Ron Arnold: Feds cause Alaskan road crisis

Published February 21, 2013 5:00am ET



Republican Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s at-large representative in the U.S. House, is hopping mad. Three weeks ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caved in to affluent urban Big Green pressure groups and refused to allow a congressionally approved life-saving road in the remote Aleutian Islands to connect isolated King Cove to Cold Bay, which has the only reliable medical evacuation airport in the region.

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