The Pork Report: October 13, 2009

Trendiness of baby names being studied by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation

Federal government spends millions of dollars on a floating canal museum, a Corvette museum, the National Packard Museum, and other museums of questionable merit

Costly AIDS vaccine study touted as a breakthrough may actually be a bust or boondoggle

Streetcar to nowhere: Stimulus funds may pay to construct an Atlanta streetcar but city may not even have the funds to operate it once it is built

$181 million stimulus project wasn’t shovel ready after all and local residents applaud decision to withdraw it from the state’s list of stimulus projects

Funding to assist rebuilding projects after Hurricane Katrina spent on sod for a stadium

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