If getting a new development approved and built is a battle, the skirmishes are escalating in and around Turf Valley. After the recent launch of a petition drive challenging a law that that affects the size of grocery stores, the Howard County Chamber of Commerce has issued a call to increase the number of signatures required on such a petition. "The ... County Charter requirement for 5,000 signatures to petition the ... action of elected bodies to referendum is low and antiquated," read an "advocacy alert" the chamber e-mailed to 1,600 people at 850 businesses last week.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.referendum28dec28,0,365968.story?page=1
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Okay, let's make it HARDER for the public to stop government nonsense. American politics was built on the concept of checks and balances - and that includes the ability of the citizenry to act when it sees an error being perpetrated by its elected officials. It's not like this citizen power is abused. The problem is that the power exists at all.
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