The day after Election Day, this newspaper ran a long editorial calling on Pennsylvania's newly elected legislature to reduce the body's size.
Politicians, surprisingly, are supporting such a move.
House Speaker John Perzel (R-Phila.) has called for a House-Senate task force to examine reducing the legislature's size, which would hopefully bring some competition to the 56 state races that were uncontested in this election.
Or, perhaps, legislators who tried to give themselves a pay raise and then saw many incumbents swept out of office are trying to trim the cost of one of the nation's most expensive state governments.
Either way, we're happy legislators got the message.
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