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Just Wondering about the legality of transferring a STATE pension to the CITY, something doesnt strike me as appropriate about this??????
I support a flat rate income tax on all working people earning money in Alaska (including outside consultants). Taking PFD dividends from people only hurts the low income, certainly... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
So, you live on Crest Drive? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
After using our system for so long, the polling place method seems antiquated and clumsy if all that happens is voting. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
I strongly encourage everyone to support (2) year term limits, these positions should be viewed as a service to your state not a career with a pension!!!! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First Grade? As in 6 or 7 years of age? 8 years at the most? If this isn't a clear indication that society has gone to the dogs, I don't know what does. How awful, how totally awful that children this young can even contemplate such a thing, let alone get into the planning stage of such behavior. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Does she call you Mr. Crum? Does this respect go both ways? I generally don't call people Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms, or Dr. And people don't call me Mr. I'm not dissing anybody and I certainly don't feel dissed.
Now Patty is not just bright and intellectually engaged, she's lovely and dignified! She has considerable intelli... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I have lived on the Kenai Peninsula for over 40yrs, I tend to agree with most of the commenters here. I like pike and I don't think that they create as much danger to Salmon as ADF&G says. Heck, they have always been in Macky Lake and other lakes around it for decades until they poisoned them last year. Spent over a... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
well, you can only work with what you were born with. I addressed the fact it was trump's wife that was originally attacked, Parker explained this is ok. I addressed Parker's staggering hypocrisy. But obviously you're too stupid to grasp this and why you deflect through your babbling nonsense unable to follow a post th... | 0.828125 | 0.046875 | 0.15625 | 0 | 0.796875 | 0.015625 | 0 |
This post has nothing to do with the bills in the legislature. The governor actually wants to tax Alaskans--read his ultimatum letter to the legislators. The senate has held strong to cutting waste and inefficiencies in the bureaucracy. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Good comments here. Had an idea to contribute. When the building turns out to be empty eyesore, it can be deeded to the city and converted into homeless quarters and bicycle parking........... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Simply don't agree with ETD. Maybe if you had lived here for 45yrs! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teri Lembeck. Did you know that 47% of Alaskans would not pay any state income tax because they do not pay any federal income tax which the governor's tax is based on? So, free healthcare through Medicaid, free food, free cell phone, and free housing if you are an inebriate in Anchorage. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
But I always enjoyed going to the polling place, chatting with the volunteers and other voters, closing the curtain and actually pulling a lever.
As far as why Maricopa election officials did what they did, it's hard to determine the goals of people who are so inept that they think that letting likely Democratic vote... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Shelley Rogers. You need to read the bill. The AK Performance Scholarship program will continue for those who graduate fm high school this year and those already in the program. Did you know that this also funds UNCONSTITUTIONAL schools such as private and religious schools? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Lunchtime seaweed? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
So you might normally call her something that would be considered unsuitable for a family newspaper? Are you that intimate with her? You can call me whatever you want. I'm not the one that needs SGH (kudos to 40-20 for that term). | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
76Kenworth. How can the AEG program fund private colleges in AK? That is unconstitutional. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paul Costello. We don't educate AK students today! Where have you been? We now pay more than $22,000 per student and our 4th grade low income students are dead last in the nation in reading. AND our upper/middle income students are 49th out of 51 states and DC in 4th grade reading. Just plain broken and has stolen chil... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lizzy - A couple points. You went on to Sean's Facebook page and took a comment, a private comment, that is in no way related to the restaurant. You linked to a white supremacist blog creates a dichotomy of "us" and "them" and insinuates that Sally is a white supremacist, or espouses views similar to white supremacists... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
You and your Union lackies are exactly why we need change. Take care, will talk more when the tax payers are paying for your benefits. Namaste. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Some students use the scholarship to go Outside to college. Also funds students to go to private and religious schools! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Just to be clear, that post was public on Facebook and was sent to WW. You can tell a post is public by the little Earth icon. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The seniors have not recieved a COLA for (3) years now, with increases in the medical insurance deductions. How many of these state employees have gone this long since a salary increase or benefits??? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ah thanks for the head's up. Must have got moved around in the editing of the piece but I added it back in. Sally Krantz is the owner of Saffron Colonial. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Well, that provides a bit of insight. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Spank the kids, and focus on this corrupt government. | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
I think money is great for parks, but not for wanna be cop rangers harassing the public
We did not have an income tax 30 years ago, last income tax was 1978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pike are not evil and they are very good to eat. Their high reproductive rate allows them to be heavily fish by most everyone. Most rainbows on the Kenai taste like mud. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Heads liberals win, tales conservatives lose. This court thing will haunt the right wing, and rightfully so given the games they are playing. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 |
Perhaps we could divide our state into say 5-6 sections and then have a legislator representing each if those sections, limit the job to two years (as a token service to your country) and thus doing away with these huge salaries and lingering pensions with benefits. This wiuld save our state millions of dollars. Thes... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I try hard not to criticize 'Republicans'. I know and love many Republican families.
