Two stories in recent days make you wonder just who's getting the benefit of stimulus money arriving from the Feds. There's an AP story in this morning's Montgomery Advertiser that reports only one of the road projects approved by the State Department of Transportation is in a county with a high unemployment rate. Alabama's unemployment rate is above the national rate. The county with the most unemployment is Wilcox County's 21.5% jobless rate. The story quotes a spokesman for the Transportation Department as saying they selected projects based on how much the repair work was needed. He cited the repaving of I-59 in Etowah County as an example. But on Sunday, USA Today published a story about that very stretch of Interstate, reporting the work would go to a Tennessee Company because the specs require it to be a concrete job as opposed to an asphalt repaving. Some stimulus so far!
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May 12, 2009
Paving as a Stimulus
Two stories in recent days make you wonder just who's getting the benefit of stimulus money arriving from the Feds. There's an AP story in this morning's Montgomery Advertiser that reports only one of the road projects approved by the State Department of Transportation is in a county with a high unemployment rate. Alabama's unemployment rate is above the national rate. The county with the most unemployment is Wilcox County's 21.5% jobless rate. The story quotes a spokesman for the Transportation Department as saying they selected projects based on how much the repair work was needed. He cited the repaving of I-59 in Etowah County as an example. But on Sunday, USA Today published a story about that very stretch of Interstate, reporting the work would go to a Tennessee Company because the specs require it to be a concrete job as opposed to an asphalt repaving. Some stimulus so far!
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There is not one company in Alabama that can do concrete re-paving?
ReplyDeleteC'mon.