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To: LindyBill who wrote (142565)	10/12/2005 7:41:24 PM
From: Snowshoe	of 793919

>>Rep. Don Young, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, is the reigning King of Pork in the House. It is inconceivable that Young would meekly slim down the pork-filled highway bill (especially earmarks for his state of Alaska) at the speaker's behest.<< I've been to Ketchikan via the airport on Gravina Island. The ferry service into town was perfectly adequate, so I'm kind of baffled as to how this infamous bridge ever became a spending priority. The ferries are one of the unique and colorful things about Southeast Alaska that make it special. Don's other big bridge in Anchorage seems more reasonable, but I would rather they just start a ferry across the inlet. BTW, earlier this year a team of wildlife consultants spent several months doing fieldwork for the site suitability analysis for the bridge. One day a young biologist in my neighborhood was counting beluga whales, and left her station briefly to get something out of her car. When she came back she found that a bear had popped out of the woods and was eating her hummus sandwich! -Snowshoe (your embedded "bridge to nowhere" reporter)

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