Alaska's $77,000,000 'airport to nowhere' - VIDEO

[Tx4obama]

An airport in a remote part of Alaska is under scrutiny for costing millions in taxpayer funds. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports.

VIDEO: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/10/07/tuchman-alaska-airport.cnn

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. This was a bogus story the first time it came out and it is not any better now

[Tx4obama]

2. Please explain why you think it is bogus? n/t

[struggle4progress]

3. It's a true story. Here's Alaska's request for comments in January 2011:

http://notes3.state.ak.us/pn/pubnotic.nsf/1604e1912875140689256785006767f6/fc3a6f7722f834cd89257826008103e8?OpenDocument

Here's a Juneau Empire story from March 2011:

Advocates of rural community defend 'airport to nowhere'
Construction on $76 million project in Akutan expected to begin this year
Posted: Sunday, March 07, 2010
By JEREMY HSIEH
http://juneauempire.com/stories/030710/sta_571815038.shtml

Here's an Anchorage Daily News story from September 2011:

A $64 million 'airstrip to nowhere' in the Aleutians?
Published: September 27th, 2011 06:26 PM
Last Modified: September 27th, 2011 06:27 PM
http://www.adn.com/2011/09/27/2091999/a-64-million-airstrip-to-nowhere.html

[MADem]

4. Good grief--that video is something else. Imagine where that money could have

gone to do some real good? Starting, say, with the infrastructure of that impoverished town the airport purports to serve?