The View From ‘Nowhere’

Mayor Kiffer: Well said. Perspective is always subject to motive and expedience and lack of real understanding. You have provided a truly based perspective and as clearly and simply as such a topic deserves. Using your comments on this matter, I should think you community will be the better for your contributions.

It is obvious that the majority of lower 48 people don't have a clue about the difficulties trying to make a life in Alaska. I would like each one putting down the "Bridge" to do without Federal projects in the town for over 32 years. Maybe we should stop sending "OUR" oil and fish and timber to you,and instead send it all out of the country. Have a nice day!!!

Pass a local bond issue to get the local bridge you want. IF Obama is elected, you can kiss your bridge idea goodbye, he will divide the needed (govt) funds up to all those people who have never (and dont) worked and paid in taxes!! When are people going to wake up and realize, tax payers are sick and tired of supporting welfare for those who wont work and illegal aleins!! At the rate of "sharing" proposed by Obama, you will never get your bridge, because all the working, tax payers will have their INCREASED taxes put into the "Pork Pot" and distributed to all the "welfare" low-lifes!

As I recall, when this whole thing about the bridge was coming down, even the media portrayed it as a "bridge to nowhere" and hung it up as the poster child for pork barrel spending. So stop whining, maybe if the town would have presented its case better it would have gotten the bridge. I believe that Governor Palin was speaking somewhat metaphorically when she talked about the "bridge to nowhere," so get over it. I agree, let the cruise lines and airlnes pony up for the bridge. Make it a toll bridge and then they can get repayed. 250,000 people passing through is hardly something for the taxpayers to mess with. By the way, how do you get to the airport now, backstroke?

The last person to comment is a moron. Please keep your retard levels to a minimun when posting to this discussion. One more thing... JT2008 try keeping your nose out of Palin's ass for a moment and maybe you'll see the bigger picture.

To me this article sounds like a kindergartner who got insulted and never got over it. Who cares if they called it the Bridge to Nowhere? That was a long time ago. Get over it! And shame on you for speaking poorly of your governor who works so hard to make your state a great place to live!

To me, this article sounded like an insulted kindergartner who got made fun of and never got over it. It just sounds like a bunch of sniveling to me. Who cares if it was called the Bridge to Nowhere? That was years ago. Get over it. And shame on you for speaking poorly of your governor who works hard to make sure your state is a great place to live!!

GIVE THIS CITY THERE BRIDGE----YOU PROMISED THEM 30 YEARS AGO----I WOULD BE DAMN IF THIS IS A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE!Times are hard---this would be a good place for America to put people to work----build them there bridge----instead of using it for political votes---Ketchikan fight for your bridge more than ever----this man from Missouri says build that bridge! Randy E. Braun

Correction, $10 billion a month in Iraq, not to mention how much we're spending in Afghanistan, which is where we need to focus our efforts against the real terrorists. A new day will come January 2009, & just really hope we don't have another Republican in office. Not to say McCain is not an honorable man, I respect him as a veteran & honorable Senator, but the US really needs change in our administration & in congress. The US is fast losing it's standard as a respected nation in the world, & our standard of living is declining. The US needs to get back to the basics, & start investing in our own communities, education, infrastructure, science & technology. The corporate profits & motives of the politically elite do not serve the average US taxpayer & there needs to be fundamental change in our nation. "Sharing the wealth" is another term that doesn't make much sense, since the large part of our wealth comes from "you know who" the US taxpayer, so I believe that wealth needs to refocused BACK in the US economy & benefit all of us. I'm no longer willing to spend our wealth on other countries that hate us, & in an occupation that costs "$10 billion dollars a MONTH" not to mention what it's going to cost us for the care of the veterans coming back from this war & occupation. Those are costs that we haven't even factored in, I fear that will cost us more that we ever imaged!!

I have two real good ideas to solve the problem that Ketchikan and all of Alaska has regarding their bridges, roads, and other infrastructure. Pay a state income tax like many of the rest of us Americans do for the purposes of building and maintaining infrastructure within your state.. Take some of the money that the oil companies pay each resident of the state of Alaska each year and build and maintain your infrastructure. I, for one, am tired of subsidizing Alaska's less than 1 million people with federal dollars when they have the ability to take care of their own problems using their money, not mine. Until then they should quit complaining about other Americans' complaints about the "Bridge to Nowhere.". Alaska still got the money that the "Bridge to Nowhere" would have cost from the federal governmentt. That cash still went to their infrastructure. I wish they would send me some of that money and fix the road in front of my house.

What a great story about people and the bridge to nowhere which is actually to somewhere with people in the state of Alaska! I am voting for Obama and me liking the story has nothing to do with Palin. Just that I think this is a heartwarming story about real people amongst all of the negative stuff we are hearing in the campaign.