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STIMULUS! D.C. STYLE: ?Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is raiding the Neighborhood Investment Fund for earma?

By Glenn Reynolds

STIMULUS! D.C. STYLE: “Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is raiding the Neighborhood Investment Fund for earmarks for arts groups and other non-neighborhood-investment purposes. ‘Under the proposed budget, only $5.4 million of the $17 million will be set aside for neighborhood groups. About $1.6 million will be transferred to the Commission on Arts and Humanities and distributed through grants of mostly $250,000 to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington National Opera, the D.C. Jewish Community Center and other groups, all based in Northwest.’?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).