EDITORIAL: More local control may hedge against oppression
“All politics is local,” implored former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Town leaders in Monument, a bedroom community for Denver and Colorado Springs, don’t want to lose businesses to the state’s on-again-off-again COVID-19 shutdowns. In Monument, when a business owner struggles or goes under it means a friend and neighbor in peril. “The person we see at the grocery store is the person we see two tables down at the restaurant, in church, or at Walmart,” said Mayor Don Wilson. “A law that causes social separation in Denver or LA does not work in a town like this....
Source: gazette.com