by Staff
Published: October 29, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Dakota County, Ramsey County, Washington County
You could be forgiven if you hadn’t heard that three east metro counties have banded together to publish a blog that describes where and how federal recovery funds are being used locally.
by Charley Shaw
Published: October 26, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Some government watchdogs and DFL legislators are at a loss to measure the stimulus’s actual impact apart from those catchy orange-and-white signs along the road.
by Staff
Published: October 1, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The state of Minnesota has surpassed $1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending, with another $440 million in contracts and grants awarded and to be paid once the work is completed, according to Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson.
by Staff
Published: September 28, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, hybrid vehicles, Metropolitan Council
A $1.1 million grant to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council under the federal stimulus act will allow the replacement of 35 small diesel buses, 17 of them small gas-electric hybrid vehicles.
by Staff
Published: September 21, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, Minnesota Office of Energy Security, U.S. Department of Energy
Minnesota will receive $10.6 million in federal stimulus money to support energy efficiency and conservation activities under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
by Staff
Published: September 21, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Construction, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota has received $8.9 million in federal stimulus act bond authority for construction of an education facility.
by Staff
Published: September 17, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Three Minnesota colleges have received federal money to expand the training of health care professionals.
by Staff
Published: September 10, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Minneapolis American Indian Center, Office on Violence Against Women Recovery Act Transitio
A grant of $500,000 in federal stimulus money has been awarded to the Minneapolis American Indian Center by the federal Office on Violence Against Women Recovery Act Transitional Housing Program.
by Staff
Published: September 8, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Minnesota Department of Education
The Minnesota Department of Education has allocated $75.85 million in no-interest or low-interest Qualified School Construction Bond (QSCB) authority to 12 school districts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
by Burl Gilyard
Published: September 3, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority
A series of votes last week from the St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) board will steer federal stimulus dollars to the Renaissance Box deal, and to other affordable-housing projects in St. Paul.
