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Michael2012: You mention state and local money for extending Green's main runway. Have you ever gone to a Warwick City Council budget hearing? Why don't you write a letter to the Beacon suggesting that the taxpayers of Warwick pony up to this "great economic development" opportunity and lay out some of its cash for the project. At the state level, I have not seen you at the annual RIAC hearing. Now that Kevin Dillon is gone it may not be as entertaining as in the past. But the fact remains RIAC never brings up the topic of spending taxpayer funds for airport development. Perhaps you should. That would liven up the conversation a little. Last but not least perhaps you should try to gather up some congressional support for an earmark to extend the runway. You could go on talk radio to suggest the same. Not even Kevin Dillon or the RIAC board has tried that one.

Instead of all that -- perhaps you should call on RIAC to have open hearings about whether the airlines will agree to pay for this project. The various airlines could be invited to come in -- like local business people do when they want an infrastructure improvement. Sakonnet River Bridge was a good example of that. It was really needed and local business users turned out to support it. But no airlines showed up for the environmental hearings. In fact the only actual businesses that showed up were the local hotels. Everybody else was a surrogate -- a paid mouthpiece for God knows what. You never saw the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce coming in to claim a need. Never.

The fact is that there is no political will to fund this project with taxpayers' money. If that money were available, the runway would be built by now. You talk about NIMBIES and put me in that catagory. Not true. I am a fiscal conservative who reminds our leaders that there is no political will for this project because it does not make any fiscal sense.

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