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Contracts, Crime and Critters
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A contract gets signed, a check gets cut, the city council approves the check without questioning it. There's enough embarrassment to go around with this one. We walk through the story in which a grant-funded documentary tied to the planned airport museum honoring Tuskegee Airman Alva Temple suddenly becomes a case study in municipal oversight, public funds and who is responsible when procedures break down.
From there, we change gears to two issues people feel every day. On violent crime, we talk about why community policing cannot be a one-way street…
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