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Tourism falls off at Texas parks hit hard by drought, wildfires, funding woes
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"Texans like their parks (and) are willing to pay for them," Bristol said. "Parks will pay for themselves if given any kind of meaningful support."
Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, said he is committed to again trying to get the sporting goods tax rededicated to parks and not diverted to other budget areas. Ninety-four percent is supposed to go to parks and 6 percent to the Texas Historical Commission, he said.
Of $125 million coming in, only $26 million is going toward state parks, Larson said.
"The state needs to show more discipline in using the sporting goods tax," Larson said. "I will file the bill again, and we will pursue it aggressively. It's shameful, some of the maintenance that's been deferred."
Larson challenged Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be advocates for the parks funding effort.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/jan/28/tourism-falls-off-at-texas-parks-hit-hard-by/
why don't the block quotes work on DU???
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Not sure which question you really want answered so I'll give the answer I think you are looking for.
With the new DU post and reply editor there are two buttons that do slightly different things. The one labeled "blockquote" actually indents your paragraph. This is handy if you want to indicate within a story or post that some thing was said by someone.
The other button labeled "excerpt" creates the grey bounding box around an article.
So for example in your story, I select the whole section with my mouse, and while the selection is grey on my screen showing that text selected, I then hit the excerpt button.
This is your story with the "excerpt" button applied:
"Texans like their parks (and) are willing to pay for them," Bristol said. "Parks will pay for themselves if given any kind of meaningful support."
Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, said he is committed to again trying to get the sporting goods tax rededicated to parks and not diverted to other budget areas. Ninety-four percent is supposed to go to parks and 6 percent to the Texas Historical Commission, he said.
Of $125 million coming in, only $26 million is going toward state parks, Larson said.
"The state needs to show more discipline in using the sporting goods tax," Larson said. "I will file the bill again, and we will pursue it aggressively. It's shameful, some of the maintenance that's been deferred."
Larson challenged Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be advocates for the parks funding effort.
Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, said he is committed to again trying to get the sporting goods tax rededicated to parks and not diverted to other budget areas. Ninety-four percent is supposed to go to parks and 6 percent to the Texas Historical Commission, he said.
Of $125 million coming in, only $26 million is going toward state parks, Larson said.
"The state needs to show more discipline in using the sporting goods tax," Larson said. "I will file the bill again, and we will pursue it aggressively. It's shameful, some of the maintenance that's been deferred."
Larson challenged Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be advocates for the parks funding effort.
Now if I wanted to do an excerpt in an excerpt, aka nested excerpt. I could then use the blockquote to differentiate. You sometimes want to do that if in the story you are posting, that story is quoting another story or blog and they have it nested.
In your post it would look like this below. I still have the excerpt (grey box) around the whole post, but now I have added a block quote for the middle paragraph that starts with "The state needs".
"Texans like their parks (and) are willing to pay for them," Bristol said. "Parks will pay for themselves if given any kind of meaningful support."
Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, said he is committed to again trying to get the sporting goods tax rededicated to parks and not diverted to other budget areas. Ninety-four percent is supposed to go to parks and 6 percent to the Texas Historical Commission, he said.
Of $125 million coming in, only $26 million is going toward state parks, Larson said.
Larson challenged Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be advocates for the parks funding effort.
Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, said he is committed to again trying to get the sporting goods tax rededicated to parks and not diverted to other budget areas. Ninety-four percent is supposed to go to parks and 6 percent to the Texas Historical Commission, he said.
Of $125 million coming in, only $26 million is going toward state parks, Larson said.
"The state needs to show more discipline in using the sporting goods tax," Larson said. "I will file the bill again, and we will pursue it aggressively. It's shameful, some of the maintenance that's been deferred."
Larson challenged Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be advocates for the parks funding effort.
Notice how that paragraph is now indented.
Hope that helps you understand how each of those buttons work.
The ugly little secret is that Texans already have paid more than enough to maintain the parks, but that money has been diverted elsewhere.
It sure does chap me. The parks don't really need the money because they have enough in their collections, but the Lege stole it from them anyway!
Oh how I wish we could get an advertising campaign to point this out to the people of Texas. Your parks are being stolen from you right under your nose!!
After the fire, nature is going to take it really slow to build it back up. And without state money to help speed it along with new tree plantings ... I'm afraid it will be closed.
