Blocked out: a lifeline to cities, the Community Development Block' Grant program faces elimination. It will probably be saved--but it also needs fixing.(DISPATCHES)
American Prospect, The, May, 2005 by Katz, Alyssa
> HERE'S ONE WAY TO SOUND THE alarm about the impending death of a federal program that tens of millions benefit from and almost no one has heard of: Accuse President Bush of copycatting al-Qaeda. At a February meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, and National Association of Counties, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley invoked the September 11 attacks on "our metropolitan cores," then went on to say: "Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States, and with a budget axe, he is ...
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