[Wolfie]

Congress recently dropped its funding provisos for the bridges in Ketchikan and Anchorage, but let the state keep the money and left it up to state officials to figure out how to spend it.

Do journalists do journalism anymore? The second half of that sentence is incompatible with the first.

[RightWhale]

The word they left out is earmark. An earmark is a technical term. Earmarking allows the full funding to be allocated to a project at once. Since earmarking was removed but the funding was not, only $100 million can be allocated to each project this fiscal year. I do not know why some journalists leave out the technicalities when our society is nearly 100% technical to begin with. We know tech; we do tech; it's journalists who have a problem with tech, isn't it?