once a booming steel town has been a bankrupt or act 47 municipality since 1988. mayor john fedderman believes opening a medical marijuana fa facility would bring back jobs and help revive the troubled town. medical marijuana could provide enough financial assistance to pull us out of act 47 and create a magnet business that would bring in other support businesses. pennsylvania awarded its first dozen medical marijuana permits this week while braddoc was not picked he hopes his town will be next. what i hope our community shows is that no place is too far gone to begin the process. a process that worked in smith falls canada. we recognize that we had to be new and innovative and open to new ideas this we are going to transform the future of the community. smith falls population 9,000 lost 600 jobs when the hershey factory moved to mexico.
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railroading town, they re under act 47 in pennsylvania now financially stressed, they ve lost their middle-class, people have moved out, they ve raised property taxes by 20%. they re trying desperately to do something to restore that town that was founded in the mid-1700s and has been part of the industrial part of america. nasa county out on long island, in effect being taken over by the state of new york because they re in so much trouble. we have real issues. i think what i feel very strongly is, that we all got into this. this is a republican and democratic and independent problem. i mean, this began some time ago. it was all in president george w. bush unfunded prescription drug benefits for seniors and medicare. that is running over a trillion dollars now. you know, we ve got a lost issues. the only way we re going to get them resolved is we find a way on a common path. we re going to have to make there s going to be pain.