1.   Banks rather than state grants have been used for investment capital as part of a strategy to protect that autonomy.

2.   Maintaining the building is covered by the State grant, but there is very little left over for anything else.

3.   Among them is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who made a brief pass at reducing the state grants during congressional budget deliberations last month.

4.   Babbitt provides little insight, beyond saying the federal funding and state grants should come from a single federal appropriation to agencies in proportion to their acreage.

5.   A retirement center has opened in town, and the county got a state grant a few years ago to market itself as a paradise for quail hunters.

6.   A state grant came through in December, and contractors promised to be finished by February.

7.   Coincidentally, Greenville and Pitt County already had applied for a state grant to address pre-storm decay at the home, including the buckling porch and leaky windows.

8.   Earlier this year, the Historic Kansas City Foundation received a state grant to determine how the tax credits could apply to the West Bottoms district.

9.   For groups that provide services to the poor through state grants, the mechanics of spending make the cuts even deeper than they appear at first.

10.   Funded by a state grant, these six-foot-high structures provide a safe haven of crevasses for fish to hide from natural predators.