Spuds, sometimes you make great points, they are just so durn confusing its hard to find them.

Yes, we know that money is there is always there. No projects ever had funding and had it pulled or money was shifted around and never saw the area. No sir, you know that doesn't happen. *insert loud laughter here* I believe there is a thing that was called the Coalfield Expressway, was budgeted, then it wasn't, then it is, now who knows this week.

The money was there, but amazing as it may seem to you, sometimes there is procedures that have to be followed. I know that may be foreign to you being in Appy and all but I think the Power Plant over near St. Paul would be an example. The money is apparently there, but with procedures and such that have to be done, and then a very typical process that apparently wasn't going to be allowed, things can get very confusing. Same kind of a thing here.

I must have missed the point where anybody said we know what's going on, just know what has came out through the press, not Uncle Ralphie down at the Dairy Queen. I think Counts, who does follow it a great deal and tries to discuss it quite regularly with people who actually should know more, has a hard time getting information.

I'll tell you my opinion, and its probably not much more than that. There is bunch (mainly situation at Ervinton and in the Clinchco area) who are against it, and if they have any pull/stroke/ability, I'm sure that they drag their feet and don't help the process a bit. Hey my hope is that they drag their feet and then if/when they do it, they decide to go the 2 school route. Honestly I think if it happens in Wise County first, it makes Dickenson County make decisions quicker. If it happens in Dickenson County first, it makes Wise County make decisions quicker. Like it or not, those 2 counties are majorly linked. I'll make you a deal, when I can spend most of my check in Dickenson County and buy anything, then I'll not worry about what goes on Wise County. When you can spend most of your money in Dickenson County then you worry as much as you seem to about Dickenson County. If there is tax increases in Wise County to pay/fund schools being built or renovated or just to buy a 2 ton bomb to drop on Appalachia, those costs get spread to everybody who has interaction. Plus, I have some friends (believe it or not, I have friends) who are affected by it and I keep pretty close tabs on it.