Outside the Box

A neat case of innovative problem solving in the New York Times. I have a feeling conservatives will read this and think, "Gosh! This is exactly why we need to privatize education and everything else! It really works!" I think the title is a tad misleading, however; the "outsourcing" done by this community is hardly a case of the free market at work. I didn't see any references to healthy competition to drive down prices in say, the "security" market of Maywood. Rather, what you have here is simply a case of a city too corrupt to function bringing in trained specialists from its neighbors at what is likely a discount. It's hard to extrapolate more than that.