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The board can, among other things, “write building codes, sell tax-free bonds, produce electricity, condemn property and kill mosquitoes.”
How serious of a threat is DeSantis making? Well, Florida’s legislature is finished with its annual business and won’t meet again until next year—unless DeSantis calls a special session. But one also imagines that even if building-code approval and other responsibilities reverted to other local authorities in central Florida, those authorities might defer to the interests of the global megacorporation that is responsible for 99.9 percent of their area’s economic activity.
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