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Gov. Sarah Palin will give her second state of the state address to the Legislature this afternoon. Here’s a few graphs from the story I wrote about her first one, which I must say seems like it happened more than a year ago.

JUNEAU — Gov. Sarah Palin used her first State of the State address Wednesday to pitch new ideas, explain her fiscal philosophy, and propose a dramatic change to the state’s approach for getting a natural gas pipeline.

“We need progress on a project, and competition to result in the best project,” she said, speaking before a joint session of the state Legislature. “We don’t need endless discussions behind closed doors.”

Palin said she would set aside the contract negotiated by former Gov. Frank Murkowski, as well as the law he used to create it. The contract asked the state to give up “fundamental rights” relating to taxing, regulatory and judicial authority, she said, and the Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act no longer applied because the project was economic and the gas no longer “stranded.”

Instead, Palin proposed a new law spelling out what incentives the state was willing to offer and what it would demand in return. Any company interested in building a pipeline would be able to submit a proposal, and the state would pick the best one. . . .

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Think she did what she promised?