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Disappearmarks: How highway projects get left behind
By Sarah Dorsey Jul 30, 2010 10:23 a.m.Pennsylvania's Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge.
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Disappearmarks: Billions set aside for earmarks remain unspent
By Sarah Dorsey Jul 19, 2010 4:20 p.m.Last week Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Colo., introduced a bill that would redirect some $700 million in funds that have been languishing in Transportation Department accounts, designated to fund projects earmarked by members of Congress more than a decade ago and long since forgotten.
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Reporter's Notebook: How we got the latest FTA disappearmark data
By Lisa Chiu Jun 22, 2010 8:59 a.m.When we first reported about how we attempted to track down disappearmarks from the Federal Transit Administration, we recounted the difficulties in getting data in an electronic format. In response to our first Freedom of Information request, we were given a 121-page printout of a database, which in the end didn’t accurately include the information we sought: which SAFETEA-LU earmarks went unspent.
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Disappearmarks: Millions in SAFETEA-LU transit earmarks are unspent
By Lisa Chiu Jun 22, 2010 8:58 a.m.A sketch of what Rochester's Renaissance Square bus terminal would have looked like.
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Disappearmarks: Buffalo’s Switcheroo saves earmark
By Lisa Chiu Jun 1, 2010 2:27 p.m.Congressman Brian Higgins (right) breaks ground with Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown on historic streets in the Buffalo Inner Harbor in September 2009. (Photo: http://www.buffalowaterfront.com)
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Case study in trying to analyze earmark data
By Lisa Chiu May 4, 2010 12:25 p.m.Each year, Congress allocates billions in earmarks that come in the form of annual appropriation committee requests or are attached to various bills that become law. The Sunlight Foundation thought it would be interesting to examine which earmarks, after all the Congressional debate and bluster has dispensed, actually get spent.
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From earmark to disappearmark: Bush administration policy shift cut funding for congressional projects
By Lisa Chiu May 4, 2010 12:24 p.m.Rep. David Price, D-N.C.
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