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Alaskans Fret About a Future Without Help From 'Uncle Ted'
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 31, 2008 09:01am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, July 31, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 31, 2008; Page A01
ANCHORAGE, July 30 -- Alaska's vast landscape is littered with federally funded tributes to Sen. Ted Stevens's single-minded promotion of the state, from the brushed steel of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to the $187 million that subsidizes air mail for the one-third of residents who live beyond the reach of roads.
In his almost 40 years in the Senate, the octogenarian Republican in many ways defined the shape of the Last Frontier, not least by using his perch on the Appropriations Committee to ensure that his state's tiny population remained the nation's richest in federal spending per capita. More than $9 billion arrived in Alaska from Washington in 2006, twice as much as a decade earlier.
So it was perhaps to be expected that many here greeted the news of Stevens's indictment on corruption charges as if they were condemned to a pauper's death, fearful that they will no longer be able to depend on the largess of "Uncle Ted." |
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