Chill sets in at Alaska-based federal agency after one boss asks DC to shut it down

foxnews.com - A tiny, federally-funded agency based in Anchorage is fighting for survival, and its biggest enemy may be within.The Denali Commission, an economic development authority set up with earmarks obtained by the late Sen. Ted Stevens, came onto the radar of budget hawks in Washington when its own inspector general wrote lawmakers to tell them they were wasting taxpayers' money."At this point, I recommend that Congress no longer send Denali an annual “base” appropriation," Denali Inspector General Mike Marsh wrote in a a June 23 letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.