Legislation would force municipal mergers

It looks like municipal consolidation is officially on the table. Here is what I wrote about the notion of consolidation in August. I suspect that forced consolidation will be the only way to shrink the number of towns, though the political fallout could be huge. Given what the locals in Cranbury and Jamesburg say, it is going to be a bumpy road getting this done.

South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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