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D.C. group blasts KABATA as geotech work for bridge begins

June 30, 2013 | Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman | Transportation & Infrastructure

This week the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority announced the start of geotechnical work in Anchorage and a national watchdog group gave... Read More

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

Optimism grows for repairing Western Pennsylvania locks and dams

June 30, 2013 | Pitttsburgh Post-Gazette | Transportation & Infrastructure

River industry officials are confident Congress will approve legislation this year that would boost funding for much-needed repairs to... 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

Fantasy budgeting won’t make us safer;  Lawmakers should make targeted and smart Pentagon budget cuts

June 27, 2013 | Union Daily Times | 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

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

How House Tackles WRDA Could Signal Surface Transport Approach

June 26, 2013 | Journal of Commerce | Earmarks & Appropriations , Natural Resources

The approach the U.S. House of Representatives takes in tackling the long-delayed Water Resources Development Act over the coming months... Read More

Anti-spending groups hostile to farm bill stances of Tennessee Republicans

June 25, 2013 | Gannett | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

Tennessee's congressional Republicans usually find themselves on the same page as think tanks and advocacy organizations that call for... Read More

Fight Over Genetically Modified Salmon Looms in Agriculture Spending Bill

June 25, 2013 | Congressional Quarterly News | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

The Alaska delegation could advance its fight against the commercial production of genetically modified salmon if the fiscal 2014 Senate... Read More

Opposition to House Farm Bill Spans Political Spectrum

June 18, 2013 | The New York Times | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

As the House prepares to vote this week on a new five-year farm bill, advocacy groups from across the political spectrum are lining up to... 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