Regional awards criticized as pork barrel funding

... pork-barrel spending, and in some ways it's even worse,' said Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor, R-Fishkill, Dutchess County. 'It's very misleading to call some of these things economic-development grants. They clear a tiny little bit of some ...

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