Taking Care of Business in the 10th CD

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President Bush's proposal to cut NASA funding and staff for aeronautics research in Ohio and at other facilities would jeopardize the country's future aircraft developments, lawmakers and industry experts told a congressional committee Wednesday.

"The budget is a disaster," said John M. Klineberg, a retired NASA manager who led a National Research Council group that examined NASA's aeronautics programs. "This program (NASA) is on its way to becoming irrelevant to the future of aeronautics in this country and in the world."

Aeronautics research, long a top priority at NASA, has led to the development of technology that helps planes fly quieter, navigate through bad weather, detect turbulence, minimize the affects of wind shear and emit less pollution.

The president's budget proposal increases NASA's overall budget 2.5 percent to $16.45 billion in 2006. But it directs more money toward his goal of space exploration, leaving less money for aeronautics programs, such as those at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park in northeast Ohio.

"We're going to take the 'A' out of it and it's just going to be the National Space Administration," Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said of NASA, which stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-10, is working on getting the Westshore traveling on sound roadways by obtaining nearly $8 million in federal funds for a half-dozen highway and transportation projects in the area.

Included in the $33.1 million in funding for the 10th District in the transportation bill which the House of Representatives approved March 10 are: construction of a bike and walking path for Fairview Park, $250,000; construction on Crocker/Stearns connection, North Olmsted and Westlake; construction of grade separation at Stearns Road, Olmsted Township, $3.75 million; construction of a grade separation, Columbia Road, Olmsted Falls, $460,000; reconstructing Lake Road (U.S. Route 6), $2 million; reconstructing Center Ridge Road(U.S. Route 20), Rocky River, $500,000.

Kucinich said the 16 total projects would provide a boost to the district