Ardors: 14 years of economic development; these organizations were formed to create jobs in rural Alaska. Some fall short of their original goal, but all work toward economic development throughout the state.

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Alaska Regional Development Organizations

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Ardors: 14 years of economic development; these organizations were formed to create jobs in rural Alaska. Some fall short of their original goal, but all work toward economic development throughout the state.

Each year, when the Alaska Legislature ponders the billion or so dollars that comprise the state's budget, a few minutes--in some office or committee room--are set aside to consider the fate of the $660,000 line item to continue funding of ARDORs.

Each year, it seems, it takes just a little more convincing to hold the red pencil at bay.

ARDORs--Alaska Regional Development Organizations--came into the world in 1988 with great promise. Fourteen years later, ARDORs could be compared to a teenager growing up in a large, extended family: seen by some as failing to live up...

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