It's a different story for the Republican leadership. Their clear and obvious attempts to exclude Americans for voting, leaves me virtually unable to support any Republican who is complicit in the lies of supposed 'fraud'. Thes... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Lets keep your fetishes out of this and deal with the issue at hand. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
If you have the slightest symptom of something amiss in your bowels, get tested -- because it might be pre-cancerous polyps. The best test is the one that actually gets done. But a colonoscopy is the only one that can remove the polyps. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I understand - you didn't solicit it or search Facebook for it, the screenshot was sent to you. But it didn't come as a direct message from the publicist? So it's not really a direct message from the publicist, or Saffron's PR, but as screenshot of someone looking through his Facebook page. You see how that can read as... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If they are "merely selling fusion food" then what's so hard about changing the name to "Saffron Fusion"? Something they just love about the ring of "colonial". Ok, then. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ahh just a bunch of future democrats at their finest. Carry on | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hooray Mr. Fish!!! Go for it!!! | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 |
Don't forget the loyal folks they provide to comment on the ADN website. Not sure if that's philanthropy or what... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
You might be an idiot. | 0.904762 | 0.02381 | 0.142857 | 0 | 0.880952 | 0 | 0 |
In the right hands yes. Excellent comment | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 |
Record of stupidity. The one common element in these punk shootings is that they are all extremely off the charts stupid. | 0.88 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 |
Yes, it's the latest thing, you inhale it. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
As has been pointed out before, if it's a choice of paying the oil industry to extract our oil or leaving it in the ground until prices come back up I'll go with leaving it in the ground as a future investment. Paying the industry to extract it? Crazy....
It's that old Alaska joke: "We gotta get that oil out of the gr... | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
I think that's a bit of a stretch. An isolated incident does not constitute a pattern. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Our legislative members should use an expense account just like regular employees in private businesses.... then we will be able to judge who is fiscally responsible. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I kept getting into trouble for telling my wife that the kids are little monsters: no, she said, they are little Angels. In that case, I retorted, why don't you see a lot of them in Heaven?
I still remember that day in 1961 when my grandfather picked me up from 1st grade (the principal's office, no less). The principa... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nice post Motley. But don't you find it disgusting that The Party refuses to accept voters are fully Independent?
