This week brought news that some of the U.S. government’s stimulus package funding has been delegated to some very unique places in Massachusetts: $1.5 million to fix a lighthouse on an uninhabited island, $123,000 to terrorist-attack-proof the Spirit of Boston party cruise ship and $95,000 for the University of Massachusetts at Boston to study pollen samples from the Viking Era. With millions of people out of work nationwide (thousands here in Massachusetts, although our unemployment rate improved recently), it seems that there are dozens of better uses for the stimulus money. The first one that comes to my mind...
