President Obama has made it a priority to establish transparency in how stimulus money is being spent.  I am looking for web sites that give us visibility as to how the money is being spent in Texas.

I recently reported the projects listed for Texas/Austin (see my blog, Texas Pork)

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/

I revisited this site and found that voting is ongoing as to what we think of the listed projects.  The following caught my eye for projects listed in and around Austin:

• The vote ratio is biased towards negative which means to me that there is little enthusiasm for the projects listed.  I hope authorities will relook at some of these projects as they certainly look like pork.

• Cap Metro receives a major portion of funds, over $360M, for mostly rail projects.  The vote ratio is barely positive.  I would think Austinites would really get behind and support these type projects.

• The Raul Alvarez Disc Golf Course gets the razzie award with the most negative vote count, -2322; followed by Boardwalk along Lady Bird Lake, -764.  These projects need a serious review as to criticality and appear to be pork.

Another site I found is

http://www.txdot.gov/news/009-2009.htm

which shows their plans for state spending on roads.

If anyone knows of other sites that give us insight into the spending, please post it.