After a flurry of stimulus spending,questionable projects pile up

By SUSAN FERRECHIO,Washington Examiner

$30 million for a spring training facility is certainly a questionable project

The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond,Wash.,which are separated by a highway.

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County,Wis.,that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown,Pa.,serving about 20 passengers per day,to build a backup runway.

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