Don Young

Don Young To GOP: Earmark Ban Schmearmark Ban

Zachary Roth | March 16, 2010, 2:53PM

Rep. Don Young (R-AK)

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) praising earmarks is hardly news. After all, the Alaska lawmaker, whose "generous appetite for legislative pork," was once noted by the New Republic, is a co-sponsor of the Bridge to Nowhere, and bragged of an appropriations bill that he had "stuffed it like a turkey" with homestate spending items.

But these days, Young's pro-earmark position isn't jibing too well with the image the GOP caucus wants to project. Eager to present themselves as more restrained than House Democrats and the Obama administration, House Republicans last week announced a one-year earmark hiatus.

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Bill Allen

Star Witness In Alaska Corruption Cases Begins Prison Term

Justin Elliott | January 13, 2010, 2:25PM

Bill Allen, former owner of VECO

Bill Allen, the Alaska businessman whose secretly taped declaration, "Ted, I love you," was played during the Ted Stevens corruption trial, reported to prison in California yesterday, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

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