Mid-February we reported on the 35+ “shovel-ready” Knoxville projects that are seek­ing a piece of the stim­u­lus pie. Now that money is begin­ning to flow from Uncle Sam it has to go somewhere.

How would you like the civic lead­ers of Knoxville to spend fed­eral stim­u­lus money?

This week there’s an excel­lent addi­tion to our ques­tion: Stim­u­late Local. Our friends over at Chat­tarati have devel­oped an online tool to help “aver­age cit­i­zens peti­tion their civic lead­ers to spend fed­eral stim­u­lus dol­lars with local ven­dors and to trans­par­ently share infor­ma­tion about how those funds are spent.” Start a peti­tion why dontcha?