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Meet the Mayor of a Tiny Texas Town Who Wants to Limit How Cities Can Govern
A push to restrict local governments’ ability to decide how they spend their money and which policies they can adopt is having downstream effects in tiny towns and big cities like Dallas.
![Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta that reads, “ At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. 19] Atta was averse to modern development. This included the construction of high-rise buildings in Cairo and other ancient cities in the region. He believed that the drab and impersonal apartment blocks, built in the 60s and 70s, ruined the beauty of old neighborhoods and robbed their people of privacy and dignity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:42w75ppgdk7goly4ip7ebmrh/bafkreigusvnskzzu6o6c7ckveqfer7zdussf5vcsvt32h4jolv5hctzt2y)
