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“I beg to differ with the premise of this economic stimulus package that it, as a whole, stimulates the economy when you look at the programs that are entailed in this economic stimulus package, the programs that could end up costing a state so much more at the end of the day, those don’t necessarily stimulate the economy. Construction projects do, they bring jobs,” Palin said.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin, along with two of her commissioners, met Friday in Fairbanks to sign TransCanada's license to construct a natural gas pipeline.The signing happened Friday morning at the Morris Thompson Visitor's Center.Friday also marked the two-year anniversary since Palin and her administration met in Fairbanks to kick off meetings with all of the parties interested in commercializing North Slope gas."This is a historic day for Alaska and for the North American continent when you consider the impacts this project will have on this part of our world," Palin said.Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin and Revenue Commissioner...

Federal agents contend that a Pennsylvania man tried to work with al Qaeda in a plot to blow up the Alaska pipeline, another pipeline in Pennsylvania and a refinery in New Jersey, according to a published report. Michael Curtis Reynolds, 47, has not officially been charged with terrorism, but a prosecutor at a hearing said that Reynolds tried to "provide material aid to al Qaeda" and that the case "involves a federal offense of terrorism," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in its Sunday editions. CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston reports that a tip from Shannen Rossmiller - a judge from Conrad,...