In proportion to the size of Alaska's population and Economy, this is one of the biggest hit of any state in the Union.
While Stevens is making the usual and expected noises, he's not on much better ground than congresscritters from any other State, with the exception of One "Little" Fact: Alaska is going to be on the Front Lines of the next conflict (with N.Korea), and those Airbases will be primary assets (as well as prime targets). In fact Alaska is the only state in an vulnerable position in the entire country unless Castro gets missiles again.
This sort of reminds me of the Time Magazine article recommending disbanding the Marine corp just before Gulf One.
There should be a thread about the withdrawal of the primary contractor from negotiations with the Alaska Port Authority for construction of the AllAlaska natural gas pipeline today. Big feather to Rick Rydell for spotting this weeks before it happened.