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Feds: Tenn cost for reopening Smokies $60K per day
AP via WJHL ^ | October 14, 2013 | ERIK SCHELZIG

Posted on 10/15/2013 5:58:05 AM PDT by don-o

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam says a deal to open the Great Smoky Mountains National Park parks in Tennessee for the weekend came too late for the state to send money to the federal government.

The price tag? $60,000 per day.

(Excerpt) Read more at wjhl.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; debt; govtshutdown; greatsmokymtns; parks; shutdown; waste
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To: blackdog

if TN owned it they would set their own rent


41 posted on 10/15/2013 1:22:32 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: CPOSharky

Sorry, your facetious monitor seems to be broken :P


42 posted on 10/17/2013 9:05:31 AM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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