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The Stimulus Spin: Which Projects Did Your Government Pay For?

By Corey Pein

Santa Fe Reporter | April 8, 2010

The run-down innards of the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment suggest a Potemkin stimulus—with a propagandistic online facade masking real economic rot.

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Tags: New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment, Recovery Act

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