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Weatherization Tension

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 - 5:35
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 13:29
In looking at the Recovery Act from a variety of angles, it’s useful to closely examine the work done in individual states.
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A Hawkeye on energy savings

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 - 5:03
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 18:46
You might think that it would be easy to track results for the  Recovery Act’s weatherization program. After all, simple, everyday energy bills provide a readily quantified measure of the benefits of home weatherization. Yet, as a recent GAO report noted, only a few states have already developed processes to measure the effectiveness of their weatherization program.
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Stimulus Watcher's Reading List

Friday, June 11th, 2010 - 6:25
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 16:00
As we scour the world for interesting bits of informational gold to bring to our readers, sometimes we discover that we’ve stockpiled three or four. Solution: With today’s installment, we’re inaugurating a periodic feature, to be called “Stimulus Watchers’ Reading List.” We strongly encourage you all to make recommendations for this list – and if you want credit, let us know and if we feature the report or article you recommend, we’ll attribute it to you. Here are some suggestions from this past week:
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Things actually could be finer . . . in Carolina

Monday, May 10th, 2010 - 15:17
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 15:11
Most states have had problems implementing the stimulus weatherization program in a timely way. But we’ve never heard of a string of bad luck and sorrow quite like North Carolina's. Here’s the story, as related in the Greensboro News & Record: * The money set aside for weatherization was only a small piece of the 2009 stimulus bill, but it was more than 10 times the amount North Carolina regularly receives from the federal program for such efforts.
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Speeding up Weatherization: Michigan’s Solution

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 - 11:22
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
The GAO has documented that almost 90 percent of homes set to be weatherized are subject to historical preservation review. Whether or not they had that startling number in front of them, officials in Michigan’s  State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) saw that they were confronting an enormous obstacle to getting weatherization money out. In Michigan alone, 34,000 homes would be affected and would need review.
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Why weatherization dollars have been delayed

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 - 7:00
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Two recent reports, one from the GAO and one from the Department of Energy's Inspector General, both address the delays states have had in using stimulus dollars to get their homes weatherized due to a va
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Conflicting goals, weatherization and a little about soccer

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - 12:29
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
One of our very favorite Governing columns that we've written over the years was about performance measurement and girls' soccer. As we watched our daughter play, we noticed we were seeing some of the same performance issues come up as we'd seen in government. One of the chief problems was that of conflicting goals. Coaches said they wanted to develop players and win games, but doing both those things simultaneously was tricky.
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"Are you spending more time to report than to deal with programmatic responsibilities?"

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 - 14:16
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
We like transparency. We like statistics. We like up-to-date data.
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Reading list

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 - 13:59
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
We wanted to catch you up on two important reports about the stimulus that came out of the Inspector General community  in recent weeks.
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Wanna see a Governor get results? Keep reading.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 - 16:24
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
We've been concerned about the disconnect that sometimes exists between stimulus oversight offices and state performance measurement efforts.  On March 15th, we wrote about this a bit, and the following day,  we looked at how Maryland has connected its state's performance effort with oversight and tracking of the stimulus.
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Why weatherization dollars have been delayed « The Recovery

[...] dollars to get their homes weatherized due to a variety of issues. You may recall that we recently posted a video  of Washington’s Governor Christine Gregoire fulminating about this [...]

04/07/2010 - 11:21
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