Every state and every region in the country is stuck with some form of anachronistic and expensive local government structure that dates to horse-drawn wagons, family farms and small-town convenience.

If this is a reset, it’s time to reorganize our state and local government structures for today’s realities rather than cling to the sensibilities of the 20th century.

Tom Brokaw on the inefficiencies of home rule and the need to “radically change the antiquated public structures that exist beyond the Beltway.” Today’s New York Times