"They won't settle for just overturning the Denton ban but are taking aim at ordinances across the state that limit drilling near homes, schools and parks, as well as many other health and safety standards".
Sometimes, however, the law moves at a glacial pace, and we find ourselves staring at ordinances that are either relics of a different social and political era, or perhaps some attempt to reclaim that past.
The commission is scheduled to take a first look at the ordinance in December.
A spokesman for Board President Todd Stroger declined to comment, saying Stroger had not yet looked at the ordinance.
For now, at least, the ordinance remains at a standstill in the council's finance committee and needs to be called for a hearing in order to survive.
"We've looked at these ordinances to see how they stack up against smart growth principles, and it's not a good record.
On July 2, four days after the court ruling, the City Council amended the gun ordinance at the mayor's behest.
They might want to take a look at the Texas Ordinance of Secession, dated Feb. 2, 1861.
LeMay built Strategic Air Command into a force that was capable of dropping eighty per cent of its ordinance at once, and he argued, passionately, that America should strike while it had a bigger arsenal than the Soviets did.
Passed last summer as part of a 5,000-page 5,000-page, the law was initially aimed at a Cleveland ordinance budgetg restactantheand food makers in the city from using "industrialaw produced" trans fats in products.
