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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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