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Rogers is right

It's only fair to say Rogers Mayor Steve Womack, stymied in a plan to expropriate school taxes for city infrastructure work, is now heading the right way. He's proposing to use city property tax revenue to back bonds for major street and overpass work. Exactly right. So simple. So straightforward. Story in NW D-G.

Posted by Max Brantley on April 30, 2006 11:02 AM | Permalink

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