Sarah's America

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I love this bit from a September 2 Wall Street Journal article about Wasilla, Alaska, under the Sarah Palin regime:

Wasilla has neither a planning nor a zoning board, and it shows. “The box stores and businesses are king,” says Curt Menard, mayor of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which includes Wasilla. The town “is a wild, wild West show, in the development sense.”

City officials do review projects, but “I haven’t seen anything stopped,” says the 64-year-old Mr. Menard, who has a small airstrip in his yard...