John Tedesco

My boss David Sheppard, projects editor at the Express-News, asked me to take a look at local stimulus projects in San Antonio to see where the money is going; to make sure that taxpayer dollars are spent appropriately; and to measure the economic impact locally.

Feel free to contact me if you know of any success stories or problems with projects in Bexar County that are funded by Recovery Act money.

If the stimulus program is an issue that interests you, here are links to resources on the Web that I’ve come across. I bookmarked these sites through Diigo and you can click here for more recent pages as I find them.

• Recipient Reported Data Map

• Download Center

• Timeline/Milestones

  "October 01, 2009 Recipient Reporting Begins."

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: A Texas Eye on the Dollars

• Video Tutorials

• Advanced Search – Agency Data

• Bexar County, Texas | ProPublica Recovery Tracker

• State/Territory Summary – Texas

• Shoddy workmanship found in $22 million federal stimulus contract to improve the homes of the poor | Texas Watchdog

• http://www.auditforum.org/18biennial.htm

• Tracking Recovery Act Spending | Following the Money | GAO.gov

• City of San Antonio | Official Web Site – Office of Management & Budget

• Helpful stimulus-related web sites – bizjournals:

• Regional Stimulus Watch – San Antonio Business Journal

• Media Kit

• Stimulus for Cotton Candy, Tango and a Fish Orchestra? Wacky, or Actually Worthy? – ProPublica

• The Act in Action: New Report Shows Recovery Act Creating Jobs Throughout the Nation | The White House

• ProPublica’s Unofficial Guide to Recovery.gov – ProPublica

• Recovery.gov

• Download Center

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Tags: Journalism, Recovery Act, Stimulus

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