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Alaska Ear: We win again

June 30, 2013 | Alaska Daily News | Transportation & Infrastructure

WE WIN AGAIN ... Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan national watchdog organization, has awarded our apparently eternal Knik Arm... Read More

KABATA announces Government Hill tunnel survey, catches national flak

June 28, 2013 | Alaska Dispatch | Budget & Tax , Transportation & Infrastructure

A critical legislative audit and an attempt at transferring project management has failed to slow down the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll... Read More

Knik Arm Bridge Under Fire From Taxpayer Advocacy Group

Many efforts have been made to find an alternative means of moving people and vehicles from the Mat-Su Valley to Anchorage and points... Read More

Fantasy Budgeting Won’t Make Us Safer

June 19, 2013 | Otherwords | Budget & Tax , National Security

The watchword in Washington has been “cut” for some time. But the House of Representatives headed in the opposite direction when it adopted... Read More

Watchdog: Man caves hidden in government warehouse

June 06, 2013 | CNN | Budget & Tax , Natural Resources

Contractors at an Environmental Protection Agency warehouse were careless with inventories, and used government furniture and appliances to... Read More

Lets Wise Up About Defense Spending

June 05, 2013 | US News | Budget & Tax , National Security

The House Armed Services Committee is voting on the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act this week and will turn it over to... Read More

Growing Economy Absorbing Sequestration Cuts

June 04, 2013 | Fox Business | Budget & Tax

Sequestration, the mandated across-the-board budget cuts activated in March, has not triggered the financial apocalypse predicted by... Read More

Congress Poised To Make Crop Insurance Subsidies More Generous

May 30, 2013 | NPR | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

For decades, farmers have been getting checks from the federal government as part of a safety net to help protect against, for instance, the... Read More

Making a mess of a road project

May 28, 2013 | The Virginian-Pilot | Budget & Tax , Transportation & Infrastructure

State taxpayers, including those in Hampton Roads, are on the hook for as much as $300 million for a highway in Charlottesville that does... Read More

Barnum’s beaming: The Greatest bypass on Earth!

May 23, 2013 | The Hook | Transportation & Infrastructure

Have you ever walked into a store soon after opening hours to find the advertised sale item "all sold out?” Come to the Holiday Inn... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More