>>... good lord, really?
>
>Yup. Really.
>
>Paraphrased somewhat for brevity, the council's logic is, "It costs
>money and people nowadays don't read anyway. Also, something
>something the Internet."
>

If Millinocket offered free Internet access to all its residents, they might have one-quarter of an argument there. Maybe.

Since, as far as I'm aware, no municipality in the United States does this...

>
>This man, by the by, is no longer the chairman of the Town Council,
>nor even a member of the Town Council...
>
>... because that body hired him to be town manager.
>

Thus do we refute Lawrence J. Peter's hypothesis of management.

Peter Eng
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