take ace way peoples right to choose their local elected officials, a law that allows the state to declare your town a failure and to appoint an emergency financial person to be the new boss over the elected officials in your town, someone who can order them to do things, who can undo what they have done as elected officials, who can fire them if she or he so decides. the state is not only coming in and saying we dont care who we elected to represent you, were firing them and taking ove...

Town a failure and to appoint an emergency financial person to be the new boss toef elected officials in your town, someone who can order them to do things, who can undo what they have done as elected officials, who can fire them if she or he so decides. the state is not only coming in and saying we dont care who we elected to represent you, were firing them and taking over ourselves, and theyre saying abolish your town. who are your town founding fathers or mothers? the state says we can dissol...