Our friends at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University have established the Financial Markets Working Group to critique the stimulus package and related “solutions” to the economic crisis.  

StimulusWatch.org also allows you to view “shovel ready” projects in the states.

Below are the “shovel-ready” projects for which the mayors of this
state have requested federal stimulus funding. You can click on a
project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the
project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not. For a
more local view, you can drill down to projects in a particular city.
Just choose a city from the following list.

The total of cost of all the projects submitted by North Carolina is $1,976,159,270

Here is the link to the North Carolina projects.