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 [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson got over $57 million in discretionary funds under the 2009 federal stimulus bill.  What’s he doing with the money? Here’s the latest tally, numbers provided by the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment.
First, those projects for which a formal notice of fund allocation has been issued, meaning the money is encumbered [...]

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Ridership on Track So Far, But Taxpayer Subsidies are Staggering
While the Northstar Commuter Rail line is meeting its start-up ridership goals so far, it may be an uphill climb to double monthly ridership by September as projected, even with passengers paying just a fraction of the heavily subsidized train’s true cost, according [...]