http://www.blackinformant.com/headlines/just-hurry-up-and-spend-it Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackinformant.com/headlines/just-hurry-up-and-spend-it/comment-page-1#comment-11233 S. Cain Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:39:35 +0000 http://www.blackinformant.com/?p=10293#comment-11233 We have the same deal in my city, Oberlin OH (aka 'The Town that Started the Civil War', aka 'Station 99' on the Underground Railroad [we also founded the Anti-Saloon League of all things; the 'Prohibition movement'/18th Amendment]). We want to turn an historic gas-holder building formerly owned by a prominent town developer that sits in the Black quarter of town into a Underground Railroad museum, next to a bike path that was once an actual rail line. The Fed grants are there, supposedly...I went to a city council meeting and there were still phone calls to be made to confirm the funding still exist, but 6 years later we are still in the 'surveys and studies' phase for some boggling reason. Never mind that there is a sound consensus from all quarters that it should be built post haste. We have the same deal in my city, Oberlin OH (aka ‘The Town that Started the Civil War’, aka ‘Station 99′ on the Underground Railroad [we also founded the Anti-Saloon League of all things; the 'Prohibition movement'/18th Amendment]). We want to turn an historic gas-holder building formerly owned by a prominent town developer that sits in the Black quarter of town into a Underground Railroad museum, next to a bike path that was once an actual rail line. The Fed grants are there, supposedly…I went to a city council meeting and there were still phone calls to be made to confirm the funding still exist, but 6 years later we are still in the ‘surveys and studies’ phase for some boggling reason. Never mind that there is a sound consensus from all quarters that it should be built post haste.

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