Ted Stevens wins primary; Don Young's race too close to call
Submitted by crew on 27 August 2008 - 9:23am.
Don Young Ted Stevens
Yesterday was primary day in Alaska.
The incumbent Senator, Ted Stevens, and the incumbent House member, Don Young, are both enmeshed in public corruption scandals. Both were listed in CREW's report, Beyond DeLay, as among the 22 most corrupt members of Congress
Stevens won his primary.
As of this morning, Young's race couldn't be called -- it's too close.
The Anchorage Daily News is monitoring results.
Stevens won his primary.
Submitted by fred (not verified) on 27 August 2008 - 10:27am.
Money talks and bull shit walks.
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End in sight on lawsuit over sports center land
HEARING: Case is set to go to the Supreme Court in August.
By RINDI WHITE
rwhite@adn.com
(07/25/08 01:53:33)
WASILLA -- Settlement is in sight on a 9-year-old court battle over land on which Wasilla's Multi-Use Sports Complex is built.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski on Monday signed an order giving developer Gary Lundgren $314,739 in attorney fees and court costs in an eminent domain case the city filed against Lundgren's land in December 2002. In eminent domain cases, the plaintiff typically pays the defendants' court fees.
Combined with $837,000 that the city paid last year for the raw land and another $362,000 in interest payments paid in December 2007, the total price tag for the 80 acres comes to $1.5 million.
City attorney Tom Klinkner, with Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, last year estimated that the city paid his firm about $250,000 more to litigate the case.
That's not a bad deal. Lundgren had valued the property at about $2.4 million, said Greg Miller, the attorney with Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot who has been arguing the case on behalf of the City of Wasilla since 2005.
Still it's a lot more than the roughly $125,000 the city would have paid in 1998 if it had closed a deal to buy the property outright.