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Poster-style cartoon: a tall, bearded senator in a SACRAMENTO sash works marionette strings tied to a small city's police, firefighter, planner, council and builder, as half-built towers rise behind them.

Community versus Outsiders

Social Liberty Foundation ·

Palo Alto and Menlo Park sit on either side of San Francisquito Creek, in two counties, with two city halls about two miles apart. Each is a somewhere: a city with its own streets, its own quarrels and its own […]

#city council#tiebout#transit-oriented development#land
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#dispatch#local knowledge#media#frey and stutzer#huntington beach#half moon bay#one-party states#sb 9#ward republics#switzerland#thomas jefferson#election 2026#proposition 49#sb 79#norwalk#home rule#jane jacobs#woodside#party endorsements#nonpartisan elections#housing element#lawfare#menlo park#tocqueville#community empowerment#palo alto#municipalism#california legislature#sb 1037#charter cities#social liberty#la cañada flintridge#procedural utility#housing strike force#hayek#supermajority#housing#statewide concern#residentialists#ab 2097#press#santa clara county democratic party#town meetings#measure p#remote work#california#port huron statement#elinor ostrom#builder's remedy#local control#yimby#elk grove
The New England map with a magnifying glass over Massachusetts, beside a November 3, 2026 ballot with empty boxes for governor, U.S. Senate and Questions 1 to 9 sliding into a ballot box marked VOTE.

Longest Warrant

Social Liberty Foundation ·

A New England town meeting runs off a warrant, the list of articles the selectmen post weeks ahead, and every voter in town gets a say on each one. Massachusetts voters will see something close to a statewide warrant on […]

#election 2026#primaries#vermont#dispatch
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#new hampshire#ranked-choice voting#new england regional#rhode island#maine#federalism#ballot measures#local control#tax cap#zoning#public records#massachusetts#connecticut#school consolidation