...funding within the six-year, $286 billion bill, and money for specific projects, make for a comprehensive transportation package, she said. Some provisions the senators worked hard on, what they're calling the Denali Access System...

...transportation projects deletes one of the two additional fast ferries the Knowles administration was seeking. The transportation package is based on selling "certificates of participation" that would generate immediate revenue. They would be repaid...

...improvements, as well as build a new $100 million crime laboratory in Anchorage. Palin said her $140 million transportation package would result in improvements from Southeast Alaska to the Dalton Highway, over which supplies are hauled to...

...track. In all, $111.8 million in transportation projects are on tap for Alaska as part of a $4 billion transportation package approved by Congress. Some of this largesse came during a conference committee involving key lawmakers - including...

...federal highway funds - about $35 million of $400 million would be reserved for debt payment on the $395 million transportation package. Halford said he doesn't know if there will be hearing in the finance committee. "It doesn't look like...

...school construction projects an area he focused on, once it became clear that he couldn't get both that and the transportation package, she said. And the effective date of the high school graduation exam was extended, although only for two years...

...funds. U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, is pushing for another $200 million for the bridge in the federal transportation package. Congressional staff are meeting on a daily basis, while the House and Senate are in recess, said Steve Hansen...

...maintenance, particularly in correctional facilities and Pioneers' Homes. That's on top of the $425 million transportation package he unveiled in the 2001 session. For general operations, Republican staffers have noted additional spending...

...said Wednesday. He would prefer a public vote on the projects in next year's general election, anyway. The transportation package, already passed by the House, calls for the issuance of debt through "certificates of participation," which...

...termination of state aid to the North Slope Borough School District, a capital or legislative move from Juneau, and a transportation package with one more fast ferry for Southeast. Cruise ships not in yet The Senate on Friday approved 20-0 a resolution...