By Steve Rhodes
1. “In many cases promised ‘legacy’ facilities seem designed not to meet actual needs of current park users but to accommodate the requirements of Olympic planners,” Curtis Black writes at Newstips. “In many cases they involve taking away existing resources while promising residual benefits sometime in the future. In some cases they involve taking away facilities that have been only recently built.”
2. “[M]uch of the federal money intended for schools ‘is still sitting in state coffers – despite long lists of unmet needs in many school districts’,” NPR reports. (Via This Week in Education)
Posted on August 10, 2009