The backlash over fireworks legalization continues to grow:
Three Northwest Indiana legislators who voted this year to legalize fireworks now say they want to give cities and counties the power to impose tighter restrictions on backyard barrages.
A fourth local lawmaker, meanwhile, says he wants to completely scrap Indiana's new fireworks law and make sparklers the only Independence Day incendiary device available to Hoosiers.
With Gov. Daniels backing local control and some legislators now getting on board, that seems like a good bet. But what kind of local control? Letting cities ban some types of fireworks now authorized by the state? Or merely letting them regulate the fireworks in line with their noise-control ordinances, which would let Fort Wayne, for example, cut them off at 9 p.m. instead of 11?
