Is It Time for Regionalism Yet?

This story in today's Plain Dealer got me thinking. Obviously, Cuyahoga County's 57 different municipalities all have mayors, city or village council, police chiefs, etc. who will be bitterly opposed to the idea of regionalism, the elimination of some of those municipalities and the establishment of a regional government to replace them.

Will necessity, caused by the recession, be the mother of invention in this case? Can this recession finally be the catalyst we need to get the regionalism ball rolling down hill in Greater Cleveland? I certainly hope so. The need for it is pretty clear once you read that article.