Time has come to regionalize towns, consolidate school districts

From the EXPRESS-TIMES’ opinion staff:

Thomas Caltagirone, a state representative from Reading, is just plain crazy…

He wants to start the process – which requires amending the state Constituition – to conjoin the state’s 2,562 municipaplities into 67 county governments.

As we said, nuts. Certifiable.

Except … except that if you’re listening to everything going on in local government and school districts these days, this old model is gaining traction. Budgets and taxes have reached a breaking point, but, more importantly, taxpayers and municipal officials are starting to come around…

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