Enter your email address to follow Craigmedred. Email Address. Follow Now. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Widely popular outside the 49th state, it was not so popular within. Some Alaskans accused McGinnis of taking liberties with the truth. McGinnis discovered the wages of greed in the person of a used-up Valdez prostitute turned cocaine courierβ¦.
I arrived in Alaska not long before the pipeline started and lived through the early part of construction. What happened in the state then is more than a little pertinent to what could happen tomorrow if a natural gas pipeline starts construction. Four bundles fit in there, and he walked out of the bank that way holding this fist full of cash. After all these years, I finally looked it up. Back then, I just remember thinking it was a shitload of money.
I remember standing next to him at a downtown stoplight on Cushman Street. It was a thought driven not by any desire to commit a crime but by the recognition that someone acting so damn stupid deserved to have someone steal the money. And maybe someone did. By the end of the day, he might well have become the victim of a robbery.
There were so many of them a young cops and court reporter ignored them. They were too ordinary. It was almost true. Thirty-two people died in construction of the pipeline, and the state was awash in whores, although the vast majority were imported from Outside. Still, there was no doubt but that the quiet was shattered not just along the pipeline route but just about everywhere in road-connected Alaska.
Anchorage might not have been as crazy as Fairbanks but it was a close. To simplify, it says the gasline impacts might look a whole lot like the oil pipeline impacts.
