You see this in the Corridor ID program too. The point is to enter NEPA with 2-3 well-defined alternatives instead of drowning the process by coming up with 30... but you still need a NEPA (or exemption) to get an FSP grant regardless of if you did CID or not.

No bitter to be found in this sweet symphony of life

Will always be mystified how this is a never-ending issue in DC, yet I can't remember the last time someone complained about this in New York

yea, they call it 'two-screen' viewing or something like that and it just sucks the life out of the scripts

the flack vest is a nice touch

Or, tangentially related: The city DOE review of the yeshivas, which receive millions in grants for security, etc, and politics meant that schools failing to meet their obligations stayed open for a decade-plus longer than they should have www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/n...

Yes

Or here: "The CEO of one of the city’s largest nonprofit shelters stashed kin on the payroll and funneled millions of dollars into companies he has financial stakes in — alleged glaring conflicts of interest that the city claims it’s now cracking down on." -- nypost.com/2021/10/03/n...

My favorite was when they stole welfare money to help fund a conservative talk radio station, where welfare would be regularly lambasted, but anyway -- mississippitoday.org/2022/12/16/s...

For example, here's then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant running his state's welfare program like he's Al Pacino robbing a Brinks truck in the movie HEAT -- www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...