The News-Press: Cape Coral - Mom upset after Cape official pulls 'Welcome Back Soldier' sign
I have this uneasy sensation that suburban municipalities are gradually behaving more and more like HOAs. It's a bit like that old SF movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The city goes to sleep, and somebody puts a pod down next to it. In the morning the city is gone, and a pod-city that looks just like the city but acts like an HOA has taken its place.

A Cape Coral mother was upset Tuesday when a city worker removed a small, homemade sign and yellow ribbons, welcoming her daughter home from Iraq, for violating a local ordinance.