Regionalism: The next wave of public-service delivery

Federal support is receding, and the strain is rolling downhill to states, cities, and the neighbors who run them. Roger J. Cohen argues that this moment could spark a reinvention: regional councils and planning bodies—big enough to gain scale, close enough to stay accountable—are poised to tackle cross-border problems from housing to transportation. The promise isn’t nostalgia for the old model; it’s a pragmatic new federalism from the ground up, where collaboration, not partisanship, becomes the engine of public service. Read Mr. Cohen’s full commentary at Route Fifty.

Roger J. Cohen

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