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When one is better than two By Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham and Roger Bowen “Local control” (or “home rule”) is a term used widely to refer to each Maine town’s preference for self-government on issues of immediate importance to town residents. The town meeting form of government in New England gives citizens the power to legislate, albeit circumscribed by the recommendations made by town boards of selectmen, which serve in executive capacity.  The system works but not always well. The absence of term limits on selectmen too often results in the same old faces spouting the same old bromides. As former members of our respective town boards of selectmen, we both can cite instances when invocations of some long-forgotten tradition, whether accurately rendered or not, urged deference to past practice. “We tried that x years ago and it didn’t work.” Perhaps, but this is a new era of rising property taxes and increasing traffic on Peninsula roads, especially in the summer

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