More Waste in our Lean Budget
The following article from the Wilmington Newspaper shows just how much waste remains in our "lean" budget with "draconian" cuts. At some point, the people of North Carolina are going to realize that the Democrat leadership has no desire in managing our government. They seek instead to grow their own little kingdoms. Any person who can justify this project-ever how "worthy" it may be-as ESSENTIAL in a year in which we could have used the same money to hire ten teaching assistants, please let me know. The Associated Press Published: Sunday, September 27, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. - The state Transportation Department is providing more than $250,000 for a project that will tell the story of black musicians in eastern North Carolina.
The African-American Music Trails will go through Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson counties. The trail is expected to be completed in 2011.
The DOT money will pay for the development of interactive kiosks, maps and a travel guidebook.
Noted musicians from the area include Kinston natives and brothers Melvin Parker, a drummer for James Brown and Maceo Parker, a saxophonist who played with James Brown, Ray Charles and James Taylor.
The African-American Music Trails project started in 2006 as a part of an N.C. Arts Council's initiative to support sustainable growth in eastern North Carolina during a period when manufacturing and farming jobs were disappearing.
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