What Happens If You Shut Down City Hall?

What if they shut down city hall and nothing happened?A Maine town has become America's most extreme experiment in smallgovernment.

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August 22, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

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."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: What if they shut down city hall and nothing happened?

Wednesday, August 21, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

Government / Politics Maine

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