FULL AUDIO: Adams on The Morning Edition with Reuben Perdue
Listen as West Virginia Watchdog Managing Editor Steven Allen Adams is interviewed on The Morning Edition with Reuben Perdue on WAJR FM. The two talked on Tuesday about phantom zip codes, Rep. Alan Mollohan, and the importance of transparency. You can listen to The Morning Edition with Reuben Perdue every morning 9 a.m. to 10 [...]
Read More →UPDATE: Transparency Board Official Calls Phantom ZIPs “Nonsense”
*Correction: The 18902 ZIP code in Pennsylvania is located in Doylestown, PA and is real. We apologize for the error.
The Federal Transportation Administration is sending more than $11 million to Pierce Transportation so residents of Washington’s 98900 ZIP Code get nine diesel-electric buses. The project is just getting off the ground and has created 52 [...]
WV Watchdog Takes Phantom ZIPs to Airwaves
Watchdog Reporter Steven Adams explaining phantom ZIP codes to WAJR AM:
An afternoon with Steve Adams
UPDATE: $700K in Minnesota’s Phantom ZIP Codes
By Tom Steward
Minneapolis, MN—More than $700,000 in stimulus spending in Minnesota has been reported in three zip codes that do not exist, according to a Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) analysis of the federal government’s stimulus tracking website at recovery.gov and the U.S. Postal Service’s zip code database.
FFM also found additional apparent errors totaling nearly $1.2 million of [...]
Update: Phantom Zip Codes in Nebraska
Nebraska Watchdog has learned that if you live in Nebraska zips codes 68129, 69631, 69660, and 32202 you’ve seen over $2.2 million dollars in stimulus funds poured into your backyard.
Unfortunately Nebraska Watchdog has also learned that three of those zips codes don’t exist and the fourth, 32202, is several states away.
In November Nebraska Watchdog told you the federal [...]
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