More on how to spend the $180 million earmarked to build a fake rainforest in Coralville here and here and here.



(Yes, I understand that the money can't be routed to other projects. But understand how insane it is to spend money on that fluff when we're having tremendous budgeting problems at our schools, cutting our troopers back to the level of patrols we had in the 1960's, and we can't afford to supply defibrillators that could save lives).