are scaling back, charging admission or cancelling their displays entirely because of shrinking budgets and plummeting tax revenues. This year, fireworks are just too frivolous. So New Providence Mayor John Thoms was grateful for the sponsorship and the role reversal. "You read in the paper about governments bailing out companies and in this case a bank bailed out a municipality," he said. New Providence staged its fireworks display Friday instead of tonight to keep costs lower. Others were less fortunate. City leaders in Rahway, N.J., cancelled their show because the $45,000 tag was enough to pay the salary of one of the eight city workers they just laid off. "It's not easy to bring someone in in the morning and tell them their job is...