Independents share the commitment to honor the decisions of all individuals in the voting booth, but we do not share a common political platform or support a two party oligarchy. We support processes... | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
It is never too early to learn about health food! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Could be expelled? That should be a given. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I am extremely upset about the decision you made involving our Oregon wolves. When you first took office I had great hopes for our wildlife and their not only survival but growing numbers. Oregon is way behind as far as I am concerned when it comes to protecting both our wildlife and our domestic animals. The state... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
It was on his public Facebook page and a public post. I took my own screenshot of it too and verified it was him. That's how it works. Public is public. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Algebra in high school taught me how to conceptualize, think in the abstract, and solve problems. This is an important skill in the design and development of software, and certainly helped me be successful in my career. It may not be for everyone, it being introduced to it may change some peoples’ lives, as it did mi... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
It's part of my job to respond to comments. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
RG: ..."said, “pricing in a way that would be accessible financially for people who work downtown.” ie: no low income housing here. unless they consider pan handling a downtown job site... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I don't know, honestly: this seems like the perfect teachable moment. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Actually I'm enjoying the show too. And it's playing out, mostly, in full view. But Kevin's not wrong. If they somehow invent enough rules to cheat Trump out of the nomination, his loyal supporters are going to be at the doors of the RNC with torches and pitchforks.
Pop me up another batch! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Looks like 'somebody' is trying to pick winners and losers. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
so now, herbicides are safe to use and no longer toxic? yeah, the people living along those county roads might feel like spraying isn't the best idea. plus who does the work? are they paid employees? is someone going to be out of a job?
selective spraying can become less selective pretty fast. no on herbicides be... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you Good Tim. My contextual awareness was lacking. I now read the argument clearly and agree with your statement. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The FB post shows how disingenuous the owners are -- nicely packaging up sentiment about "let's sit down and talk over cookies" but then being proud about tossing insults at people who are raising a legitimate concern about offensive/racist name and theme for their business. You don't see that it's offensive? Hmmm. At ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Old, Again I said "states". Counties are not states. The tenth amendment does not mention counties. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slandering it? You're off your rocker. This isn't going to hurt 'midtown' one bit. And Kriners is midtown. MIDTOWN <--- | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Sounds like stupid lunch time talk got taken way too seriously but who knows. | 0.657895 | 0.013158 | 0.118421 | 0.013158 | 0.605263 | 0 | 0 |
the 18 yr old young lady who was attacked and wished her attacker be tried as a juvenile to keep him out of a system that hardens one like metal being pounded with a hammer - insightful...very insightful, compassionate and not vengeful. what a nice change to most stories about someone wanting to hurt, or have hurt, o... | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 |
No matter which side of the isle you are on, it's not going to end well for any of us. The country we grew up in is already lost. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lunch time seaweed?! Are we sure the school wasn't trying to kill all the students? 😄 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 |
I know right has does this have anything to do with Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I know it's a serious thing but that was my first thought too lol. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Let Governor Bill Walker and the Alaska State Senate know that Alaskan students need the Alaska Performance Scholarship to further their education and achieve their goals by signing and sharing this petition. https://www.change.org/p/bill-walker-keep-the-alaska-performance-scholarship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"I think you'd have riots," Trump told CNN on Wednesday. "I think you'd have riots. I'm representing a tremendous many, many millions of people."
I suppose that sums up his stance. "I got more guns." | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This is THE dumbest comment system. Anything deemed slightly offensive gets deleted?? Keep the bigoted comments so people can really see the mentality of the people pushing these amendments and their irrational logic of why they believe that discrimination is some how a religious right. | 0.616667 | 0 | 0.033333 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.016667 | 0 |
Shocking to say the least, but then what do you expect when over a hundred different languages are being spoken in our school system. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Well,with any luck,Chenault and Myers maybe Panhandling on a street corner after the election | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Is that your standard comment? Perhaps a bit more education would help? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I saw a video with some rabbi saying "don't call your child an angel, they know they are not" instead when they do something good, acknowledge it, encourage it. He also said something like tell them you love them when they aren't being good or bad, if you tell them you love them only when they do good then they will n... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Hmm ...if they were living in the same apartment, by definition (and the law), what happened was domestic violence. You do not have to be involved with with another romantically, or a family member or related in any way for the DV statute to kick in. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I have to imagine my grandfather felt the same way in the 80's, but we didn't have the Internet then to hear their complaints. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The protestors Facebook page comments are more or less the same: publicly: "here's an open letter, let's have a dialogue, while behind the scenes on Facebook: "fuck these guys, let's shut em down."
