A Unified Northeast Corridor
Northeastern states need to collaborate on regional initiatives to compete globally.
"Northeastern states need to collaborate on regional initiatives to compete globally. Projected to grow by 18 million people in the next decades, the Northeast states need to coalesce, with joint goals and programs, if the region is to compete globally and offer an attractive place to live and work. The chief competition is no longer simply with the Midwest or California. Rather, it is with regions ranging from China's Pearl River Delta to Europe's London-to-Milan corridor...he compelling new agenda, defined at Philadelphia: how these Northeastern states coalesce to create and expand state-of-the-art transportation choices, reduce perilous greenhouse gas emissions, and protect such environmental treasures, critical to the region's survival"
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Regional Representation
I really think one of the most important and critical forms of political representation is regional. Unfortunately this level of government is almost non-existant or has very little weight. Regional boundaries are the only boundaries not arbitrarily drawn up centuries ago but rather are constantly changing and growing based on economic, social and local political concerns. By regional, I mean both 1)metropolitan regions and 2)larger multi-state regions such as the Northeast Corridor and Cascadia. As far as I'm concerned counties are worthless in urban areas and should be incorporated into a metropolitan level of government that constantly expands bringing in more rural area as the urbanized area expands, same services as county (including sheriff & courts)but just representing the entire urbanized area of a metropolitan region. Economies are regional afterall and the infrastructure serving it should be the responsibility of all within that economy. Counties are fine in predominately rural areas.
New York City has much more in common with most of Connecticut and New Jersey than most of NY state. So why not be represented politically with areas it is much more tied to? And theres several other major cities like Kansas City, St. Louis, Portland OR, Philadelphia, Washington DC to name a few where the metro region straddles at least 2 states.
I'm interested to here what others think of this.
Townships
"As far as I'm concerned counties are worthless in urban areas and should be incorporated into a metropolitan level of government that constantly expands bringing in more rural area as the urbanized area expands, same services as county (including sheriff & courts)but just representing the entire urbanized area of a metropolitan region."
Start by getting rid of these things called "townships" first.
Book representation.
Bruce Babbitt's book thinks along these very lines, Jon.
Best,
D