Results tagged “stimulus”

Have you ever wondered where the $787 billion stimulus plan bucks have been spent? Well, $45.5 million of it will boost affordable housing developments in Beverly, Framingham, Greenfield, Holliston, Springfield, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain that were stalled by a lack of equity to support these kinds of projects. The Jamaica Plain Community Development Corporation will get a total of $11.3 million from the stimulus to rejuvenate two developments after a year-long delay. A total of $6.1 million is being invested into converting the former Blessed Sacrament Church on Centre Street into a single-room-occupancy building, with affordable condos, and 36 lower-cost apartments. A project at 270 Centre Street is getting $5.2 million to build affordable housing, and retail/office space.

• Plankton Power of Wellfleet is working with government, corporate and research groups to build an algae farm/biorefinery on Cape Cod to turn pond scum into fuel. [Boston Herald]

• A123Systems Inc. of Watertown is getting $249.1 million in stimulus bucks to build a plant to make batteries for electric vehicles. [Boston Business Jounal]

• Layoffs are "mounting" in the horse and bike police forces. [Globe]
• A Wal-Mart shopper found teeth in a wallet he was about to purchase. Has the tooth fairy been getting a little confused? [WCVB]
• Mass. gets a $438 million stimulus. [Herald]

Joe Perry and Steven Tyler may or may not ever become political activists. But one song they made famous as Aerosmith doesn't appear, at least for now, to be acceptable fodder for political shenanigans. Republicans enlisted the Aerosmith classic "Back in the Saddle" as part of an anti–stimulus plan video released on YouTube. The GOP apparently posted the ad before getting permission, then removed it once the copyright owner complained. The ad was stopped and the stimulus became law on Tuesday. Looks like somebody's back in the saddle again—but not the GOP.