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To: High Cotton
Related but different subject ... the Cincinnati Underground Museum, dedicated to the history of slaves who made their way north in the pre-Civil War period opened eighteen months ago. Millions in funding were raised by tapping mostly local business and private individuals. The Museum located in downtown Cincinnati, on the banks of the banks of the Ohio River, opened to much fan fare. At the time it was estimated public interest would generate sufficient funding to make it viable, cost wise, for years to come. To date it has been running in the red ... and earlier this week, for the first time, public funding is being sought to keep the doors open. My guess, when it first opened, initial interest would keep it profitable probably two years, perhaps three, before tax payers would be expected to bail it out. Well, as it turns out it never turned a dime in profit, in fact didn't even break even ... why are things like this so predictable?
77 posted on 03/17/2006 11:20:35 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

Freedom Center has a plan to get out

78 posted on 03/17/2006 11:49:12 AM PST by TexKat
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To: BluH2o
Well, as it turns out it never turned a dime in profit, in fact didn't even break even ... why are things like this so predictable?

The wave of the future, I'm telling ya!

124 posted on 03/18/2006 12:14:55 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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