Rural Maine Towns Give Up on Self-Government

NPR - National Public Radio ^ | June 10, 2005 | Howard Berkes

[MamaTexan]

How come Maine's counties don't assume these responsibilites once a town becomes too small to exist as a legal entity??

Pretty sure Maine is the same as Texas in this respect:

If you search through the statutes, you'll find the only *legal* entities are counties.

States are *political* subdivisions. Since cities, towns, etc are subdivisions of the State, they too are *political* subdivisions.

That's why the state has to assume the duties of the city and not the county.

[hoosierham]

Sounds like the problem is simply higher level gov't mandates just as Congress mandates mess up the states budgets .

Some dinky town of 145 probably could get by with one part-time constable/dog catcher/building inspector person.

If any of you think complete law enforcement is a good thing,then go read your states laws and you will find out there are so many,often contradictory regulations,that you cannot obey all the laws.

Here in Hoosierland ,I was in real danger of a quarter-million dollar fine and felony charges for failing to file enviromental paperwork for an enterprise that was only contemplated,never initiated by my deceased father. All this was based on decades old files of some county or FHA agent. Even when the official from the capitol saw with his own eyes that said enterprise did not,and had not existed,I was still required to fill out papers withdrawing the application.

Oh for the days before socialism.

[MamaTexan]

If any of you think complete law enforcement is a good thing,then go read your states laws and you will find out there are so many,often contradictory regulations,that you cannot obey all the laws.

VERY true, and reminded me of:

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow.
James Madison Federalist No. 62

[Shortwave]

For clarification we are a red state being held hostage by jackass blue state implants from Mass, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Please send help and reinforcements!

[newsgatherer]

This article is so far off based I don't kow where to start.

Albany is an unorganozed township. It's taxes have gone from 1300 on a 100,000 assesment to under 125.

As for govt. NONE, got it, NONE, need a building permit, go to the state, it is just about aurtomatic.

Their roads are better, their kids still go to the same schools.

and as for protection, well, you are welcome to go their and try somehting, my guess is you would be the one calling the cops.

One of Jakes helpers that lives in the township of Albany, unlike the npr idiot, I live there and have for the last 25 years.

PS, I'm not a proof reader, so forgive the typos if you would be so kind. I'm one of the guys Jake has recruited to go out into the woods and talk to the guys who make sure that no one crosses our border without wanting the border patrol to come and rescue them.

[newsgatherer]

Check out www.Christian-news-in-maine.com check out 96.3 FM, there are any number of Conservative outlets in Maine, they just don't get any coverage in the pph, and tabloid eight.

By the way, how come your homepage says nothing about your being from Maine?

What part of Maine are you from?

[Random Nonsense]

Ok.. Roxanne Quimby looks like a neo-hippie to me. Looking at the proposed map, that's a bloody huge area to cover:

http://www.northernskynews.com/backissue%20pages/MaineWoods.html

I'll make sure to look for area far from it.