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Michael Grabell has been a reporter at ProPublica since 2008, producing stories for USA Today, Salon, NPR, MSNBC.com and the CBS Evening News. His investigative work has included stories on Obama’s economic stimulus package, the Federal Air Marshal Service, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita. Before joining ProPublica, he was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News. He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Grabell’s book about the stimulus, Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, was published in January 2012.

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We Made Recovery.gov’s New Stimulus Data Easier to Download

Oct. 16, 2009, 12:31 p.m.

Desperate Scene in Detroit as Stimulus Comes to Crossroads

Oct. 8, 2009, 11:05 a.m.

Stimulus Transportation Spending Lags Predictions

Oct. 2, 2009, 10:49 a.m.

How Green Was My Stimulus?

Sept. 25, 2009, 10:35 a.m.

Stimulus Gets Mixed Reviews in Newest GAO Report

Sept. 24, 2009, 8:07 a.m.

States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund

Sept. 7, 2009, 10:13 p.m.

Inspector General Blasts Stimulus for Tiny Airports

Aug. 11, 2009, 10:08 a.m.

Stimulus Spending Fails to Follow Unemployment, Poverty

Aug. 5, 2009, 2:38 p.m.

Big Stimulus is Watching You

July 30, 2009, 11:05 a.m.

Chart: Approved Highway Stimulus Projects

July 23, 2009, 3:05 p.m.

What highways stimulus projects have been approved?

Browse All Approved Stimulus Highway Projects

July 23, 2009, 2:53 p.m.

No-Bid Stimulus Contracts for Military

July 17, 2009, 11:25 a.m.

Obama Admin Steps Up Defense of Stimulus

July 16, 2009, 11:05 a.m.

Stim Cities

July 15, 2009, 3:09 p.m.

How effective has the stimulus been in eight cities?

Tracking the Stimulus, Where It Counts

July 15, 2009, 10:44 a.m.

Slow as a Turtle Caught in a Crab Pot?

July 15, 2009, 10:27 a.m.

Primed for a Stimulus Ride, St. Cloud Wonders When the Bus Will Arrive

July 15, 2009, 10:10 a.m.

Primed for a Stimulus Ride, St. Cloud Wonders When the Bus Will Arrive

July 15, 2009, 10:10 a.m.

St. Cloud: Where’s the Stimulus Boomtown?

July 15, 2009, 10 a.m.

Tools and Resources

July 14, 2009, 1:48 p.m.

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