Did Jim Cramer (of CNBC and thestreet.com fame) improperly manipulate the stock market back in his hedge fund management days? After watching this video of him being interviewed in 2006, it would certainly seem so.
If you don’t have time to watch the video, peruse this article.
In a recent (02/25/09) Columbus Dispatch article about statewide requests for federal stimulus money, it was reported that:
The Ohio Department of Transportation has the most projects — 607 — followed by the western Ohio city of Piqua, with 71.
We investigated this further and found out that the state is compiling all requests from all entities into one big messy Microsoft Excel formatted spreadsheet. [ The state's link to the most current release of their spreadsheet is constantly being changed so it would be futile for us to link directly to it. But if you want a copy of it, you'll find how to download it at the bottom of the page residing at: http://recovery.ohio.gov/more ]
If you only want to see the details of the 71 requests that comprise the $84,592,840 that Bill Lutz had requested as of 02/25/09, we’ve extracted only those 71 records from the state’s data and sorted them (amount of the request, descending order). And don’t blame us for the typos, misspellings, etc. – we are simply quoting the text verbatim as it appears in the state’s official spreadsheet.
Ohio Consumers' Counsel Press Releases and Updates City of Ashland, Oregon 
