The states Transportation Trust Fund faces a $2.7 billion gap between revenues and spending needed to complete needed projects by 2012. How should the state address this problem?
Many of our legislators don’t understand the difference between operating expenditures and capital investment. The Transportation Trust Fund should never have been used to fund DelDOT operations, but that has been “business as usual” for years. Delaware cannot attract high-quality employers with an overburdened transportation system and crumbling infrastructure. We need smart growth strategies that coordinate public infrastructure investments with land-use planning. Deferred maintenance of infrastructure is killing our economic competitiveness. We need leaders with the political courage to champion these investments and justify them to taxpayers. Taxes to fix potholes cost a lot less than front-end alignments. • What changes do you think are necessary to address shortcomings in health care afforded to state prison inmates? If we don’t provide adequate health care to inmates, Federal courts will make us do it. Mandatory sentencing laws have clogged our prisons with non-violent drug offe
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