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Daily Report: Money and Politics

SFO to return $2.1 million in misspent stimulus funds

November 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Federal Aviation Administration will take back $2.1 million in stimulus funds that it gave to San Francisco International Airport because the money was used improperly, according to the Department of Transportation’s inspector general. The airport received $14.5 million in stimulus... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

BART vendor pushed to boost job numbers to meet stimulus promises

August 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.” But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

GOP senators call Wine Train project 'tax dollar sinkhole'

May 9, 2012, 12:05 AM
No-bid contracts cost taxpayers big money, and that’s one reason the $79 million Napa Valley Wine Train flood-control project has become a “tax dollar sinkhole,” two U.S. senators say. In a statement issued yesterday in response to a California Watch report, Sens. John McCain... + read more
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