"Tribes are now teaming up with a tourism group and the National Park Service to tell a new story for Route 66 travelers. During the next year, the plan is to create a guidebook using federal grant money....
So which well-connected friend or concern will be getting that contract (as this government slashes social service spending in health, food stamps, unemployment)?
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Yeah, never mind the $hit $hape of the schools:
"In the US Bureau of Indian Education system, students at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig speak highly of their teachers — “If the kids are going into a school with a leaky roof and a bad smell, that’s a value thing, that nobody cares” -- Officials at the US Department of the Interior say they are working to improve schools. But with limited funding and a backlog of repairs — the government estimates that it would cost $1.3 billion to restore all buildings to good condition — some administrators and students wonder when they will see the fruits of those policies."
How about never?
Time to hit the road again.
I'll be raking leaves today before we get any snow or it gets colder here, readers, so I may not be back.
