Summary
Senators and representatives to Congress earn about $170,000 annually, enjoy generous health care benefits and, if they stay in office long enough, receive a generous federal pension. Maine's selectmen and city councilors get paid pennies on the actual hours they work, may be handed an aspirin by a town clerk for the headaches they get after long, contentious meetings, and when their service ends, get a plaque expressing gratitude - if they're lucky.
Serving the town or city you love in local government is thankless work. It's also increasingly difficult, and demands skills that border on the professional. Gone are the days when selectmen would gather around a table in a farmhouse kitchen to work out the town's bills.See the full content of this document
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Thankless Hometown Duty
The same is certainly true of serving on a school board. Members often lug home reams of paper fr...
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