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Utah tallies $12B in road projects

The reddest state in the union will get their money at #50 on the list. That is the way it works in this party. Those that vote right go to the top of the list, those that want the same ole GREEDY, lying, cheating ways go to the back of the line. So sorry most of you in that state just don't understand.

It's either KIDS or road's, Utah can't have it both ways in that now socialist tax and spend OPM's Red State.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program is a federal-state grant program that subsidizes the cost of insuring children in families that make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to purchase private health insurance. By making sure children have access to health care we can help to reverse the future of diabetes and the staggering costs of this disease.

Right now, one in every three children born will develop diabetes if current trends continue. For minority children things are even worse, with one in two African American or Latino children developing diabetes.

Medical bills are more than double for people with diabetes than without - this is a burden that families covered by SCHIP simply cannot afford. Yet a child with diabetes but without health insurance, is a child that is not only at high risk for the immediate life-threatening complications of diabetes, but faces a future with the increased likelihood of the long term complications including blindness, kidney disease, heart disease and amputation.

So the Federal government is going to give large amounts of states to cash who don't have highway projects ready to go, and states that do may not get much money. I thought Obama was in a hurry to stimulate the economy and requested states submit requests for projects that were ready to go. Sounds like the feds aren't too enthused about stimulating the economy quickly when they give states billions of dollars that will sit around waiting for 2 year impact studies to be completed. I wonder how our country even functions at all with these clowns we send to D.C.

Brother Chuck, didn't the Democrats pass a SCHIP bill a year ago that was vetoed by Bush? It was overridden in the Senate but the House Republicans killed it.

Don't worry though, The US house just yesterday passed it again. The Senate is expected to pass it next week and President Obama will sign it into law this time

It's all politics. Demo states will be the big winners in the $$$ battle, why would they care to share with those states who didn't vote their way? That's the way of politics.

Well, so-sorry-utah has it all upside down and backward. Utah was recognized by the PEW Center on the States, in its Government Performance Project as the best managed state in the U.S.. (Although I disagree with one major part of that...in our transit scam gullibility). Our UDOT was also at the top in their road planning/management in a previous ranking.

This so-sorry commenter likely has one thing right, left-wing thought control and groupthink are likely to play a big part in who gets paid back for their votes for Obama last November.

The essential pieces in the transportation jigsaw puzzle are making sure we stabilize and maintain existing roadways, and build not a single new road. Instead we need plan our transportation infrastructure to respond to our 21st century understanding of mobility--mass transit, elegant bikeways, and walkable town and neighborhood centers.

No new roads!!