Worthington Daily Globe: Editorial: Show Lewis & Clark the money

In a Thursday telephone conversation with the Daily Globe, Sen. Al Franken made it clear he's going to do all he can to ensure the Lewis & Clark Rural Water Project gets the funding it needs to continue moving forward.

The project, which would bring much-needed water from the Missouri River to the tri-state region, was authorized by Congress a decade ago. Franken said that if the project continued to receive $10 million in annual federal funding, it would be done — finally — by 2048. (Franken he said he has asked for $35-million-a-year funding; that would fast-forward the completion to 2018.)

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