Stimulus Report Media Coverage
Alphabetically by state & nationally
As of 11 February 2011
Arkansas
- Arkansas News
Title: “Did Arkansas squander stimulus money?,” by Max Brantley
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Date: February 4, 2011
- Arkansas Times
Title: “Did Arkansas squander stimulus money?,” by Max Brantley
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks
Title: “How does AR Rank in Transportation Spending?”
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Date: February 5, 2011
California
- CALSTART
Title: “News: Green Street”
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Date: February 9, 2011
- Los Angeles Transportation Headlines
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Date: February 4, 2011
Colorado
- The Denver Post
Title: “Guest Commentary: How to out-innovate and out-build in Colorado,” by Chuck Perry
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
Connecticut
- Connecticut League of Conservation Voters
Title: “Research Confirms President Obama’s SOTU Remarks: Smart Transportation Spending Creates Jobs, Grows the Economy”
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Date: February 4, 2011
- CT Environmental Headlines
Title: “Research Confirms: Smart Transportation Spending Creates Jobs, Grows the Economy”
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Date: February 5, 2011
- New Haven Register
Title: “Conn. Earns A+ for how it spent transportation stimulus money,” by Ed Stannard
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Date: February 4, 2011
District of Columbia
- DC Streetsblog
Title: “SGA: Transportation Funding Pays Big Dividends Only If Invested Wisely”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
- The Hill
Title: “Report: More jobs when stimulus funds spent to repair roads,” by Vicki Needham
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Date: February 5, 2011
- The Hill – Congress Blog
Title: “How we can use existing transportation dollars for job growth,” by Christine Todd Whitman and Parris Glendening
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
Idaho
- Kootenai MPO Blog
Title: “Report Says ARRA $ Went Furthest in States Investing in Public Transportation,” by Staci Lehman
Link:
Date: February 9, 2011
Illinois
- Environmental News Bits
Title: “Recent Lessons from the Stimulus: Transportation Funding and Job Creation,” posted by Laura L. Barnes
Link:
Date: February 11, 2011
Iowa
- Bleeding Heartland
Title: “How well did Iowa use transportation stimulus money?”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
- Lefty Blogs: Taking Back America in All Fifty States
Title: Iowa – Local only posts
Link:
Date: February 8, 2011
- MPO on the Go blog
Title: “Building Transit or Building Roads: Which Creates More Jobs?”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
Florida
- RuaRealty.com
Title: “U.S. transit projects yield more construction jobs than new roads, report says”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
Louisiana
- Humid Beings blog
Title: “Sustainability group ranks Louisiana near bottom for stimulus spending”
Link:
Date: February 11, 2011
- New Orleans City Business
Title: “Sustainability group ranks Louisiana near bottom for stimulus spending,” by Christian Moises
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Date: February 11, 2011
Maryland
- The Baltimore Sun – Getting There Blog
Title: “Maryland ranked high on spending stimulus money,” by Michael Dresser
Link:
Date:February 3, 2011
- Gazette.net – Maryland Community News Online
Title: “Local leaders scraping for transportation money,” by Sarah Breitenbach
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Date: February 4, 2011
Michigan
- Big Rapids Daily News
Title: “Organizations says Michigan made poor use of stimulus money”
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Date: February 9, 2011
- The Detroit News
Title: “Group: Michigan’s use of stimulus funds average at best,” by Tom Greenwood
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Date: February 7, 2011
- Enviromich blog
Title: “Study: Michigan creates more jobs, faster, with public transportation and work on existing roads”
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Date: February 8, 2011
- Let’s Save Michigan
Title: “More Jobs When Stimulus Funds Spent to Repair Roads”
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Date: February 10, 2011
- WATZ Today’s Country Radio Station – 99.3, 96.7 FM and 1450 AM
Title: Wednesday Morning State News Summary
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Date: February 9, 2011
Minnesota
- MNpublius
Title: “WI Governor is the caboose”
Link:
Date: February 8, 2011
Missouri
- Missouri Public Transit Association
Title: “Report: More jobs when stimulus funds spent to repair roads”
Link:
Date: February 5, 2011
New York
- The Real Deal Online
Title: “U.S. transit projects yield more construction jobs than new roads, report says”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
Pennsylvania
- Crossroads blog
Title: “Renewing America’s Existing Infrastructure: Efficient Job Creation,” by Theo Merkel
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
Rhode Island
- GoLocalProv.com
Title: “RI Ranked Number One in National Transit Report,” by Leah Michaels
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Date: February 3, 2011
- Providence Business News
