HOUSING TO NOWHERE EARMARK: Buried in that lengthy list of nearly 14,000 earmarks sought by senators is one for Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for $2 million in housing project funding. Nothing unusual about that, so far.

Then we learn that the South Naknek housing project is for a village with 67 residents. The place is so remote that the few kids living there must use an airplane to get to and from school! Chuck Schumer has an earmark that will make the New York Met Opera sing, and Hawaii’s two Democrat senators, Hirono and Schattz, want nearly $7 million for a bike path. Details here in The Washington Stand.