The Transportation Department’s inspector general is questioning why two tiny villages in Alaska are getting $28 million in stimulus airport funding, more than New York and many other big cities, as part of a broader critique of the way the department is managing its piece of the economic-stimulus plan, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
According to the story by Christopher Conkey:
Inspector General Calvin Scovel’s criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of $1.1 billion in stimulus grants to airports hits another concern, which is that many of the stimulus projects sprinkled around the country lack “economic merit.”
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