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Isn’t it ironic that here in the
Virginia Piedmont, the cradle of American democracy, local governments have so little power that they can’t prevent toxic sludge from being spread on their fields, or reject telecommunications facilities that most people who live here don’t want or need? ,. I imagine those distinguished Gentlemen of the Piedmont, Jefferson and Madison, would have had a strong reaction to the recent decision of the State Supreme , Court that Louisa County’s sludge ordinance exceeds the . power of local government under the Dillon Rule. They lived in an era when there
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