regionalizing , auch: regionalising BrE

We have a tradition in the Union of being better at regionalizing epidemics than combatting them.

In Connecticut, the Governor's Commission on Quality and Integrated Education came out last December in favor of regionalizing school districts to cut costs and achieve a measure of racial and socio-economic integration.

"Instead of making every county come up with its own landfill when they have very very severe problems putting a landfill in, the state could have done this much better by regionalizing them, i.e. landfills," the chairman of the Passaic Freeholders, Richard DuHaime, said.

Otherwise, particularly if it's in dialogue, I left "as is," - in particular, Harris had a several places with incorrect non-verb agreement problems, but as the novel is told from first-person, this may have been part of Harris's regionalizing Sookie's thoughts, so I left it alone.