But calling attention to that would be fanning the flames - it's pretty disingenuous all around. Let's admit, no one REAL... | 0.4 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Most of Trumps supporters are not fans of the GOP. We come from Independent backgrounds and also from the Democratic party or are just feed up with the non actions of both parties only working to serve their big donors who have their foot on their throats. Read the book by Martin Gross called the "Washington Zoo! Go... | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you both! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pretty good humor alright....butter? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If it doesn't pencil, it doesn't pencil. Why would taxpayers - those of us who struggle to pay our own housing needs - have to subsidize the enrichment of a developer? MUPTE ensures that the rich get richer and the rest of us continue to struggle...... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
While I agree with you regarding "the Party", (plural), the folks at Pew have always seemed to try and avoid that sort of blatant bias.
They are clearly much more liberal in some of their goals than I will ever be, but their polling in particular has usually been fairly straight up.
Of course, I figure anymore th... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 |
Yep. Illegal. Very much illegal. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First graders think that to kill someone, simply means that they won't see that person ever again. Or that they are "Sending them to be with Jesus". Their greatest worry for "killing" anyone, would be that they may get on Santa's "bad" list. In their childish world view, they have not yet grasped what death really i... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 |
Sounds like this Galena school is a boarding school. But wait, aren't boarding schools evil? Looks/sounds like these students are having a very positive experience at this "evil" boarding schools. Maybe its time for more boarding schools in Alaska. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
So...while colonialism is truly one of the worst things on the planet for its continued effects, and what's preceded us...
How's the food at this place? I mean British colonial era food is practically the best food to ever come out of that country. The Brits it seemed didn't know how to cook prior to their plantatio... | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
You presented a nicely laid-out critique! Thank you! A comment or two?
* An income tax collects from ANYONE claiming federally taxable income earned in Alaska - "Outside" consultants included
* A flat rate tax is the direction lobbyist-ruled, campaign-donation-fed Congress has been moving toward since Reagan; but th... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
LOL. You should live in Iowa in a primary year. The telephone polls are at first funny, then stupid, and finally irritating (some of us got to irratated bit quicker). You find these polls everywhere, in mail, on your car...... Most people, (I hope), take about 5 secs to see the bias and give it a toss. *It... | 0.5 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
If you don't know her, it's probably not wise to judge her. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 |
Did Mr Bulski get MUPTE for the Granite Apartments at 8th & Washington? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Federal Regulation of Marijuana as a Drug was resolved.
" Gonzales v. Raich 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, the United States Congress may criminalize the production and use of home-grown cannabis even where ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The legislature demanding accountability and operating efficiency from the administration need only look at their own operation and do the same. In addition, I would strongly recommend that SB 21 be repealed and get new revenue by imposing an annual $1 Billion ad valorem tax on warehoused gas on the North Slope retroac... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I'm going to go try their food, that's the best solution to this dilemma. Evaluate a place based on their cuisine, not the lack of self-awareness of the protesters who are following it. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First of all I didn't say anything about rent being cheaper. I said it should be based on some criteria, as in square footage, location, amenities, working plumbing, etc, not on a landlord's whim. I'm not sure where you get the 20k to 50k in addition per unit unless you are buying into some contractor's hype. If ther... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wait until next year? Surely not ... those who are losing their jobs cannot wait until next year to pay their bills. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Where is the Save Louie's group when you need them? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If you have a question about the intelligence level of the average voter, just remember all the successful money scams which go on constantly and successfully.
Some guy with a Mumbai/Russian/Nigerian/Croatian accent calls on the phone threatening to have a person put in jail for missing jury duty, traffic tickets, o... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 |
I always thought us lunatics kept to the online comments. | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0 |
Ha, ha. Oh, you forgot to be funny or factual. Priests molested boys, they didn't go into women's public restrooms. At least get your smears correct - not that facts matter to liberals. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
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