Looking at counties again

In a post last June, I wondered whether we should not begin examining whether we really need counties.

 

http://ccmusings.blogspot.com/2008/06/counties-do-we-need-them.html

 

Now legislators are proposing merging Stearns, Benton, and part of Sherburne Counties.  The bill, which would put all of St. Cloud in one county caught media attention by the bill’s proposed temporary name for the new county, “Lake Wobegon.”  The merger may have merit, even if the name doesn’t, but there will be several politicians and bureaucrats fearing for job security to pacify.  [And what would we do with the rest of Sherburne?  Append it to Anoka?]

Maybe we could just look at what I asked in June.  There would be more hoops to jump, but we might have one, uniform statewide arragement.