US House votes against continued payments to logging communities

Thu, June 5, 2008 
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

A program that provides payments to rural counties and boroughs affected by reduced logging in national forests expires at the end of this month. But today, the U.S. House voted down a bill that would have continued the program.

Joel Southern, APRN – Anchorage

 
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