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A Senator, a Mayor, and a Cabinet Secretary Walk Into a Court House
ST. LOUIS—The place: 12:45 p.m., Friday, in an old courthouse overlooking the Gateway Arch. The courthouse was once used to hear the Dred Scott case but has now been turned into a St. Louis history museum. Red, white, and blue banners are draped across the banisters, accentuating the giant American flag that hangs below the 90-foot-high cupola.

Todd, Hen House District Manager
ARCOLA, Ill.— As we go across the country, we’ll be asking people we meet the same question: What stories will you tell your grandkids about the recession? A new response is below:

Meet Michigan's Stimulus Czar
LANSING, Mich.—The stimulus doesn't come with an instruction manual. When both receiving and applying for money from the federal government, all 50 states are left wondering: How should we keep track of where all the money is going? What are the criteria to apply for more money? How should we calculate the number of jobs we've created or saved? How should we decide whether this thing is working?
These are the central questions of the stimulus, yet the feds only send advice, not answers. And if the feds don't know the answers to these questions, then who does...
Flushing Stimulus Money Into the Sewer
LANSING, Mich.—As we rode into town, our dulcet-challenged GPS lady got testy when we were forced to turn off route. In front of us stood very loud, very bold “Road Closed” signs and a fresh hole in the ground. We had run into Lansing’s sewer modernization project, and it was pretty impossible not to. Right in the middle of town, the earthmovers were slowly moving up Allegan St., choking a central artery.
A Stimulus Project That’s Not Creating Any Jobs
LANSING, Mich.—It should be said up top: I have found a stimulus project that has not created a single job. Nor has it saved any. Twenty-thousand dollars have gone to the Lansing chapter of Volunteers of America to restock their food kitchen, and according to the Obama administration’s rubric, it should be a failure of a stimulus project. The $20,000 comes from FEMA via the United Way, and it has gone toward buying more goods for the food pantry here, where they've served 85,439 meals this year, a 9 percent increase from last year. Next year, they’re aiming to serve 100,000 meals.
Paid Internships, Courtesy of the Stimulus
LANSING, Mich.—The teenagers tore at the ceiling of this
Recent Recessionary Road Posts
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Chadwick MatlinAugust 6, 2009
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Chadwick MatlinJuly 17, 2009
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Chadwick MatlinJuly 13, 2009
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Chadwick MatlinJuly 13, 2009
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Chadwick MatlinJuly 10, 2009
