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Bradley Zint / Kodiak Daily Mirror via The New York Times

The current airstrip in Ouzinkie

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Stimulus projects: Boondoggle and necessity

Published: August 18th, 2009 07:52 AM
Last Modified: August 18th, 2009 02:41 PM

Link: The New York Times The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island. The $3.4 million for fencing and tunnels to keep Florida turtles from becoming roadkill. Those proposals for spending federal stimulus money were all criticized by cable news commentators, Republican officials and, in the case of the airport, the inspector general of the Transportation Department. But they have something else in common, too. They are popular locally. Dan Clarion, the maintenance manager and harbor master in Ouzinkie on Kodiak Island, said the new airport is vital for safety reasons, and "many times it's the only way we can get in and out."

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