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Greg Walden: Because you mentioned West Virginia. And Rita Griffith from Pocahontas County, she is a commissioner there. She says…

On the recordFebruary 12, 2007
Because you mentioned West Virginia. And Rita Griffith from Pocahontas County, she is a commissioner there. She says nine full-time teaching positions will be cut and funding for an after-school forestry education program will be lost. She is from Pocahontas County, West Virginia. I have got examples from Alaska and Arizona to California and West Virginia, so you are right. Now, if Curry County was going to grow its way out of this problem, a county that today has 12,000 houses valued at about $250,000 each, they would have to add 35,000 houses valued at $350,000 each, quadruple the size of the county. And, unfortunately, since they are constrained by public lands----
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon

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Discussing the impact of funding cuts on education and local government challenges in various counties.

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