The Race To Be the First "Shovel Ready" Project

Monica Almeida/The New York Times We griped when the first stimulus project out of the gate was, surprise, a highway bridge, hoping that it might be a bit more inspiring. The California Conservation Corps to the rescue, with its work in the San Bernadino National Forest, where they are actually using shovels. “Our project is definitely the first one to use shovels,” said Jimmy Camp, a spokesman for the agency in the New York Times....