1.   The state should fund the arts for the benefit of us all.

2.   This is how the state of Maryland will fund the pro football stadium in Baltimore.

3.   As a result, lawmakers last year agreed to phase out state funding to Indian charter schools over a two-year period.

4.   As part of the effort, the state has funded a series of print, billboard and TV ads that portray the hazards of smoking in the harshest terms.

5.   But state funding levels in real terms have made only small gains.

6.   For a people raised in a land where the state has always funded churches, the slow progress has frustrated many.

7.   In Britain, the state funds Christian and Jewish schools, but not Muslim schools.

8.   Knaperak said that when the Legislature agreed to phase out state funding to Indian charter schools, there were only two of them.

9.   Many states fund similar programs, but training and service requirements vary.

10.   The investigation follows a ruling by the Texas attorney general that the state should not fund medical care for illegal immigrants.