Unlike myriad other folks sitting around tables trying organize others into their great plans for jumpstarting the economy, the board of the Franklin Main Street Program took an empirical angle and saw it wasn’t working:

Without much warning, the Franklin Main Street Program board of directors decided last week to suspend the program.

The board voted to place the program in “inactive status” for the time being until it could regroup and reorganize. The decision comes after several years of criticism regarding the program’s priorities and effectiveness.