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Whose stimulus? Buy local with tax dollars
But what are our tax dollars buying?
In Utah, $79 million is being spent on improving drinking water. School districts in Georgia are receiving $660 million. Nebraska received $1 million to maintain national wildlife refuges.
But what about Washington? In particular, will our tax dollars help build the Desert Claim Wind Power Project in Kittitas County?
April 30, 2009
in Columbia Basin Herald
Stimulus money seems to be talked about everywhere. It's supposed to be used to help create jobs and stimulate our economy.
Nothing wrong with that.
But what are our tax dollars buying?
In Utah, $79 million is being spent on improving drinking water. School districts in Georgia are receiving $660 million. Nebraska received $1 million to maintain national wildlife refuges.
But what about Washington? In particular, will our tax dollars help build the Desert Claim Wind Power Project in Kittitas County?
The project has been a controversy since it began.
In 2005 Kittitas County commissioners rejected plans for a 120 turbine wind farm on 5,237... [continue via Web link]
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