The Florida Today is reporting that Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Florida tomorrow to make an announcement with Lori Garver. I have it on pretty good authority that it’s to announce a twenty-million-dollar National Emergency Grant. This is over and above the forty million that Florida is supposed to get, and I think that it’s 2010 money, rather than 2011.
[Wednesday morning update]
I guess it turned out to be fifteen million, instead of twenty.
A one time payoff to move to sustainable space? Totally worth it.
What does that buy besides an innumerate news story headline? 40 jobs for a year? Al Gore’s latest house generates more jobs that that.
Send the money back to the taxpayers.
And here I thought NASA as white collar welfare was supposed to be a bad thing.
and I think that it’s 2010 money, rather than 2011.
That would be excellent news. Any updates on that?
No money for JSC in Texas, which almost never votes Democratic.