Cost-cutting measures
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You never know just where in a budget belt-tightening might occur. In Illinois, state officials considered leaving the roadkill to scavengers — vultures, crows, coyotes, etc. — instead of having highway crews burn fuel while picking up carcasses from the roadsides. But a $20 million supplemental appropriation made them change their minds and resume scraping up the dead.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
