Rank of Cities with Highest Terror Risk

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(AP) WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department's 2007 list of cities at the highest risk of terrorism comes out Wednesday. Some big towns may not make the cut.

Being listed means a share in a $740 million anti-terror grant. That's down from $855 million Congress provided a year ago. The downside of making the list is that the feds think your city is in more danger than most.

The funding is part of an overall $1.7 billion Homeland Security grant program to prevent and respond to terror attacks.

Eleven cities, including Las Vegas and San Diego, may be booted in 2007. The new Homeland Security formula is based largely on intelligence about terror threats and the possible consequences.

Population is just one factor.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in rural Pennsylvania.

Six years earlier, on April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed when domestic terrorists detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

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New York Terror Grants Cut

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Next year, New York City will get just $124.5 million in anti-terrorism grants from a special program for cities at high risk of attack. That's a cut of some 40 percent from the previous year.

The United States Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to announce grant amounts for 46 cities today. It's splitting up a $740 million pot of funds.

The Associated Press says it was given the dollar figures for New York and Buffalo by several congressional aides who spoke to them on condition of anonymity.

A fierce competition has grown among cities for the Urban Area Security Initiative money, with dozens of towns fighting to prove they need the extra funds to protect thmselves four and a half years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The UASI money is not the only source of grants for cities but it is important to New York. In 2005, it brought the city $166 million, and that amounted to 75 percent of all the federal grant money the city saw for anti-terror initiatives that year.

New York officials, from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to members of Congress, have long complained the government scattered too much money to rural, low-threat areas at the expense of big cities like New York.

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(AP) The Homeland Security Department divided $740 million among 46 cities Wednesday as part of a $1.7 billion counterterrorism grant fund for 2006. While each state will get some money, the grants for cities make up the largest chunk of the funding, which has always been the subject of fierce lobbying by local leaders and members of Congress.

A state-by-state look at what the cities got this year, compared to 2005:

ARIZONA. Phoenix: $3.9 million in 2006, $9.9 million in 2005.

CALIFORNIA. Anaheim/Santa Ana: $11.9 million, down from $19.8 million; San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose-Bay Area: $28.3 million, $33 million; Los Angeles/Long Beach: $80.6 million, $69 million; Sacramento: $7.3 million from $6 million; San Diego: $7.9 million from $14.7 million.

COLORADO. Denver: $4.3 million, down from $8.7 million.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (encompasses the National Capital Region, including Washington and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs). $46.4 million from $77.5 million.

FLORIDA. Ft. Lauderdale: $9.9 million, from zero; Jacksonville: $9.2 million, from $6.8 million; Miami: $15.9 million, from $15.8 million; Orlando: $9.4 million, from zero; Tampa: $8.8 million, from $7.7 million.

GEORGIA. Atlanta: $18.6 million, down from $13.1 million.

HAWAII. Honolulu: $4.7 million, from $6.4 million.

ILLINOIS. Chicago: $52.2 million, from $45 million.

INDIANA. Indianapolis: $4.3 million, from $5.6 million.

KENTUCKY. Louisville: $8.5 million, from $5 million.

LOUISIANA. Baton Rouge: $3.7 million, from $5.2 million; New Orleans: $4.6 million, from $9.3 million.

MASSACHUSSETS. Boston: $18.2 million, from $26 million.

MARYLAND. Baltimore: $9.6 million, from $11.3 million.

MICHIGAN. Detroit: $18.6 million, from $17 million.

MINNESOTA. Minneapolis/St. Paul: $4.3 million, from $5.7 million.

MISSOURI. Kansas City: $9.2 million, from $8.2 million; St. Louis: $9.2 million, from $7 million.

NORTH CAROLINA. Charlotte: $8.9 million, from $5.4 million.

NEBRASKA. Omaha: $8.3, from $5.1 million.

NEW JERSEY. Jersey City/Newark: $34.3 million, from $19 million.

NEVADA. Las Vegas: $7.7 million, from $8.4 million.

NEW YORK. Buffalo: $3.7 million, from $7.2 million; New York City: $124 million, from $207 million.

OHIO. Cincinnati: $4.6 million, from $5.8 million; Cleveland: $4.7 million, from $7.3 million; Columbus: $4.3 million, from $7.5 million; Toledo: $3.8 million, from $5.3 million.

OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma City: $4.1 million, from $5.5 million.

OREGON. Portland: $9.3 million, from $10.3 million.

PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia: $19.5 million, from $22.8 million; Pittsburgh: $4.8 million, from $9.6 million.

TENNESSEE. Memphis: $4.2 million, from zero.

TEXAS. Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington: $13.8 million, from $24 million; Houston: $16.6 million, from $18.5 million; San Antonio: $4.4 million, from $5.9 million.

WASHINGTON. Seattle: $9.1 million, from $11.8 million.

WISCONSIN. Milwaukee: $8.5 million, from $6.3 million.

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Am i the only one concerned that Connecticut didn't get money for it's major cities? Last time I looked, cities like Stamford (with the largest rail station in the northeast besides Grand Central) and New Haven (strategic petroleum reserves) were important cities to protect. Can someone help clarify this?

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Omaha, Nebraska getting 5 million but Stamford or New Haven getting none? Give me a break

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New York Terror Grants Cut

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Next year, New York City will get just $124.5 million in anti-terrorism grants from a special program for cities at high risk of attack. That's a cut of some 40 percent from the previous year.

I don't want to steer this into a political debate, but if NYC is going to lose 40% of its anti-terror funding, I don't want to hear Bush say diddly crap about 9/11 for the next 2 years.

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I don't want to steer this into a political debate, but if NYC is going to lose 40% of its anti-terror funding, I don't want to hear Bush say diddly crap about 9/11 for the next 2 years.

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I'm with you on that statement. I wish that bush would just get out of office all together. All he has done is raise gas prices and lower our defences for another attack. I'm not trying to hyjack, but this is just my oppion on the cuts he's doing on this and the other brilant stuff he has done for us.