TxDOT officials in January had agreed that the agency needs an additional $4 billion a year to maintain current traffic levels. Texas has increasingly relied on debt financing and tolls to expand the highway system.
A budget conflict came to a head in Johnson County, NC yesterday, when the police chief demanded more money for fuel, or else police would have to stop responding to some 911 calls and investigating misdemeanors.
NPR is funded by taxpayers anyway, so it's not like they really got local funding in the first place. Maybe it's because I am a 'Techy" person who uses the internet constantly, but there is not a single service that NPR offers that I can not find online.