Barnes Legal Maneuvers, Continued

Here’s today’s Philadelphia Inquirer story about the efforts by the Montgomery County Commissioners to prevent the planned move of the Barnes Foundation to Philadelphia.
CultureGrrl reported on this yesterday, but what I didn’t know was that the county is also trying to block state funding for the project.
Jeff Shields reports:
The commissioners asked their lobbyists to try to stall the release of more than $100 million authorized by the state in 2002 for the move to Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Of that larger “authorized” amount, the state announced in October that it would actually allocate $25 million towards the move.
UPDATE: The Friends of the Barnes now have their own blog to chronicle their grassroot efforts to prevent the move [via The Art Law Blog, Mar. 1 post]