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In 2008 the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation tried to do a barn census, spent $150,000 on the project, then abandoned it.
The Tibbits Opera House received a $500,000 restoration to its original design – and the money hemorrhage hasn’t stopped yet.
Topline: Most residents of Lexington, Kentucky never wanted a sidewalk on Tates Creek Road. They said foot traffic was “non-existent.”
The Census Bureau spent $810 million to invent computers for its crews to use in the 2010 Census – and all that money was wasted.
Topline: The federal government spends money to maintain over 1,300 national hiking trails that are easily accessible to all Americans — but it also spent hundreds...
Topline: In 2005, the federal government gave a $500,000 grant to music education group B InTune and directed them to report back a year later on...
Former Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) brazenly regarded federal grants as “free money” and didn’t care how it sounded when he said so.
The National Drugs Intelligence Center (NDIC) took millions of taxpayer dollars, and everyone knew every dollar was wasted.
Topline: An instance of San Diego Unified school district spending a $3 million federal grant on employee bonuses instead of low-income students was just the start...
The National Science Foundation doubled down on a wasteful Chinese video game research project by spending nearly three times as much.
