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| | If You're Not at the Table, You're on the Menu |
 | | Actually, the infrastructure of democracy is pretty good for the Arsenal cleanup, with an active Restoration Advisory Board and responsive, responsible people from the Army, OEPA, USEPA working for a good cleanup despite low budgets, aging equipment, entangled jurisdictions, proliferating regulations, and constant criticism from the public, the media and politicians. |
 | | Portage County has a model recycling program; Kent created a river-restoration project for the Middle Cuyahoga River that is better than anyone imagined possible just a few years ago. |
 | | Ohio parents, students, property-owners and community groups need to pull up chairs at the table where school funding is being discussed and work out a way to fund schools that is constitutional and equitable. |
| www.commondreams.org /views05/0213-03.htm (991 words) |
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