I ... don't even really understand this one.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/30/2790796/new-nc-legislature-targets-arrogant.html Three cities - Charlotte, Asheville and Raleigh - face the loss of signature assets. Small towns, like bigger cities, fear significant revenue drains.
It’s not just municipalities that have felt the sting. Senate bills would redraw school board districts in Wake and Guilford counties and change the way members in each are elected.
“It has been an amazing array of bills that add up to more restrictions on cities and on urban counties to govern themselves,” says Ferrel Guillory, a political analyst at UNC Chapel Hill.