Alaska Dispatch

According to the Juneau Empire, a legislative audit has determined that the state Department of Transportation shouldn't have started construction of a highway on Gravina Island after then-Gov. Palin rejected the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" when it became a political pelota. Without a bridge to link the road to the island that's home to the town of Ketchikan, the audit determined that building the road was "not in the public's best interest." Likely no one is surprised by the audit's result, but it does put an official stamp on what many had already been thinking. Read much more here. Although bureaucracies aren't known for their artistic ability, Alaska Beat considers any road that dead-ends on a remote beach to be an ambitious public art project. In light of that, the Gravina Island Highway is surely a masterpiece.