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StimulusWatch.org – share your opinion on candidates for federal grant programs

Recovery.gov is obviously a great place for information on the stimulus and where taxpayer money is going. Recovery.gov aims for transparency.

Another site for those interested in knowing what projects the stimulus money might go towards is StimulusWatch.org. It’s an interesting site to poke around through and allows everyday folk to share their opinions about possible grant programs stimulus money might support.

From their website, StimulusWatch.org “was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. [They] do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed “shovel-ready” projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes” [emphasis added].

Unfortunately, many of the comments and discussion about projects geared toward libraries are not the most promising and somewhat disappointing…

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