What Happens If You Shut Down City Hall?
22 August 2002 - 7:00am
What if they shut down city hall and nothing happened?A Maine town has become America's most extreme experiment in smallgovernment.
Lebanon, Maine has become America's most extreme experiment in small government -- residents voted to close city hall: "Indeed, a hardy skepticism of government pervades this place. After all, this town in southern Maine is just a few miles from New Hampshire, where big government is practically evil incarnate... By some accounts it worked pretty well."
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The Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 2002
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