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Pandemic Provokes City vs. State Conflicts The coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 elections have increased the number of states preempting local laws and ordinances, especially where cities and states were run by different political parties. Elaine S. Povich, Stateline   |   April 20, 2021   |  Analysis Late last year, commissioners in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, proposed cutting police funding in half over the next decade and redirecting the money to mental health and social services. The bill didn’t pass, but the idea alone so outra...

Cleveland’s charter grants City Council subpoena powers for investigations, but experts say that authority likely has limits Robert Higgs, cleveland.com © Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer/Plain Dealer file photo/cleveland.com/TNS Readers on cleveland.com were loud and clear about a campaign by activists to reduce the size and pay of Cleveland City Council. They think it’s a good idea. CLEVELAND, Ohio – For the first time in perhaps 90 years, Cleveland City Council is attempting to use its charter-granted subpoena power to compel the appearance of a private citizen – a mo...

WASHINGTON – A CNN reporter buttonholed then-Rep. Chris Collins in the halls of Congress in November 2018 and asked the indicted lawmaker if President Trump should pardon him. "Oh, no, that would not be appropriate," Collins said, dishonestly insisting he was innocent of insider trading charges. Two years and one month later, and only 10 weeks into a prison term supposed to last 26 months, Collins left prison a free man. He accepted Trump's pardon late Tuesday and quickly departed the federal prison camp in Pensacola, Fla., in time to spend Christmas with his family. But was Collins' par...