I turned my post last week on the City’s Stimulus Wish List into an Op-Ed for the DC Exaiminer – How one city is using Obama’s stimulus:
New Rochelle, NY offers a window into how President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package – the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – is fairing at the municipal level where your tax dollars will flow from government to the private sector.
New Rochelle is the seventh largest city in New York State. Last week, city officials submitted a nearly $100 million list of proposed projects to Albany in the hopes of getting a slice of New York State’s $24 billion share of the stimulus pie.
Out of the $97.8 million submitted, almost 20% of the projects are ineligible, few are actually shovel-ready and most contain highly improbably job creation estimates.
The story is on the front page.
The Freepers linked the story and have a few comments.