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Don Young: “Now my staff say it would be the borough. And if the borough can stop the city, and my colleague knows how local…”

On the recordMay 10, 2000
Now my staff say it would be the borough. And if the borough can stop the city, and my colleague knows how local governments are, I do not object to local government, but I do not want local governments to have the leg up on any one of them when the city has--and by the way, we want to build hockey rinks. The borough, I am not sure they would do that. But if they said, no, they are not going to build any hockey rinks.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing local government authority and its impact on city projects.

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