do all alaskan politicians get free houses?

I don't know whether this will be a Big Story, but indispensable Alaskan politics blogger Mudflats has uncovered word that a bunch of Alaskan contractors chipped in to build a house for their buddies Sarah and Todd Palin just because that's the kind of people they are. Not because the town of Wasilla - one Sarah Palin, Mayor - had just given a huge contract to those contractors for the biggest project in Wasilla's history.

There is a lot of that going around in Alaska, it seems.