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  • State ends planning for bridge to Gravina [Project that nation labeled "pork" is abandoned.]

    09/22/2007 11:28:50 AM PDT · by skeptoid · 28 replies · 447+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | September 22, 2007 | STEVE QUINN
    Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere. The bridge is going nowhere. On Friday, the state abandoned the controversial project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork-barrel spending. It closes a chapter that has brought the state reams of ridicule, but it also leaves open wounds in a community that fought for decades to get federal help. "We went through political hot water -- tons of it -- and not just nationally but internationally," said Ketchikan-Gateway Borough Mayor Joe Williams. "We have nothing to show for it." The $398...