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Funding national parks: Doing less with less.
The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, March 31:
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Every time the national terrorism alert rises from yellow to orange, the National Park Service dispatches extra rangers to guard the nation's patriotic icons _ the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and Washington's monuments _ at a cost of $66,000 a day.
This has been happening regularly since Sept. 11, 2001, but Congress hasn't sent the Park Service any extra money for homeland security.
Nor has Congress helped out with $170 million in mandatory federal pay raises or an unexpected $50 million in wildland firefighting or $150 million in ...
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