Tustumena visit canceled for Thursday

Tustumena visit canceled for Thursday
The Alaska State Ferry M/V Tustumena scheduled to depart from Kodiak Wednesday night was canceled due to an electrical issue, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities said in a press release. Ferry workers are working to resolve the issue in order to depart Friday morning.
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POLICE BLOTTER
ID theft reported at 3:44 p.m. on the 2400 block of Lincoln Avenue. Two vehicle thefts: at 9:22 a.m. on the 900 block of Shorepoint Court; and at 11:58 p.m. on Dayton Avenue at Sherman Street.
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Katrina, Bridge to Nowhere spurred ‘storm’ that doomed earmarks
It may have looked like boom times for earmarkers in 2006, when they carved out a record billion in projects — but little did lawmakers realize that a perfect storm of events the year before had set the clock ticking on pork. What one anti-earmark operative called the “perfect …
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