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[The following is a paid advertisement.]
Something about HB3881 doesn’t smell good, and it’s not the Cook County landfills the bill seeks to ban.
The bill is just a solution in search of a problem. Not a single Cook County official, municipal mayor or village manager has asked for this legislation. South suburban mayors are opposing the legislation because it undermines their ability to do what’s best for their communities. More should join them.
Today, communities make their own decisions on how best to manage their own land use and waste issues. Local communities, for example, have authority to permit or deny new landfills from operating. That approach works, so why change it?
The bill, in one fell swoop, snatches home rule authority right out from under scores of communities. If Springfield lawmakers can legislate what’s best for communities on this issue, what’s to stop them from gutting their home rule authority even further?
Ultimately, this is an issue about communities doing what’s best for their residents and not having our future dictated to us by Springfield politicians, big businesses or their lobbyists.
Springfield has much work to do, so let’s keep local issues out of the hands of state lawmakers.
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Friday, May 25, 12 @ 8:53 am
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