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Take 10 — Or What to Do w/$247M Surplus

Item: State has $247 million extra: Official suggests using it to fix roads/Betsy Russell, Spokesman-Review

Question: How do you want to see the $247M used?

1. Fix Highway 95 -- not just Boise's
2. Eliminate sales tax on food
3. Restore early childhood education funding
4. Quit bugging Indian tribes about rez gas revenue
5. Build larger underground wings at capital
6. Upgrade parks
7. Tax relief
8. Fix unsafe schools (as courts have ordered time and again)
9. Capital facilities projects at Idaho colleges (not just the new Western Idaho College)
10. Other?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.