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Missouri loves company: This week, a St. Louis think tank unveiled a proposal to combine the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County into a new local government: a metropolitan city. The proposal, which could see a statewide vote as soon as 2020, would essentially do away with the present city government and transform St. Louis into the 10th largest city in the United States, with 1.3 million people. This kind of city-county merger has been done before—in Nashville, Indianapolis, and Louisville, for example—but it’s a rare move, because it’s so difficult to pull off.