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Re: Unidentified subject!

Greg Meyer (klewprod@valley-internet.net)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:05:05 -0800 (PST)

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At 10:07 PM 3/9/98 EST, T. TRAIL wrote:
>Visionaries
>
>This past week the House voted down by a 38-32 margin against expanded
>funding for public transportation. Legislators killed a plan to
>generate about $1 million
>in state funds for public transit through a $2.50 surcharge on vehicle
>titles. The
>state dollars would have attracted as much as $12 million in matching
>federal public
>transportation funds. The funds would have enable us to develop or
>expand
>public transportation in both urban and rural areas.

Kind of makes you wonder what the heck they're thinking down there in Boise.
Giving up $12 million in federal public transportation funds?! What's the
deal? Are legislators concerned the fed money would be designated to
purchase a bunch of "black heelicopters"?

Greg Meyer

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