Newsweek has the detail. The road, with $26 million of your money in it, is almost done. As the mayor points out, you could use it for a 10k: a nice flat paved surface with no risk of traffic.
How often are reporters going to have to debunk the McCain/Palin claim that she was fiscally responsible in her use of pork before they stop telling that lie? It’s not as if they don’t have other lies to tell.
Newsweek has the detail. The road, with $26 million of your money in it, is almost done. That’s about half a million dollars for each of the residents of the island, but it’s not as if they’re going to be using it, since it goes to an empty beach. As the mayor of Ketchian points out, you could use it for a 10k: a nice flat paved surface with no risk of traffic.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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