Pork Report, December 11, 2009: Puppet Show Edition

Nearly one in five federal employees paid $100,000 a year or more, and that doesn’t count overtime pay or bonuses

Congress to increase the federal debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion before year’s end

Minneapolis puppet show receives federal stimulus dollars

Columbus City Schools have more than 120 buildings, but the district is renting banquet halls, high-end hotels and conference centers with $145,000 in federal grant dollars intended help low-income students

Washington, DC receiving nearly 10 times as much federal stimulus funds per capita as the rest of the nation

No one has applied for grants from federal program to provide funds to support alternative transportation since it was created in 2003; Communities prefer taking federal subsidies to prop up more expensive small airports

Florida Job Corps center overbilled the federal government for training and also cited for “multiple safety- and health-related deficiencies”