Millcreek Fight: A Microcosm of Larger Issues Facing Nation?
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The New York Times says the contest in Utah over whether Millcreek should form into a city reflects a larger debate "about what happens as America's suburbs grow up."

The campaign has been brutal. Names have been called, insults hurled, yard signs stolen. In these final days, volunteers are out knocking on doors, and undecided voters are awash in leaflets warning about big government and higher taxes, or the loss of crucial government services.

Romney versus Obama? Hardly. Here in the mini-malls and rolling cul-de-sacs south of Salt Lake City, the election dividing friends and neighbors is one to decide whether the suburb of Millcreek should abandon its loosely organized ways and knit itself into a bona fide city.

It is a campaign rife with many of the same fundamental issues roiling the presidential campaign: taxes, spending and the right size and role of government in people’s lives.

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