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...in Alaska all know that as a beneficiary of federal dollars, whether its through the Indian Health Service, transportation dollars the at come to us or military construction dollars, if we have cuts like this we will be impacted in all of...
...presented by the state's proposed transportation plan are motivated by an anticipated decline in state and federal transportation dollars. It makes sense to find ways to tighten our belt during these times - and the time is coming to retire some...
Federal spending in Alaska is in decline, with federal transportation dollars alone spent in state expected to shrink by 30 percent in the coming year. Former Minnesota congressman David Minge will discuss...
...Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson was based on cost cutting and not military strategy.Federal transportation dollars to Alaska are shrinking and other sectors have been cut, Murkowski said, due to rising fuel prices."It's...
...Wilson said suspending the tax could give other states "ammunition" to argue against the large share of federal transportation dollars that go to Alaska."It shows people in Washington that we're not willing to pony up and pay our fair share...
...legislators have said that if Alaska doesn't have a gas tax it would harm their efforts at getting federal transportation dollars for Alaska.After Parnell made a renewed push for suspension of the tax, Transportation Committee leaders in...
...of the America Bikes coalition, which is using the month to call for an increased federal commitment to using transportation dollars to create a bike-friendly transportation system. Ringle said local involvement in his group shows support...
...federally recognized as Municipal Planning Organizations - from spending more than 10 percent of their federal transportation dollars on such enhancement projects. Jeff Ottesen, statewide planning chief for the state Department of Transportation...
...Alaska projects was diverted from other transportation projects, requiring the state to spend $61 million in transportation dollars on earmark projects. In May, when the change was made public, U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, told...
...pieces of bad ideas together is not a compromise, it's a pile-up. Spending hundreds of millions of scarce transportation dollars for a less convenient, less predictable, more costly transportation system is a lose-lose situation for all...