This ought to tell us all something about the Conoco caucus` priorities. They won`t build a school for a long historic community in Kivalina, but the Finance committee chair`s Juneau road to her husband`s gold mine is in the budget, and after spending hundreds of millions, it will cost the state 20 million A YEAR in maintainance costs just to keep it open and safe with the expected rock snow and avalanches. 
  The road to Juneau some want to carve out of the mountain to the mine is something we don`t need and cannot afford now.  The current senate Finance Chair said she didn`t know about the mine being at the end of the "proposed" road.  That`s easy to understand, it`s such a minor thing.............
Half a billion to build it, and 20 million a year to maintain it..a road we don`t need,..or 32.5 million for a LIO we don`t need, pretty soon we`talking some real money.  That`s what`s in their current budget. But they don`t want to cut the 700 million in corporate welfare to Conoco etc.