KANSAS CITY — A factory farm in northwest Missouri has received about $250,000 in a federal funding earmark from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, provoking taxpayer watchdog groups that question what housing and urban renewal have to do with pig farms.
Federal funding to treat pig manure raises stink
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 2:55 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:39 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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