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Forget Tourism - Talk Down Your Town
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04/02/2009 16:52:13
 
 
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Forget Tourism - Talk Down Your Town
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123369271403544637.html

They sound like pork projects, but in reality they will indeed create jobs...

The interesting part:

With their needs acute, some localities are abandoning boosterism, promoting their community as being more run-down than the next town. In central Maine, Pittsfield Mayor Tim Nichols says the roof on a town-owned theater is rickety, potholes are a "pain in the hiney," and underground pipes are so decrepit "you got sewers backing up in cellars and in lawns." Pittsfield would like about $6 million from Washington.

However, many of the projects are recreation in nature. If people don't have jobs or money, who will partake of them?
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