State Parks Under Legislative Attack - Columbia Daily Tribune | Columbia Missouri: Op-Ed
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Missouri State Parks celebrates its centennial in 2017, beginning April 9 with a special exhibition in the Capitol rotunda. But state Rep. Robert Ross, R-Houston, and a few others are casting a dark shadow over the yearlong celebration of one of the best state park systems in the country. State parks have been under attack in the legislature this session, and they need your help.
More than a dozen bills would do real damage to existing parks, hobble the acquisition of new parkland and in the process hurt the people and local economies of Missouri. That is on top of the massive damage already inflicted last May, when the General Assembly removed $40 million for infrastructure rehabilitation in parks statewide from the first major bond issue for state buildings since the mid-1980s and refused to reappropriate another $15 million previously authorized.
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