Roswell airport gets $9M in federal funding

[TexasTowelie]

The Roswell airport has received a federal grant that will help boost planned renovations.

The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports that the Roswell International Air Center has been awarded $9 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The funds will go toward the third phase of a four-phase project to bolster 5,000 feet of runway.

U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced the grant earlier in the week in a news release.

Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/607866/abqnewsseeker/roswell-airport-gets-9m-in-federal-funding.html

[font color=330099]Because we don't need anymore alien spaceships crash landing![/font]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I've been to the Roswell Airport.

Taxied right past the big old hangar where they hid the alien spaceship.

[Warpy]

2. Rozzie lives on tourist and retiree money

so it's good seeing infrastructure improvements there. Plus, it'll give some people JOBS.

[vinny9698]

3. Those same retirees who hate government spending

Why are they not protesting government spending? Because they want money but they do not want any one else to get federal dollars. Complaining about FEMA money going to other states, but when a disaster hits, first ones in the FEMA line.

[Warpy]

4. Well Rozzie gets a slightly better group of them

than Florida does because they have to be capable of researching an area. But yes, they're largely military, meaning they've got theirs, they're wrapped in the flag, and to hell with everybody else.