'Government Efficiency, The Case For Local Control' is a new report from the Association of Towns of the State of New York that rejects the case made by the New York State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness for consolidation of government services. The Association of Towns argues the best government is often the smallest government unit and that there are efficiencies to small government. [introduction to report from http://www.syracuse2020.org]

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The pushback against federal power began under Bush, but may now be accelerating.
By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the March 27, 2009 edition

Atlanta - There's an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts's district never did.

With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state "sovereignty bills" – one even calls for outright dissolution of the Union if Washington doesn't rein itself in – Pitts is at the forefront of a states' rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment.

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