At 11:54 AM 5/31/01 -0500 Reggie Bautista wrote:
>By the way, the state line split in the middle of the metro causes some
>unusual difficulties. For example, anything that we want to do as a metro
>area that has to be approved by a state legislature actually has to be
>approved by *2* state legislatures, one in heavily Republican Kansas and the
>other in traditionally Democratic-leaning Missouri. In spite of obstacles
>like that, we have managed to pass more than one bi-state tax initiative
>(one recently to renovate Kansas City's "Historic Union Station").
Eh, down here we have to get rabidly-Republican Virginia,
rabidly-Democratic Maryland, practically-socialist District of Columbia
government, *and* the Federal Government to cooperate in order to do most
things. :)
JDG
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