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By MORTON J. MARCUS
INDIANAPOLIS - Have you read the Kernan-Shepard Report? Don’t feel guilty, few have. Its more formal name is “Streamlining Local Government, We’ve got to stop governing like this.” It’s a very strong, readable statement for reforming local government. Unfortunately it does not get to our root problem: local governments are creatures trained 
for obedience by their master, the Indiana General Assembly.
Although the report does not say it, there will be no reform at the local level unless the General Assembly adopts the Kernan-Shepard recommendations into legislation. What has been done thus far is only the partial elimination of township assessors, an easy target.
But what about school consolidation? Is the General Assembly ready to tackle that one? Even further, the Kernan-Shepard report did not dare go. There is no discussion of the consolidation of counties or the elimination of cities and towns.
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