A further reminder just in case anyone’s still hazy on the nature of the fiscal partnership between government and cigarette-sellers ushered in by the 1998 state/tobacco settlement:
A sizeable boost in anticipated tobacco settlement funds for Steuben County could bolster a recent proposal to blacktop more than 10 miles of county roads.
County Administrator Mark Alger said Thursday the county will receive $6 million in new tobacco funds instead of the $792,000 to $1 million announced in late June. The new funds are due to a change in tobacco industry profits.
(Mary Perham, “County gets tobacco funds boost”, Corning (N.Y.) Leader, Sept. 9).
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