Local control long gone

Bangor Daily News, December 27, 2007

(excerpt) So when town politicians cry and whine about school consolidation or scholastic requirements set by the state and federal government they are out of line. They made a deal with the devil and now they don’t want to pay up. The only way to really have local control, to avoid having the state or federal government telling a town how to run its schools, is to finance those schools (or jails or highways or whatever) totally from town funds. Anything less and you must expect to meet the requirements of your benefactor.