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Mark Begich: “When I was mayor, the city's size, geographic size, was 1,900 square miles, so you can imagine the many different areas…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
When I was mayor, the city's size, geographic size, was 1,900 square miles, so you can imagine the many different areas we had kind of--it was unified, but it still had communities within that considered themselves small town cities, even though they were part of the same municipality.
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Mark Begich
Democratic · Alaska

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Begich reflects on his experience as mayor managing diverse communities.

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