Penciling in some road repairs
Source: Tulsa World (Original Article)
The price for fixing our streets is reported to be $2 billion.
Two billion is two thousand millions.
That’s a lot of traffic cones.
This figure might have been more consumer-friendly expressed as $1.99 billion and change, stopping under the next big number, the way it sometimes is done with houses and vehicles.
Coming in the choppy wake of a failed big river improvement plan, it will be interesting to see how any advertising or promotional campaign for street salvage and salvation is managed. Offhand, I might think beyond using kiddies in private school gear, standing beside a pothole, singing: Please all you grown-ups, do it for us.
Children might sell trucks and sofas, but probably not taxes.
As the river is smoother than certain streets, a high-tech ferry up the big creek, Jenks to downtown, might just work one day.
Pushing for pencils: Paying for something over and beyond what’s the rule is nothing new.
Last fall I found myself at a table dedicated to helping a public school provide the basics to its students.
The project being funded at the table was not for anything extra-curricular or athletic, it wasn’t about uniforms, or sets
for a play.
It wasn’t about buying a computer for a class.
It was about pencils. Schools depend on the tax base of the district. Sometimes a few miles can seem like another world when it comes to opportunity. As they’re logging-on in one school, they might be sharing paper in the same grade level on down the way.
When you give money, this thought goes with it, however briefly, no matter the apparent neediness of the recipient: Wonder if all that’s really going to the right place?
Giving a box of pencils and a couple of Big Chief writing tablets to public school children, being thanked warmly for such a generous gift; brother.
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