Can you provide links to these stories?
Here is one site that links to various government budget and debt reports that show exactly what I wrote to be true vis a vis Wasilla.
http://www.dailysource.org/special/palin/183
As for the windfall tax...if you don't already know about that then you really have not been paying attention.
Same for the pipeline to nowhere and its $500 million commitment of Alaska taxpayers' money.
Here's a link to the official Alaska site that charts the project. You will see that absolutely nothing has moved forward but the good people of Alaska have in fact, through palin, been committed to paying $500 million even though, in the words of the state, there is no guarantee that a pipeline will ever be built...
And this was her crowning achievement as Governor.
http://gasline.alaska.gov/inducements/inducements.html