more on the stimulus

A quick hit on the stimulus bill. Here the U.S. Conference on Mayors provides a city by city list of "ready to go" projects they will request when the stimulus bill passed. Certainly worth checking what your city might want. I did think it odd that Minneapolis has but one project for $1.7 million, while Edina (an affluent Minneapolis suburb with 1/8th the population) has six projects at a total cost of $17.3 million.

Especially given the cut in state aid in the Senate bill (with state aid helping Minneapolis residents [who are poorer] more than suburbanites), I can only hope these lists are preliminary and not reflective of the actual distribution of dollars (or jobs).