Zombie Towns’ Days Numbered Under Pennsylvania Bill
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Pennsylvania created its municipalities. It won’t let them die.
The state is one of 10 that don’t permit communities to dissolve, even as its steel and coal towns dwindle. Pennsylvania trails only Illinois and Texas in the number of local governments and school districts, with about 4,900. Almost 800 of its municipalities have less than 1,000 residents.