Cities are fighting back against preemption to chart their own course on issues from labor standards to civil rights to environmental protection.
In August I attended the Mayors Innovation Project summer meeting in Grand Rapids where one of the most common themes in presentations and casual conversations was "preemption." So we reached out to Kim Haddow with the Local Solutions Support Center to find out more about preemption, why it has so many communities worried, and what they are doing about it.
Here is our Q&A on preemption:
