Certain bills passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year have left Bandera Mayor Suzanne Schauman somewhat alarmed. “I think (the legislature) is doing the best it can to shut cities down,” said Schauman last week after hearing City Attorney T. Daniel Santee provide Bandera City Council with a Legislative Update reviewing the impact that new legislation would have on cities. Of particular concern were a bill that in Santee’s words would effectively prohibit cities the size of Bandera from undertaking an annexation unless the annexation was voluntary, or acceptable to residents in the area targeted for annexation, and another bill that ...