Maybe the difficult job of crafting a budget for small towns like Hightstown and Bordentown is starting to sway local officials to consider doing more than complaining.
Hightstown is ready to study consolidation with East Windsor and Bordentown is looking at a police merger. Where will these studies lead? It’s too early to know, but the fact that the discussions are happening is a good sign for New Jersey.
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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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