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20080913
 Sarah
Palin -  Ted
Stevens -  Don
Young -  Money
-  Politics
-  Federal
-  Transportation
-  Construction
-  Architecture
-  Alaska
-  Nevada
- 2008
Election
"Palin
Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project."
... "[2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Governor
of] Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel
spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million
"Bridge to Nowhere” between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina
Island (pop. 50). I "told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,'" she said
in her speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination. "If
our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.""
... "But Gov. Palin’s administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing
a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of
as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original
project." ... ""What the media isn't reporting is that the project isn't
dead," Roger Wetherell, spokesman for Alaska’s Department of Transportation,
said. In a process begun this past winter, the state’s DOT is currently
considering (PDF) a number of alternative solutions (five other
possible bridges or three different ferry routes) to link Ketchikan and
Gravina Island." ... "The DOT has not yet developed cost estimates for
those proposals, Wetherell said, but $73 million of the approximately $223
million [Alaska Republican Senator] Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK [Republican-Alaska])
and [Alaska Republican Representative] Rep. Don Young (R-AK [Republican-Alaska])
earmarked for the bridge in 2005 has been set aside for the Gravina Access
Project." ... "In an
interview that aired Friday night, ABC’s Charles Gibson challenged
Palin about the fact that she’d initially
supported the “Bridge to Nowhere” during her 2006 run for governor.
“I was for infrastructure being built in the state,” she said, but repeated
her line that Alaska would “find a way to build [the bridge] ourselves."”
... "The massive $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere" was to replace ferry
service from the airport to Ketchikan (departing every half-hour),
a 15-minute
ride -- meaning that air travelers are assured of reaching Ketchikan
in no more than 45 minutes. It would have done so in grand style: the planned
structure would
have been nearly as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the
Brooklyn Bridge." -By Paul
Kiel -ProPublica.org
20070613
-
 US
-  Iraq
- Religious
- Architecture
-  Terrorism
- "Minarets
blown up at revered Iraq Shi'ite shrine." ... "Suspected
al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in
the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last
year in an attack that sparked a wave of sectarian killing." ... "A senior
Iraqi government official said the attack at Samarra's Golden Mosque was
"very bad news for Iraq" while the country's top Shi'ite religious leader
urged Shi'ites not to carry out revenge attacks against minority Sunni
Arabs." ... "The U.S. military expressed concern and said it was monitoring
events after the attack, which destroyed the mosque's two golden minarets."
... "The bombing of the mosque last year, which wrecked the shrine's famous
golden dome but did not damage the minarets, was a turning point for Iraq,
unleashing sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands of people."
-By Mariam Karouny with contributions by Waleed Ibrahim
and Alister Bull -Reuters
via -AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
20060622
-
 Law
Enforcement -  Intelligence
-  Illinois
-  Florida
- "Feds:
Terror suspects targeted Sears Tower." ... "FBI agents
in an undercover sting operation arrested seven terrorism suspects in Miami
on Thursday who allegedly were plotting to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago
[Illinois], the FBI headquarters in Miami [Florida] and other U.S. buildings,
officials said." ... "The suspects had "aspirations" but "no means" to
attack the Sears Tower or other buildings, a senior federal law-enforcement
source said." ... "The men were all Muslims who thought they were plotting
"in conjunction with Al Qaeda" but they really were dealing with law-enforcement
undercover agents, one law-enforcement official told The Miami Herald."
... "The 110-story Sears Tower is the nation's tallest building. Security
was ramped up after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the 103rd-floor Skydeck was
closed for about a month and a half." -By Michael
Tackett and Jeff Zeleny with contributions by David Heinzmann and Gerry
Doyle -ChicagoTribune
20060222
-
Iraq
- Religion
-
 History
- Architecture
-  Military
- US
- "Attackers
bomb golden dome of famed Shiite mosque, spark violence across Iraq."
... "Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines
Wednesday, destroying its golden dome and triggering more than 90 reprisal
attacks on Sunni mosques. The president warned that extremists were pushing
the country toward civil war." ... "With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old
Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, leaders on both sides called for calm
and many Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame." ...
"The unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence seemed to push Iraq closer
to all-out civil war than at any point in the three years since the U.S.-led
overthrow of Saddam Hussein." ... "The Askariya shrine, also known as the
Golden Mosque, contains the tombs of two revered Shiite imams, who are
considered by Shiites to be among the successors of the Prophet Muhammad."
(1, 2,
3)
-By Ziad Khalaf -AP
via -Canada.com
20051128
-
Architecture
-
 Law
- "Piece
of Supreme Court building falls: Chunk of marble
falls onto where tourists normally enter; no one hurt." ... "A basketball-sized
piece of marble molding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme
Court Monday, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.
No one was hurt." ... "The chunk of Vermont marble was part of the dentil
molding that serves as a frame for nine sculptural figures completed in
1935. The piece that fell was over the figure of Authority, near the peak
of the building's pediment, and to the right of the figure of Liberty,
who has the scales of justice on her lap."
-AP via -MSNBC
20050915
-
 PA
- Architecture
- Religion
-
-
- "Architect
Offers Changes to 9/11 Memorial." ... "The architect
of the memorial to a plane downed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, said
Wednesday he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it honors
terrorists with its crescent-shaped design." ... "Designer Paul Murdoch
said he is ``somewhat optimistic'' that the spirit of the design could
be maintained." ... "Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., sent a letter Tuesday
to National Park Service Director Fran Mainella saying many have questioned
the shape ``because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam
- and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.'" -By
Kimberly Hefling -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
20050829
-
Louisiana
- Mississippi
-
- Sports
- Architecture
- "Katrina
batters roof of Superdome: Worst of storm still to
come for Mississippi." ... "Hurricane Katrina flogged Louisiana's southeastern
shore Monday morning with sustained winds in excess of 135 mph as it moved
inland, the National Hurricane Center said." ... "New Orleans, braced for
a catastrophic direct hit from the powerful Category 4 storm, hunkered
nearly 10,000 people in its mammoth Superdome, but Ed Reams of CNN affiliate
WDSU reported that the structure has begun leaking as the winds damaged
the roof letting daylight and rainwater in the darkened arena." ... "National
Guard troops moved people to the other side of the dome. Others were moving
beneath the concrete-reinforced terrace level."
-CNN
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