Millions in state parks grant money rescinded
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State Controller Steve Westly yesterday issued a scathing review of state parks grants and ordered the return of $15 million in unspent money â-bout $2.
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By BegoNe Cazalis, The Miami Herald  Jun. 3--When Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed projects worth $24 million for Miami-Dade County, he eliminated a $5.3 million allocation to help build a new water treatment plant in Hialeah.
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Virginia has $5 million in grant money available for localities, public agencies and nonprofit groups to conserve land.  The grants are available through the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, which works to protect historic or environmentally important lands.  Gov. Timothy M.
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California has stopped acquiring land for state parks for the foreseeable future because it cannot afford to staff and maintain new parkland, according to a newspaper report.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  - Satellite fields surrounding the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field will no longer be allowed to take  advantage of a state tax break that was intended to encourage  development of marginal deposits, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski  said on Wednesday.
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By Tom Kenworthy  A federal judge in California on Wednesday struck down Bush administration rules for development on nearly all 58.5million acres of "roadless" National Forest land and reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road-building, logging, drilling and other activities.
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I'm outraged, but not surprised, that the state is funding the stadium deal for Real Salt Lake. It's typical Utah state government corruption and cronyism. Help the wealthy. I've run a business in Utah for years and have never received a cent.
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Congress is again adding hundreds of millions of new dollars to the Pell Grant program for low-income college students, but it's also allowing a procedural change that would cut &#151; and in some cases eliminate &#151; grant eligibility for as many as 1 million students.
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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By The Associated Press  The state program to save agricultural land from development is out of money, leaving more than 600 applications from farmers to keep more than 120,000 acres of farm land in limbo.
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The Federal Election Commission yesterday slapped heavy fines on three independent fundraising groups it said had illegally injected tens of millions of dollars into the 2004 presidential campaign, concluding unanimously that the funds were drawn from large donors and corporations in violation of...
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Plans to spend Â£21m of public money on a visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway are dropped.
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By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jan. 31--GEORGETOWN -- A new cap on property values could make funding future capital projects in Georgetown County more difficult by limiting tax revenue, officials said.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jan. 30--Federal wildlife officials have halted review of a $110 million water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, effectively sending planners back to the drafting table on a project they considered vital to water quality.
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com. Gov. Phil Bredesen Wednesday announced he was pulling the plug on the stateâs $7.8 billion TennCare program, which could result in a loss of insurance coverage for up to 430,000 Tennesseans.
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Officials on Monday disbursed $1.8 million in federal money for North Dakota ranchers who lost forage to drought.  The money was provided to the state through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Livestock Assistance Grant Program.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.