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Critics: $2.3M Detroit library project a symbol of waste amid budget crisis
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit Detroit Public Library officials say finances have grown so bad they could close most neighborhood branches, but in a few weeks plan to unveil a revamped wing of a main library that even administrators say spares few expenses.
The South Wing is stocked with 20 yellow and orange European lounge chairs that cost $1,092 apiece, artistic pendant light fixtures and two alcohol-burning fireplaces. The project morphed from a $300,000 furniture update to a $2.3 million overhaul with new floors, study rooms, lighting and built-in, wood-framed book shelves.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110422/METRO/104220381/Critics--$2.3M-Detroit-library-project-a-symbol-of-waste-amid-budget-crisis#ixzz1KHHfoVU3
Kind of makes one think of the ways the current administration used the 'stimulus' funds:
1. The federal building in Cleveland is getting an aluminum and glass wrap, at a cost of $121 million. The fix is projected to save $700,000 in heating and cooling costs. Thus, it should pay for itself in the 22nd century. Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin, Stimulus Dollars Turn Federal Buildings Green, 1-31-11.
2. Northwestern University received $713,000 to create machine-generated humor, jokes. For real. ARRA Awards Granted to Northwestern University || Office for Research | Northwestern University.
3. A tunnel for turtles to cross Highway 27 near Tallahassee, Florida, for $3.4 million. Whitney Ray, A Tunnel for Turtles to Cross the Highway, WJHT
4. Wayne State University in Michigan gets $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job | CNSnews.com
5. Montana's state-run liquor warehouse, to receive $2.2 million in stimulus cash to install skylights. The project is part of the $27.7 million the state has been awarded for energy programs. GOP Senator Slams 100 Stimulus Projects - CBS News
6. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation spent nearly $90,000 to make sidewalks ADA compliant in the small Muskogee County town of Boynton .some of the sidewalks lead to nowhere, Coburn also pointed out that the Boynton-Moton Public School is strapped for cash. The district is having trouble paying the $9,300 gas and electric bills. New Boynton Sidewalk Makes List of Top Wasteful Stimulus Projects - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
7. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $219,000 stimulus grant for psychology professor Michael Carey to study the "hookups" of 500 freshmen women .sexual encounters between adolescent partners who have no expectation of romantic commitment. But there is little scientific investigation of it. The research will measure the prevalence of hookups in the first year of college and explore the mental and physical health consequences of it. News - Stimulus funding for Syracuse University sex study questioned
8. The report, Summertime Blues, has one example of Obama Stimulus money being used to study the effects of how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine. Obama Stimulus Money to Study Monkey Cocaine Use | RedState
9. a project to study American voters perceptions of the Stimulus... Understanding Perceptions of the Economic Stimulus (Dallas, TX & Houston, TX) - $193,956 Obama Stimulus Money to Study Stimulus | RedState
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit Detroit Public Library officials say finances have grown so bad they could close most neighborhood branches, but in a few weeks plan to unveil a revamped wing of a main library that even administrators say spares few expenses.
The South Wing is stocked with 20 yellow and orange European lounge chairs that cost $1,092 apiece, artistic pendant light fixtures and two alcohol-burning fireplaces. The project morphed from a $300,000 furniture update to a $2.3 million overhaul with new floors, study rooms, lighting and built-in, wood-framed book shelves.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110422/METRO/104220381/Critics--$2.3M-Detroit-library-project-a-symbol-of-waste-amid-budget-crisis#ixzz1KHHfoVU3
Kind of makes one think of the ways the current administration used the 'stimulus' funds:
1. The federal building in Cleveland is getting an aluminum and glass wrap, at a cost of $121 million. The fix is projected to save $700,000 in heating and cooling costs. Thus, it should pay for itself in the 22nd century. Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin, Stimulus Dollars Turn Federal Buildings Green, 1-31-11.
2. Northwestern University received $713,000 to create machine-generated humor, jokes. For real. ARRA Awards Granted to Northwestern University || Office for Research | Northwestern University.
3. A tunnel for turtles to cross Highway 27 near Tallahassee, Florida, for $3.4 million. Whitney Ray, A Tunnel for Turtles to Cross the Highway, WJHT
4. Wayne State University in Michigan gets $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job | CNSnews.com
5. Montana's state-run liquor warehouse, to receive $2.2 million in stimulus cash to install skylights. The project is part of the $27.7 million the state has been awarded for energy programs. GOP Senator Slams 100 Stimulus Projects - CBS News
6. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation spent nearly $90,000 to make sidewalks ADA compliant in the small Muskogee County town of Boynton .some of the sidewalks lead to nowhere, Coburn also pointed out that the Boynton-Moton Public School is strapped for cash. The district is having trouble paying the $9,300 gas and electric bills. New Boynton Sidewalk Makes List of Top Wasteful Stimulus Projects - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
7. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $219,000 stimulus grant for psychology professor Michael Carey to study the "hookups" of 500 freshmen women .sexual encounters between adolescent partners who have no expectation of romantic commitment. But there is little scientific investigation of it. The research will measure the prevalence of hookups in the first year of college and explore the mental and physical health consequences of it. News - Stimulus funding for Syracuse University sex study questioned
8. The report, Summertime Blues, has one example of Obama Stimulus money being used to study the effects of how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine. Obama Stimulus Money to Study Monkey Cocaine Use | RedState
9. a project to study American voters perceptions of the Stimulus... Understanding Perceptions of the Economic Stimulus (Dallas, TX & Houston, TX) - $193,956 Obama Stimulus Money to Study Stimulus | RedState