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  Don Young - Free net encyclopedia
Young began his political career in 1964 when he was elected mayor of Fort Yukon.
Young is the 8th-longest serving House member, and the 3rd most senior Republican (ranked only by Bill Young of Florida and Ralph Regula of Ohio).
According to The New Republic, Young is "well-known for his sharp elbows and generous appetite for legislative pork."[1] His reputation for steering federal dollars to Alaska is almost as legendary as that of Stevens.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Don_Young   (748 words)

  
  Don Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Young is married to the former Lula Fredson.
Young is the 8th-longest serving House member, and the 3rd most senior Republican (ranked only by Bill Young of Florida and Ralph Regula of Ohio).
According to The New Republic, Young is "well-known for his sharp elbows and generous appetite for legislative pork."[1] His reputation for steering federal dollars to Alaska is almost as legendary as that of Stevens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Young   (981 words)

  
 CD Baby: DON ROBERTSON: Keys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Don Robertson was born in Denver, Colorado in 1942.
Don's dream was to one day become a composer himself, and using little composition notebooks, he tried to write down the childish melodies that he could create on the upright piano that his grandmother had donated to the cause.
Don produced six albums during the course of the next seven years and his music found its way onto hundreds of radio stations across America and in Europe, Malaysia, Finland, Sweden, and Australia and was a part of the growing new age music genre.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/donrobertson   (3036 words)

  
 Donald Young Luxury Tented African Safaris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Young was guiding his safari group on a walking safari, tracking a bull elephant that had walked through their camp the night before.
Young estimated that this was an adult female from at least the middle stone age of 50,000 years ago.
Young immediately reported the find to Dr. Meave Leakey, then head of the Paleoanthropology Department at the National Museums of Kenya and she visited the site with her mother in law, the late Dr, Mary Leakey.
www.donyoungsafaris.com /journal.html   (685 words)

  
 EI > Interviews > Don Young
Don Young is a hard working actor who has worked as an extra and character actor.
Don Young is representative of a majority of actors who aren't household names or faces, but nonetheless play and important role in the world of film and television.
Don Young: People come up to me all the time and ask if that was me. A snotty guy said, 'I saw you.
www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/donyoung.php   (993 words)

  
 Driven…
Young captured consecutive Winston world championship titles in 1984 and 1985 and remains the only drag racing champion to be honored posthumously.
Young installed a Compucar nitrous oxide system and fuel injection to his Monza and regularly qualified on the bottom half of the ladder.
Young's accomplishments were recognized at the year's remaining national events and several tracks held benefit races and donated the profits.
www.competitionplus.com /06_17_2004/don_young.html   (1985 words)

  
 Don Young - Congresspedia
Young came to the House as an advocate of the trans-Alaska pipeline, tenaciously promoting the interests of mining, oil, timber, loggers, drillers and developers seeking to open up Alaska to commercial interests.
According to The New Republic, Young is "well-known for his sharp elbows and generous appetite for legislative pork."[5] His reputation for steering federal dollars to Alaska is almost as legendary as that of Stevens.
Young serves on the advisory board of National Wilderness Institute, an organization that claims to be the "voice of reason on the enviornment." NWI is dedicated to weakening the Endangered Species Act and other environmental protections.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Don_Young   (1864 words)

  
 Don Young | America Needs 435 Real Americans to run for Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Don Young's son-in-law has a stake in a subdivision near the proposed "Bridge to Nowhere"...
Stevens was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Young is chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
Young was tenth-most favored in the House, with $652,448, according to the Public Citizen analysis.
benfrank.net /patriots/news/alaska/don_young   (1509 words)

  
 <BAM SE> - Life's a Tag ... Code It: Why don't young people vote?
Young People can refer to the high school students that turn 18 during their senior year and are too involved with pep rallies, homecoming, prom and their high school sweethearts to follow the campaign trail.
SHU has a Young Republicans group on campus because there are students who think it is important to spread the word.
You make it sound like the only reason "young" people don't vote is because they are superficial and "are too involved with pep rallies, homecoming, prom and their high school sweet hearts." THAT IS REDICULOUS.
blogs.setonhill.edu /BrianMcCollum/004675.html   (528 words)

