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adopt-a-highway

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  • The group has done several community projects including the adopt-a-highway program and Pack-A-Back, which collects collects school supplies for children.

    Genthner to run for Prince William supervisor seat Jennifer Buske 2011

  • Supreme Court dismissed Missouri's challenge to a lower court's ruling that the state couldn't keep the Klan from its "adopt-a-highway" program.

    Confederate General Stirs License-Plate Flap Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • Missouri allows memorials but encourages victims 'families to participate in the state's adopt-a-highway program instead.

    Roadside(memorial)america.com 2006

  • Missouri allows memorials but encourages victims 'families to participate in the state's adopt-a-highway program instead.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • This intensified adopt-a-highway program provides business leaders with a truly visible reward for community stewardship, one not measured in the profit-and-loss sheets of boardrooms but along the miles of these "landscaped riverbanks."

    MAIL CALL AND CORRECTIONS 2008

  • According to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, nationalist organizations join in these adopt-a-highway programs as a way to improve the public's perception of them.

    Nationalism offends French-minded blue-staters 2005

  • Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court refuses to consider a Ku Klux Klan adopt-a-highway case.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2005 2005

  • The "adopt-a-highway" project is run in much the same way as

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • According to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, nationalist organizations join in these adopt-a-highway programs as a way to improve the public's perception of them.

    Archive 2005-01-30 2005

  • Within a few years, hundreds of collectives, large and small, have deeply embedded themselves in the state, paying more than $100 million in sales taxes, joining local chambers of commerce and better business bureaus, even appearing on "adopt-a-highway" signs.

    NYT > Home Page By ERIK ECKHOLM 2011

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