EDITORIAL : CIVICS LESSON, YANKEE STYLE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY TURNS DOWN FEDERAL FREEBIE.Imagine a world where people refuse to accept federal tax dollars out of principle and concern for the rest of the country. Sounds foreign, doesn't it? Or too good to be true. However, that's exactly what the town council of well-heeled Greenwich, Conn., population 57,000, did. The community was eligible for $500,000 to beautify its main shopping avenue - it already was lined with ritzy ritz·y adj. ritz·i·er, ritz·i·est Informal Elegant; fancy. [After the Ritz hotels, established by César Ritz (1850-1918), Swiss hotelier. shops - by installing quaint street lamps, fancy benches and new sidewalks. But the community (where former President Bush grew up) rejected the money from the Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-240; ISTEA, pronounced Ice-Tea) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. , which pays for the improvements to highways, streets and transit systems. Some civic-minded leaders thought the federal handout could be seen as a frivolous use of tax dollars, especially considering the country's huge budget deficit. We salute those no-nonsense Connecticut Yankees
The Nor'East United was an American soccer club based in Hartford, Connecticut that was a member of the American Soccer League. and hope their selfless self·less adj. Having, exhibiting, or motivated by no concern for oneself; unselfish: "Volunteers need both selfish and selfless motives to sustain their interest" Natalie de Combray. act and lesson in civic responsibility sweeps the country like a populist prairie fire Noun 1. prairie fire - an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area grassfire fire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire" . |
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