KS police officials, charity miss fed stimulus funds deadline
The reports are in. We promise, say three Kansas entities that got about $453,000 in federal stimulus — or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — grants.
Read More →Analysis: County-level stimulus spending didn’t match employment gains
By David Collins | New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — It just doesn’t make sense – not if recent injections of federal cash for development projects were intended to make the biggest difference in the communities that were suffering the most.
Three years after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 started pouring just shy of [...]
Stimulus funding for controversial wind farm up in air
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 [...]
Six-figure jobs in federal stimulus program to fix up low-income homes in Texas
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 [...]
Obama Administration Continues 'Recovery Summer' Tour
The following was originally posted on August 5, 2010 at BankruptingAmerica.org:
Administration officials continue “Recovery Summer” tour
Continuing the Administration’s “Recovery Summer” tour today, the President visits Chicago; Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visits Columbus, OH; Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan visits Fairfax County, Virginia; and Federal Highways Deputy Administrator Greg Nadeaus visits [...]
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