Title: “SGA gives Rhode Island top marks for repairing, not building roads”
Link:
Date: February 3, 2011
Texas
- Houston Tomorrow
Title: “Texas near bottom in ‘effective’ job stimulus spending,” by Marci Gilbert
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Date: February 6, 2011
Virginia
- Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems
Title: “New report shows the job-creating potential of smart transportation investments”
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
Washington
- PublicOla: Seattle’s News Elixir
Title: “Smart Growth America: Invest in Maintenance and Transit, Not New Roads,” by Erica C. Barnett
Link:
Date: February 8, 2011
National
- AFSCME Daily Newswire
Title: Daily Newswire – National/Political
Link:
Date: February 8, 2011
- Building America’s Future Educational Fund
Title: News Roundup: February 4, 2011
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Date: February 4, 2011
- The City Fix
Title: “TheCityFix Picks, February 4: Peak Travel, Helmet Cameras, Bicycling Studies 101,” by Jonna McKone
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Date: February 4, 2011
- The Daily Beast
Title: “Which States Squandered Their Stimulus Money?,” by David A. Graham
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Date: February 4, 2011
- FavStocks.com
Title: “New report shows the job-creating potential of smart transportation investments,” by Sean Barry
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- The Fiscal Times
Title: “Bartlett’s Notations: Economic Roundup,” by Bruce Bartlett
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Date: February 7, 2011
- GOOD Magazine
Title: “Stimulus Watch: States that Spent on Public Transportation Created More Jobs,” by Cord Jefferson, Culture Editor
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Date: February 6, 2011
- Governing: Connecting America’s Leaders
Title: “Report: Stimulus Spending on Public Transportation Creating More Jobs”
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Date: February 7, 2011
- The Green Education
Title: “Stimulus Watch: States that Spent on Public Transportation Created More Jobs”
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Date: February 6, 2011
- Grist
Title: “Sorry, Eminem: Mass transit creates jobs, not Detroit,” by Jess Zimmerman
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Date: February 8, 2011
- Huffington Post
Title: “On the Road to Recovery, Smart Transportation Policies Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs,” by Geoffrey Anderson
Link:
Date: February 9, 2011
- The Infrastructurist
Title: “New Report: Building Transit Creates More Jobs Than Building Roads,” by Eric Jaffe
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Date: February 7, 2011
- Investing in Community Change blog
Title: “Maximizing Job Creation through Infrastructure Investments,” by Dorothy Smith
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
- MainStreet.com
Title: “Report: Some States Erred in Stimulus Spending,” by Seth Fiegmerman
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Date: February 8, 2011
- Mass Transit Magazine
Title: “Research Confirms President Obama’s SOTU Remarks: Smart Transportation Spending Creates Jobs, Grows the Economy”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
- METRO Magazine
Title: “Report: Link between ARRA transportation funding and job creation”
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Date: February 4, 2011
- New Urban Network
Title: “Many states spent transportation funds poorly,” by Philip Langdon
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Date: February 4, 2011
- PDI Rail Solutions
Title: “Research Confirms President Obama’s SOTU Remarks: Smart Transportation Spending Creates Jobs, Grows the Economy”
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- Planetizen
Title: “Transit Projects Create More Bang for the Buck”
Link:
Date: February 7, 2011
- RFF Library Blog
Title: “Recent Lessons from the Stimulus: Transportation Funding and Job Creation”
Link:
Date: February 10, 2011
- Sage Construction and Real Estate
Title: “Repairing infrastructure creates more jobs than new construction, according to report”
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Date: February 8, 2011
- The Source: Transportation News & Views
Title: “Transportation headlines, Wednesday, Feb. 9,” posted by Carter Rubin
Link:
Date: February 9, 2011
- Traffic Management Centers (TMC’s) and ITS blog
Title: “New report shows the job-creating potential of smart transportation investments,” posted by Jon Sorensen
Link:
Date: February 9, 2011
- Transportation for America blog
Title: “New report shows the job-creating potential of smart transportation investments,”by Sean Barry
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- Transportation Nation
Title: “Report: Stimulus Transit Projects Create Nearly Double The Work of Road Projects,” by Andrea Bernstein
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- TheTrucker.com
Title: “States not spending ARRA funds to create most jobs in transport, report says”
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011
- The Wall Street Journal
Title: “Geoffrey Anderson: On the Road to Recovery, Smart Transportation Policies Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs”
Link:
Date: February 9, 2011
- Yahoo! News
Link:
Date: February 4, 2011