North Carolina cities and towns are likely to put up a fierce fight to maintain their existing power to annex at will, now that the House Select Committee on Municipal Annexation has voted to recommend a year-long moratorium on forced annexations and satellite annexations. This Herald-Sun story lays out Durham’s opposition. Here’s what Locke Foundation Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst wrote about the proposed moratorium last week, and here is a more detailed explanation of North Carolina’s current law and process, which Bakst calls “flawed and undemocratic.”