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6. Hey Donald, I found where the money went
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:41 PM
Jul 2019

Seems the Republican governor of Maryland diverted a whole lot of state money that was supposed to be spent on Baltimore:

The Baltimore Sun has it here.

Hogan shifts money to roads, but not everyone's a winner

In shifting Maryland's transportation priorities from transit projects to roads, the Republican made clear that as long as he is governor, asphalt will flow freely.

But not necessarily evenly.

The list of major new projects that Hogan funded includes big-ticket highway improvements for rural Maryland, from Garrett County in the west to the Eastern Shore. There are projects costing $100 million or more in Prince George's, Montgomery and Frederick counties. In Baltimore City? Nothing. In Baltimore County? Less than 1 percent of spending for new projects.

"It does appear that a lot of this is not in the Baltimore area. That's pretty striking," said Andrew Farkas, director of the National Transportation Center at Morgan State University.


"Striking" is a nice way of putting this diversion of funds from black majority areas to white majority areas.
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