Glad tidings from Assembly Speaker

We've been critical of Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, D-Camden, for a variety of reasons in the past. But we applaud his set of proposals to increase efficiency in government. Among other things, he wants to encourage shared services, remove civil service barriers to municipal consolidation, eliminate waste in schools, end pension abuse, give county school superintendents more control over local budgets and superintendent contracts, eliminate nonoperating school districts and allow referendums on creating regional school districts.
Those are all superb ideas. They won't solve all of New Jersey's property tax problems. But they will get things moving in the right direction. Roberts should waste no time in converting the talk into action.