Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Government at Work - Distributing the money
$15 million goes to where?...
Associated Press Writers Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo write about it:
"Tester, who said he pressed the Obama administration to get money for Montana projects, said border crossings in his state had been unfairly ignored.
'The northern border tends to be forgotten, and it shouldn't be,' Tester told the Great Falls Tribune after announcing $77 million for Montana posts in the stimulus.
Whitetail, Mont., an unincorporated town with a population of 71, saw only about $63,000 in freight cross its border last year. County unemployment is an enviable 4 percent. "