Time,
After the last decade nothing makes me cringe as does: "Sometimes we have to spend to make" or similar platitudes.  I would put this trail idea idea up there with KABATA, the Kodiak Space Port, the Fish Plant, the Railroad to nowhere, the Ambler Road, the Trucking Gas to Fairbanks from the North Slope, the Delta Barley Project, AGIA, ASAP, etc, and now the mother of all pork daydreams - AKLNG.  We now need stewards of the people's money and I was hoping a member of the legislative minority would not have such a tin ear given the current fiscal climate.