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491. Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?

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City Government

The two basic types of city government in this country are council manager and mayor council. In dallas, eric johnson does not have that. We essentially created a structure where the city council functions as a board of trustees,. And the city manager performs as a ceo and the mayor. Former mayor laura miller is less diplomatic. Es is a wonderful place to live with a totally awful city government. That suggests that maybe a good city government isn't that important to having a good city generally. A recent study found that cities in the us. with so called weak mayors are more likely to stick to their budgets than when thereis a strong mayore.

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