A friend recently told me the county building fees had been raised. I didn't see how this could be right because the state law authorizing the collection of building fees requires that an increase of over 5 percent requires a public hearing. I remember testifying at the last building fee …
Perhaps the most insidious and diabolical changes ever made to governments in history began with the dubious or even patently false claim that something is broken and needs to be fixed. Before that claim is made, the government officials planning to bring the change will have been misusing their positions …
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