Unlikely duo of Daniels and Cuomo crusades to shrink local government. (Stateline, 10/4/2011)
Excerpt: dislike for excessive governance below the state level. Taking his cue from a 2007 commission he appointed to look into streamlining local government — the tagline on its report read, “We’ve got to stop governing like this” — he has tried repeatedly to do away with township government [for which I admire him; emphasis added], which he considers wasteful and obsolete. Indiana's 1,008 townships carry a hodge-podge of responsibilities that, in most other states, are the job of counties: Fire and EMS services to unincorporated areas, property tax assessment, "poor relief," maintaining cemeteries, and a system of small claims courts.
The Wisconsin Towns Association doesn't go for a touchy-feely, 'voice of grassroots government' descriptor.
Wisconsin has 1,258 towns.
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