This is really cool - new Federal spending, according to the recent stimulus bill, will need to be exposed through an RSS feed. This means, in theory, that as new spending is approved, we can all receive notification in our blogs… or better yet, since these updates will contain structured data...

. ALL OF THESE STATES VOTED AGAINST THE STIMULUS BILL YET THEY RECEIVE THE MOST FEDERAL SPENDING BACK ON THEIR TAXES MARK NEWMAN "Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results" And They REALLY Need The Money! Listed below are the poorest, worst educated, shortest-living, most baby-dying, tax-suc...

. ALL OF THESE STATES VOTED AGAINST THE STIMULUS BILL YET THEY RECEIVE THE MOST FEDERAL SPENDING BACK ON THEIR TAXES MARK NEWMAN "Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results" And They REALLY Need The Money! Listed below are the poorest, worst educated, shortest-living, most baby-dying, tax-suc...

Lindsay Holliday, a Macon dentist, long-time environmental activist and twice, I believe, candidate for Bibb County Commission Chairman has provided the public with a pdf of the Georgia Department of Transportations' stimulus package proposal to the federal government. You can download the approxima...

The center is among a list that includes a mermaid mural, an unwanted blimp and search for aliens in outer space....

We need a new term to describe the various economic recovery plans. Desperate Money Explosion comes to mind. The DME. I'm copyrighting that. The New York Times has several graphics to explain it all, as well as a fine story. I can't link this one directly, but you can access it in more detail from t...

If you want to waste a week some time, call the White House and try finding that what presidential travel costs. You get answers like this: In accordance with Federal regulations, political committees, and not the Federal taxpayer, pay the costs attributable to political activity when the Vice Presi...

Madame Speaker, abuses of the earmark process by members of both parties demonstrate the need for reform. However earmarks are hardly the most serious problem facing this country. In fact, many, if not most of the problems with earmarks can be fixed by taking simple steps to bring greater transparen...

A list of companies that get the most federal contracts. The internet is pretty fantastic. And not just for porn....