WE WIN AGAIN ... Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan national watchdog organization, has awarded our apparently eternal Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority (KABATA) its Golden Fleece award.
Our last winner was the Bridge To Nowhere in Ketchikan.
For earwigs who just returned from Saturn, KABATA is a government-funded agency dedicated to building a multibillion-dollar bridge from Anchorage to the part of the Mat-Su where nobody lives, a bridge the feds have rejected multiple times, a bridge legislative auditors concluded was noticeably divorced from reality.
Most important, it's the nonexistent bridge that's been officially named "Don Young's Way." For that reason alone, Ear loves it.
You can find a list of reasons for the award at www.taxpayer.net
Original Publication URL: http://www.adn.com/2013/06/29/2958324/alaska-ear-we-win-again-6302013.html
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