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A metro merger wave: could it be?(Commentary)(city-county consolidations)(Column)
Could America be ready for a wave of city-county consolidations?
Until this year, it would have seemed madness to suggest so. From the 1960s, when Nashville, Jacksonville, and Indianapolis put together mergers, no major city merged until Louisville and surrounding Jefferson County voted to join in a dramatic 2000 referendum.
Even then, I treated Louisville as an odd region out-a place where an array of city and county services, economic development efforts, even a wage tax base, had been shared for years.
But rub your eyes and catch what's occurring at this very moment:
In Buffalo, Erie County Executive Joel Giambra is calling for a "New Greater Buffalo," a totally new government to replace the traditional city and county' structures that he and Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello agree are no longer viable.
Masiello argues: "Let's be bold and get away from nit-picking over who absorbs whom and creating a rehash of two older governments."
The bottom line, Giambra and Masiello insist, is that the Buffalo/Upstate New York economy is unraveling and that dramatic action is imperative to save scarce public funds and promote the region as a unified, can-do place.
- NEW YORK: Erie County Plummets.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 14, 2005 700+ words
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- NEW YORK: Erie County Conflict.
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- Magazine article from: Business First of Buffalo Thomas, G. Scott January 31, 1994 700+ words
Erie County residents are almost...splitting upstate New York and New York City...that upstaters and New York City residents share...work together. Erie County Executive Dennis...contends that Western New York benefits politically...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 28, 1998 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Business First of Buffalo Franczyk, Annemarie September 15, 1997 700+ words
...as being an extreme example in 1995. Erie County Medical Center, meanwhile, had one...99 7 6.78 TOTAL 3,595 106 3.28 Erie County Medical Center Cases Number of Surgeon...rate to 2.77 in 1996, Vari said. Erie County Medical Center A significant change...
- New York State Supreme Court, Erie County precludes expert from testifying at...
- Magazine article from: Daily Record (Rochester, NY) May 9, 2006 700+ words
...the facts in Christopher Friedrich v. Donald F. Blasz, Fuel Systems, LLC and Renae Martinelli, New York State Supreme Court, Erie County Judge Erin M. Peradotto determined that the defense had a confidential relationship with the expert...
- New York Power Authority deal in Erie County spurs renegotiation talk.
- Newspaper article from: Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY) December 7, 2005 700+ words
...renegotiate with the New York Power Authority following...city of Buffalo and Erie County will receive $279 million...settlements." The Erie County settlement of $5...prepared statement. "Erie County and Buffalo are part...frontier and western New York, ...
- Economic development agency reports increase in jobs created. (New York's Erie...
- Magazine article from: Business First of Buffalo Fink, James January 20, 1992 700+ words
A recent job survey by the Erie County Industrial Development Agency shows employment projections are just about on target for companies that received bond or incentive...
- Regionalism revisited: the effort to streamline governance in Buffalo and Erie...
- Magazine article from: Albany Law Review Bucki, Craig R. January 1, 2008 700+ words
...solidly Democratic Erie County, (10) Giambra...State University of New York at Buffalo President...Buffalo for suburban Erie County and beyond. As a new Erie County Executive takes...those provisions of New York law which may offer...
- Poll: don't raise taxes to keep bills. (Erie County, New York survey)
- Magazine article from: Business First of Buffalo Thomas, G. Scott July 28, 1997 700+ words
...sure. "People in Erie County do not want their taxes...Officials from the team, Erie County and New York state currently are...the Bills in Western New York. A Business First...that 84 percent of Erie County adults had strong or...
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