Hasta La Ideas

After years of debate and miscellaneous stumbling blocks, it looked like construction on the Flight 93 Memorial in rural Pennsylvania was finally going to get underway when a groundbreaking ceremony happened early last month. But now we’ve seen some movement in the state that could potentially disrupt whatever forward momentum had finally been built. First, Pennsylvania’s governor, Edward Rendell, has announced that, should an upcoming gambling bill not pass, the state would be forced to do some heavy trimming, including cutting jobs and closing things like parks and museums. These cuts aren’t directly addressed to the Memorial, and are likely a scare tactic to force the bill through, but one can make the leap from one to the other fairly easily. In more fortunate news, Congressman Bill Shuster just gave the Memorial project two big checks at this week, one for $4 million and another for $100,000 (but that’s to build a cell phone tower near the site). Good news, except for the other story hot on its heels that a contractor has filed suit against the project, claiming it should have been selected to help build the Memorial and not the firm who was ultimately given the contract. Until that suit is settled, all construction has been brought to a halt. So will the Memorial open by September 11th of 2011 or join its neighbors in New York in seeing delay after delay?

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