Adopt a highway

/ dave / arouet at winternet.com
Wed Mar 7 21:18:55 PST 2001


qualiall_2 at yahoo.com wrote:


> The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Missouri
> cannot bar a white supremicist group from participating in a
> litter-control programme.
> The state was fighting to keep the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) from "adopting" a
> highway. Under the Adopt-a-Highway scheme, groups agree to clean a
> stretch of road in exchange for a sign acknowledging their efforts.

Word is, from one of the Missouri Highway Dept. officials, that there has been a noticeable lack of litter-removal activity on the Klan's stretch of highway - i.e., they're apparently not holding up their end on a practical level and so could be booted from the program on a technicality. Of course, the legal precedent cited above still holds...

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/ dave /



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