ROANOKE TIMES 

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DATE: SATURDAY, July 28, 1990                   TAG: 9007310314
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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CONSOLIDATION NOT THE WAY OF NATIONS

I WOULD like to ask that residents of Roanoke County who have decided to vote for a consolidated government or are undecided that the Roanoke Metropolitan Government is in their best interest to give serious consideration to this: If a consolidated government is such a grand and powerful idea, then why is the world divided into separate nations? Most importantly, why is this great nation of ours divided into 50 separate "sovereign" states? DENNIS A. BRAGG ROANOKE 


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