Salt Lake County Stimulus Dollars

Federal stimulus dollars meant to help Salt Lake County are showing up in shelters for the homeless, detox centers for recovering alcoholics and treatment programs for drug addicts.They are widening streets, paying for energy retrofits and shoring up banks along the Jordan River.Utah's most populous county has snatched more than $14 million through the federal stimulus to fund law enforcement, social services and environmental initiatives that its cash-strapped coffers couldn't afford otherwise. Salt Lake Tribune