Challenging budget circumstances and an ongoing urban-rural rift in the Legislature has a state lawmaker renewing calls for local governments to be charged fees for state police coverage if they don’t have a municipal police department. Proponents say allowing municipalities to rely on state police is unfair to the roughly 75% of the state population who live in communities with local police and pay local taxes to support their municipal police departments. Opponents of previous efforts to enact the state police fee have said the scheme would be too much of a strain on the budgets of ...