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Concord, MA requiring payment to keep street lights on
By: Bill O'ReillyJune 14, 2010
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Boston Globe: Like a number of cash-strapped communities, Concord is taking down hundreds of street lights to save electricity. But here the belt-tightening comes with an option: Residents can pay to keep their street lights on. Plans call for removing some 500 of the town's 2,000 street lights, primarily in residential neighborhoods. Lights will remain downtown and at intersections or turns in the road considered dangerous. But on side streets and rural roads, many will be removed unless residents agree to pay $17 a month per light, a demand that has sparked a controversy that extends to the very role that government should play in providing services.
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