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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Congress / Phillips And the Award for Best Use of Google Maps by a Tennessee Politician Goes to...

Posted by Betsy Phillips on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Jim Cooper for putting together this map of all the different places around the 5th District that have gotten stimulus funds. OK, in fairness, the award should probably go to Tyler Allard, who seems to have done the grunt work. But let's not get into semantics. It's a really nice use of the medium and provides a lot of information to constituents in an easy to digest fashion.
View Economic Recovery At Work in Tennessee's 5th District in a larger map

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Finally. A politician trying to show where our money is going. We need more Jim Coopers.

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Posted by GM on 02/18/2010 at 1:44 PM

Apparently it's all going to Vanderbilt. I guess we have to trust them to manage it, but I'm sure they'd be better at it than I would.

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Posted by CeeElCee on 02/18/2010 at 2:05 PM

CeeElCee - did you look at the same map? The one I saw showed lots of "smaller" grants to Vanderbilt, which is by the way, a research institution. Research projects are almost always grant related. Did you notice where the most money went? Over $500 million to the State Department of Education. That's teachers' salaries. A good investment IMO.

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Posted by Really? on 02/18/2010 at 2:57 PM

I wonder how many $57,000 weatherizations are buried in there?

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Posted by Emmett Flatus on 02/18/2010 at 3:52 PM

Emmett, that's one of the nice things about the map. If you make it bigger, you can see a list on the left of all the places money is going and what it's going for.

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Posted by Aunt B. on 02/18/2010 at 3:55 PM

Steve Cohen was the first Congressman in Tennessee to do this last year.. FYI

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Posted by UMMMM on 02/18/2010 at 4:41 PM

UMMMM is 100% correct.
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GM, my friend. Can we just say we need more politicians that are willing to show where our money is going and not necessarily more Coopers?
He can't bury his obstructionism of progressive efforts in one specialty map.

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Posted by algarve apartments on 02/25/2010 at 2:29 PM

Good thinking and writing

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Posted by Shannon on 03/09/2010 at 11:38 AM

Love the layout of your blog. Perhaps we can be blogging buddies.

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Posted by Consumer on 03/10/2010 at 5:40 PM
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