By Tom Steward | Minnesota Freedom Foundation
Minnesota Congressman Leads Effort to End Green Energy Stimulus Funding Behind Controversial Goodhue County Wind Farm
An initiative led by Congressman John Kline (MN-R) would do more than terminate the federal stimulus renewable energy program that funded the bankrupt $535 millionnotorious Solyndra solar power project. If successful, it would also [...]

By Mark Lisheron
Texas Watchdog
What was to have been a Frankenstein-like lightning strike to the economy and to unemployment, the Weatherization Assistance Program today in Texas has spent more than $226,000 on each of 1,041 jobs the program is said to have created or saved.
The director of the state Department of Housing and Community Affairs overseeing [...]

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Hundreds of colorful banners waved above a Tax Day rally held last month in Washington, D.C. by Tea Party activists protesting government spending.
Signs and buttons displayed punchy messages like “Capital Privy—Flush Congress” and “No-bama.” A yellow sign held by a middle-aged man read: “Hey Congress/Obama, my small business is not your [...]

By Jay Howell
Idaho Freedom Foundation
More than $470,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus plan) funds have found their way to Idaho arts groups.  This money came from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and went either directly to groups like the Boise Contemporary Theater, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Log Cabin [...]

By Ed O’Keefe
Washington Post
The Obama administration‘s economic recovery program has triggered more than 1,700 fraud complaints since it launched last year, according to a new report.
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and federal inspectors general are investigating 147 of those allegations and federal prosecutors have opened investigations into 43 cases, the RAT Board said in [...]