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Amarillo re-entry site rejected: If not in an industrial area, where could you place these facilities?

By Gritsforbreakfast

TDCJ is finding it more difficult than you might imagine to give away money. First NIMBYism killed a new treatment center in Austin (supposedly they're looking for a new location), and now another much-needed program has been delayed up in the Golden Spread. Jobsanger rightly condemns the city of Amarillo's rejection of a counseling and treatment facility in a light-industrial zoned area, declaring that the city commission:let a small group of citizens scare them into doing a rather stupid thing last Tuesday.The Aware Program, headed by Allen Graves, is a non-profit organization that does a lot of good in the Amarillo area. They do HIV counseling and testing, drug and alcohol counseling, operate a small food bank, run a GED program, and have a program to help juvenile offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 05, 2008 (boomark / email).