When costs are being driven into an equation, they have to be recovered somewhere. Why do fundamental business economics not apply to the Internet?

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These are just slush funds for conservative interest groups. These organizations would not be in existence if not for the federal dollars coming through.

This is kind of what's becoming the issue nationwide with some of these — did their winnings exceed their expenses?

Most recently, it's above that. We budget a contingency fund to deal with those extraordinary differences.

When the city has a good budget, we can plant a lot of trees, but when times are tight, you don't plant anymore than you have to.