We're about to go deal with the pleasures of air travel in a snowstorm, so posting after this will be light. The Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Camp was a great experience that brought together activists from across the political spectrum to discuss a common issue. We look forward to working on and writing about these issues as the weeks roll on (we hope a flight home will leave Reagan National within that time...).
Workday Minnesota reports in Despite economy, nation still committed to education, Walz tells teachers:
Read the rest at Workday Minnesota. The Mankato Free Press writes in First to benefit: public housing:
The stimulus bill, called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, gives $4 billion to housing agencies across the country, Mankato housing programs coordinator Patti Ziegler said. Three-fourths of that is allocated using normal methods, and the rest is competitive.
Ziegler said Mankato’s share of the housing stimulus will be spent on improvements to 80 of the city’s public housing units. That means new roofs as well as repairs and renovation to the units.
The 101-unit Orness Plaza may not get its long-planned repairs from the new cash because the $10 million project is using another source of money.
“We’re thrilled at the opportunity to provide safe, decent and affordable housing for working families in Mankato,” she said. . . .
. . .But it will be at least
April 10 before the money is spent, Ziegler said, because local
governments have to send their budgets to the federal government for
approval.
Much of the stimulus money will go toward remodeling existing housing units.
Read the rest at the Free Press. The article notes that most work in the housing market by local contractors now involves remodeling. Only two new housing starts were reported in Mankato and North Mankato in January.
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