Government
Can a Town Get By Without Its Public Works Department?
Favoring privatization, a New Jersey mayor’s budget proposes to cut garbage collection, street cleaning, and more.
For a representative of the government, Mayor Stephen Acropolis is not a big fan of the government.
“It’s very difficult to say that government does anything better than the private sector,” says Acropolis, the aptly named mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey. “I can’t think of one off the top of my head.”