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Crowdsourcing Accountability
The Next Right — ... creating a site that would facilitate crowdsourcing the task of prioritizing the 11,000+ projects proposed in the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ $73 billion “Main Street Economic Recovery” stimulus plan. The point of doing this is to help President-Elect Obama keep his promise that any stimulus spending will be directed at critical infrastructure, and not pork. Roads and bridges and schoolhouses are infrastructure, but dog parks and tennis centers in wealthy neighborhoods probably don’t count. [...] ...

Bill Scher: CNN Levies Right-Wing Hit on Infrastructure Projects
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... to the one-line descriptions in the mayors' report. That's why we need an "infrastructure bank" to assess these requests on the merits, which ...

Economic Minutemen
The American Spectator — ... -- launched this last Monday -- those projects could be a few of the thousands that receive funding from economic stimulus bill. In November, the U.S. Conference of Mayors released a report, available online , that detailed a wish list of "shovel-ready" projects they would like to see funded within the stimulus package. Eileen Norcross, a research fellow at Mercatus Center at George Mason University, mentioned the list to senior research fellow Jerry Brito and suggested he use it for research. Brito, along with the help of two gentlemen who volunteered their skills in ...