  
 Coyote Blog: The New Huey Long
Don Young (R-AK) is vying to become the new Huey Long.
If Rep. Young succeeds, tiny Ketchikan, Alaska, a town with less than 8,000 residents (about 13,000 if the entire county is included) will receive hundreds of millions of federal dollars to build a bridge to Gravina Island (population: 50).
Young's isn't done yet, however, and before this bill is law, Alaska's share of earmarks will likely increase even more.
www.coyoteblog.com /coyote_blog/2005/05/the_new_huey_lo.html   (726 words)

  
 Don Young: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gary Young (who is one of the foremost authorities on essential oils in North America), has not only the education and experience to produce the purest and highest quality products, but also has a strong, personal reason.
He grew up in the mountains of central Idaho with no electricity or running water, where he and his brothers and sisters were taught by their parents how to live from the earth.
Young pioneered the field of blood crystallization, and helped advance and enlighten the study of the blood in its relationship to bacteria and viruses.
www.zoominfo.com /people/young_don_11238792.aspx   (1009 words)

  
 Committee Chairman Runs Into Watch-List Problem (washingtonpost.com)
Don Young, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has become the latest member of Congress to reveal he was mistaken for a suspected terrorist at an airline ticket counter.
Young said he had booked his name on his ticket as "Donald E. Young." He did not miss his flight, because he arrived at the airport two hours early, he said, but he had a similar experience when he attempted to check in for his connecting flight in Seattle.
Young said he supported an amendment that would allow travelers to appeal to the government if they are mistaken for a person on a terrorist watch list.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A60762-2004Sep29.html   (495 words)

  
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 The Democratic Party | Community Blogs | AlaskaDon1's Blog: Will #2 Dumbest Congressman Young get to #1 or be Defeated??
Congressman Don Young, already in office for 20 years, is on the stump preaching the virtues of Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution to a group of high school students.
Young's performance remains a classic in the annals of congressional idiocy, offering that rare, supremely unselfconscious moment in which one of our nation's legislative solons lets his addled mind graze freely.
The Clock is ticking in the Diane Benson (D) vs. Don Young (incumbent, R) race for the single At-Large Alaska congressional seat.
www.democrats.org /page/community/post/dongray/CLX5   (715 words)

  
 CARA: Don Young on KFAR Radio (Fairbanks)
Young: Well, you tell me in that bill where it says that there'll be any more federally owned land than there is presently owned today.
Young: It goes to the general fund and it is appropriated for other programs, such as, God knows what.
Young: It's being...not under law...it's being appropriated under appropriators, being misspent by the appropriators what we need to do...
www.landrights.org /OCS/CARA_Young_KFAR_5.1.00.htm   (2881 words)

  
 Joseph Don Carlos Young, Sr., Utah Architect
Young was succeeded in this teaching role by William Ward, a stonecarver and sculptor, who turned architect after his return to Utah in 1888.
Joseph H. Young, the grandson of Joseph Don Carlos Young, Sr., continued the family tradition of architecture.
His father, Joseph Don Carlos Young Jr., was a primary architect for the original LDS Church Office Building on South Temple and Joseph H. worked on the 28-story LDS Church Office Building on North Temple.
www.byhigh.org /History/Young/JosDonCarlosSr.html   (485 words)

  
 The Blog | Joel Makower: Young Analysts Don’t Put Their Money on Sustainability | The Huffington Post
Young analysts appear unconvinced over the materiality of most environmental, social, and governance issues to business; unable to consider them because of inadequate information, training, or tools; and unwilling to depart from business as usual because of conflicts with remuneration, career advancement, or culture.
Lack of recognition of the importance of ESG issues among young analysts is indicative of this larger blindness.
Young people today are faced with the choice of buying into the cynical, selfish system that's in place or being kept on the fringe to suffer in isolation.
www.huffingtonpost.com /joel-makower/young-analysts-dont-pu_b_6182.html   (878 words)

