Tag: stimulus
Schwarzenegger calls out GOP stimulus hypocrisy
Here’s a profound idea from California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who went after congressional Republicans yesterday for criticizing the Democrats’ stimulus bill one moment,...
Colo. wins stimulus money to map Internet terrain and lay the...
The Governor’s Office of Information Technology has won federal Recovery Act cash to up the speed limit on the information superhighway in the overdue...
A hidden stimulus in health reform
It’s a nonsensical element of Medicaid’s funding formula that during economic downturns, when state budgets are most squeezed, states are also asked to bear...
Two lumps of bitter with your tea: Anti-Stimulus pile-on at the...
The Denver Post published a factchecking piece on the disparity between the number of jobs reported to have been created so far in the...
Colorado lands stimulus dollars to fund arts jobs
Colorado has received $568,040 in Federal recovery funds that will ensure that 313 Colorado arts workers will remain, temporarily at least, off the rolls...
Denver receives $6 million federal energy efficiency grant
Denver won $6,079,500 from the U.S. Department of Energy to "embark on a community-wide energy saving plan," according to a press release sent out...
Benson and Blake on Colorado’s higher education funding crisis
This week, Education News Colorado posted an interview with University of Colorado President Bruce Benson and Colorado State University Chancellor Joe Blake. Sitting in...
Boulder gym receives one of 12 first-round new energy stimulus grants
A new climbing gym in Boulder that receives 80 percent of its energy from renewable sources on Tuesday received one of 12 grants awarded in the first round of a stimulus program that provides cash instead of earned tax credits to renewable energy projects.
Talking with Earl Devaney, Stimulus watchdog
Earl Devaney is chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the independent agency created by Congress to monitor stimulus spending. It's no easy job, but if anyone can do it, Devaney is a very good bet. He is the man who was Department of the Interior Inspector General when the infamous Sex, Drugs and Oil Leases scandal broke at the Minerals Management Service in Lakewood, Colorado, last year.
News Nuggets, 18 August 2009: Breaking ground, rules, noses
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STIMULUS COLORADO: Volunteer ProPublica reporter Erica Grossman looked into a $31 million Colorado repaving and bike trail project as part of...