‘Porky’ project smells bad to locals

From: The Washington Times | March 29, 2010 

RUTHSBURG, Md. | They had the pig balloons flown in overnight from Massachusetts. Twelve of them. Pink; made of mylar and filled with helium. They loomed over the casually clad crowd that had gathered in the hundreds last month to hear crisply tailored federal officials try for the third time to justify the proposed construction of a security training center sprawled across 2,000 acres of local farmland. The pigs were a reminder that many in this rural community - and virtually everyone gathered in the high school auditorium that night - viewed the federal project as wasteful. Take the $70 ...

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