...City voters have defeated a handful of sales tax proposals in recent decades, including one in 2003. Businessman Dan Thompson said if such a proposal makes the October ballot, there will be an active campaign to defeat it.

...the construction project have uncovered evidence of a much older society. "It's a very historic corridor," said Dan Thompson, a state archaeologist with the Office of History and Archaeology in Anchorage. The sites are believed to have belonged...