Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski was taking a lot of heat from the Anchorage media for buying a jet to fly around the state. Never mind the governor of Maryland has a jet and you can ride a bicycle across Maryland in one day. But once he got the jet we started seeing him in Kotzebue more often, and local leaders got a chance to sit down with him and talk turkey. It made a big difference for us out here in the Bush, 600 miles from Anchorage. Here he socializes with NW Arctic Borough Public Safety Director Tom Bolen, on the left, and the school district's building and maintenence man, Craig McConnell. Face time with the top dog is important. Too bad the road system journalists have never heard of the Bush.