ProPublica is launching a citizen-journalism venture, asking ordinary people to pick a small part of the stimulus bill and track its progress: “Diving headfirst into databases and wrangling answers out of government officials will get us only so far. Basic information about road and bridge reconstruction projects — like the identity of sub-contractors — requires feet on the ground, and a lot of them.” The project is designed to combine all of the information provided by citizens to answer the question: Is the stimulus working?