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NCCIVITAS.ORG I Volume V, Issue 4 I
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LIMITED GOVERNMENT
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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Senate Leader's Family Gets StatePier Contract•• JANA BENSCOTER
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, get people back to workhas now rurncd in ro a problem torthe brains of till" operation, SenatePresident Pro Tempore Marc Basnight(D- Dare). lr xccrn-. Ill' Illay be cupi-rali/ing on the muh i-rn illion dollar[cnncrrcs I'il'r project he encouraged.Despite rhl' Llet rh.u most construe-rio n johs are rempurary, jobs ~Hrhe!\:ags Head sire ~If)pear to have alreadybeen earmarked for employees ar hisLlll1iIY-OWIIl'l1 husiIless riglll after thel'COIlOI11V rook ,I [urn lor the worse.
Ihsniglll C()n~Muctiun h~ls beenworking 011 t hc S2,) million fishing pier,wh ieh has J 16,O()() square loor pierhou ...,e.urachcd to it, ~()r several months,TIll' .srarc-Iundcd project was awarded toClancy & Thl'Ys - rhl' general conrrac-[Or - within 24 hours oflcgisbriveapproval in April 20()t), Clancy & Theysalrcadv had subcontractors lined up,
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