However, there is none. Maybe we should take the Trinity River Vision money and spend it on things cities and citizens really need.
Read about it in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Read the comments too.
North Texas has benefited from earmarks, such as those set aside for the $909 million flood-control and economic-development project known as the Trinity River Vision. An earmark places a certain amount of money in a funding bill and tells a federal agency specifically how to spend it.
Granger said the federal government may be too big to work well, something she hopes can change if Republicans regain a majority in Congress.
"We are so big and so out of control," she said. "I think it will take major changes. ... It's going to be one tough job and one that won't be popular."
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