<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">The International Bridge to Windsor project has been put on hold.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">The project was originally pushed through by the Governor, without legislative approval, with the use of an &ldquo;Interlocal Agreement&rdquo; authorized under the Michigan Constitution.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Bridge construction now has been stopped because someone forgot to figure out who wold pay for cost of the &ldquo;Bridge Plaza&rdquo;.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Canada who is &ldquo;giving&rdquo; Michigan the new bridge for &ldquo;FREE&rdquo;, and you know the old adage on that, won&rsquo;t pay for the plaza and the federal government hasn&rsquo;t allocated any money for it either.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">That leaves a $250,000,000 shortfall for someone to pick up. The legislature could do that but they wouldn&rsquo;t vote for it in the first place when it was a bill.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">So now begins the &ldquo;positive, relentless, lobbying&rdquo; to see if the Governor can get somebody to pony up the money.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Any bets on the outcome?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">For an article on article on the bridge impasse click on the following link:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma"><a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/tim_skubick_detroit-windsor_br_1.htm">http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/tim_skubick_detroit-windsor_br_1.htm</a></p>