  
 Heritage Policy Blog
First we learned that the Murkowski family--the state's governor is Frank Murkowski and one of its senators is his daughter, Lisa Murkowski--owns a property on Gravina Island--one of only a couple dozen there in total--that would appreciate significantly if the government paid for a bridge to the island.
And then there's the Knik Arm bridge, Alaska's other Bridge to Nowhere, dubbed "Don Young's Way," a name that many believed was intended to showcase the Representative's passion for federally-funded boondoggle infrastructure projects in the state.
Young's daughter, Joni, said he has discussed his acquisition of the 60 acres with Mr.
www.heritage.org /press/dailybriefing/policyweblog.cfm?blogid=48B816BE-BE54-017F-BBBB0B74CE0BB95E   (711 words)

  
 TPMmuckraker: Don Young Archives
We've been banging the Don Young drum for a little while here at TPM, because it's just not clear to us that Rep. Young (R-AK) really had "no personal or professional relationship" with Jack Abramoff, as he has claimed.
Now, it's been reported already that Rep. Young used Abramoff's skyboxes for fundraisers before Abramoff's fall from grace.
Young apparently asked Calvert to ask Abramoff if he could use one of his skyboxes for his fundraisers.
www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/cats/don_young   (533 words)

  
 Think Progress » “Chief Porker” Don Young Refuses To Share Bacon With Katrina Victims
Don Young (R-AK) is a self-proclaimed “little oinker” and aspires to be the “chief porker.” Your tax dollars make his dream possible.
Young is chairman of Congress’s Transportation and Infrastructure Commitee and has ensured that the six-year $295 billion transportation bill is “stuffed like a turkey” with $721 million in projects for Alaska.
Young teens, many wo live in such disfunctional families, just want out, want something to call theirs, and sadly having a child, is what this generation of teens want.
thinkprogress.org /2005/09/20/chief-porker   (8804 words)

  
 Old Don Young Had a Farm
Don Young's "way" is to use his position as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to bring home as many federal dollars as possible for his home state.
Young's eponymous bridge isn't even the most egregious bit of largesse.
Young claims the bridge will facilitate Ketchikan's growth by providing ground access to the airport on Gravina Island, a rationale that is sure to be mentioned in a "documentary about infrastructure that demonstrates advancements in Alaska, the last frontier," to which the highway bill allots another $3 million.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/079wqklw.asp   (594 words)

  
 The GOP Auction House: Don Young of Alaska
Young voted against allowing millions of Americans to save their hard-earned dollars on prescription drugs by re-importing them from Canada, even though these were U.S. made and patient safety was ensured.
Young voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.
Young opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
www.dccc.org /gopauctionhouse/members/DonYoungAK-AL.html   (670 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
The bridge will be called Don Young's Way after Alaska's lone House member, who also serves as chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
Young's son-in-law, is part owner of 60 acres of what he described as "beautiful property" on land that will be opened up to development by the bridge.
Young's spokesman told me that his boss had nothing more to add other than what was already on the public record.
www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110007930   (1433 words)

  
 Don Young Talks About DU's Work in Lousiana to Stop the Loss of Coastal Marsh
Don Young, executive vice president of Ducks Unlimited, spoke to reporters in New Orleans, La., on Aug. 1 about the work Ducks Unlimited has done and is planning to stop the loss of coastal marsh.
The following remarks were made by Don Young, executive vice president of Ducks Unlimited, at America's Energy Coast Press Conference in New Orleans, La., on Aug. 1, 2006 at the Audubon Aquarium of the America's Gulf of Mexico Exhibit.
DU Executive Vice President Don Young speaks in favor of a Louisiana constitutional amendment that all future offshore revenues that Louisiana receives be dedicated to coastal restoration and hurricane protection.
www.ducks.org /states/44/news/pub/article847.html   (877 words)

  
 Don Young Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Don Young was born on Thursday, October 18, 1945, in Houston, Texas.
Young was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 9, 1965, with the Chicago Cubs.
Did you know that you can compare Don Young to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1965 National League season?
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=youngdo01   (295 words)

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