Pork chop

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:03:26 -0400

House budget writers today chopped out money for a proposed drag racing museum, a culinary school in Charlotte and other projects that some critics have labeled pork.

The roughly $20 million in cuts were redirected to other programs. The home furnishings industry would receive an additional $875,000 in marketing money, the One North Carolina Fund of economic incentive grants would gain another $1 million, and an education building at UNC-Asheville would receive an additional $8.5 million, Dan Kane reports.

Viticulture promotion and an incubator for national defense and homeland security related businesses would each receive $1 million.

The cuts were adopted by the House Appropriations Committee as it began combing through the 227-page proposed budget.

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