NYCO's Blog now has an amazing map of New York showing how much state slush fund money counties received, building on data from the recent Post-Standard series.
As she points out in the article about it, it's kind of odd that Tompkins County got got $313.42 per person while to our southeast Tioga County got zero. (Even if the single huge $25 million grant to Cornell is subtracted, Tompkins still gets $54.35 per person.)
As I said yesterday, the money's nice to have and likely going to good causes, but it's pretty clear that borrowed money distributed so as to reinforce the gridlock in Albany is a really bad way to fund projects.
Posted by simonstl at October 20, 2004 07:17 PM