Datasets:
google
/
civil_comments

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
 Community
8
text
stringlengths
1
1.91k
toxicity
float32
0
1
severe_toxicity
float32
0
1
obscene
float32
0
1
threat
float32
0
1
insult
float32
0
1
identity_attack
float32
0
1
sexual_explicit
float32
0
1
I am not speaking for myself. I pay for my own internet. I am speaking for others that I have witnessed use the public library internet and for a few who got screwed in a job, lost their medical benefits, etc. was a temporary life saver in many scenarios. Even our own bush newspaper journalist uses the public library h...
0.166667
0
0
0
0.166667
0
0
James, you know that "There just aren’t any other communities in that situation." is not true unless you take it in narrowest sense. Right here, right now there are times that people can't get from Nanwalek to Homer, for example, at certain times in case of emergency. You are spreading a dangerous fallacy.
0
0
0
0
0.166667
0
0
Yes city policies have been vicious, and will continue to be so until poor people use their inherent power and start making life more difficult for the middle class.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pony up for the Susitna Dam that will never be built. Pony up for KABATA that will never be built. Pony up another 500 million for Trans Canada for the pipe dream. Pony up 32 million for an office building. Pony up.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Wave maker, nothing, I don't know Lynn Gattis'. I am just a 59 year old private sector working stiff praying that I will be able to retire in the place I went to grade, middle and high school. But if you steal the homes of those who currently are living on fixed pensions with your "flexible" property tax to get votes...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Arlene, that is the elephant in the room question. My guess is no one until abuse registers then a whole bunch of arm flapping will insue.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
To fly into Cold Bay and on to King Cove is to view an incredible absurdity that gets more distorted as one gets farther away. Approaching Cold Bay you can't help but notice roads all over the tundra. You can rent a car and drive all over the refuge. Nobody ever seems to note this odd fact. The Cold Bay airport is like...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I've been critical in the past of Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake. However, I'm impressed to see he gets this issue: “I don’t think it’s the building that the public wants us to be in,” Neuman said.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Whoo, Donny's finally gone went down river!
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Thank you Ben Tobochs. But you forgot to mention all the smoozing, especially during lobbying periods, for those $500 dinners by legislation put on a credit card and paid for by Alaska state citizens.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
While we're at it, how about Chuck Bundrant paying for the most idiotic runway and harbor in Akutan?
0.692308
0.015385
0.107692
0
0.661538
0.015385
0
Since Jesus didn't mention homosexuality, I would guess he would focus on what mattered - the poor, the vulnerable, the outcast.
0.166667
0
0
0
0.166667
0.166667
0
"Instead she trolls around for someone to break the PC codebook and then rants about it." A typical republican knee jerk reaction from someone who can never find any fault in their candidate. It was a stupid thing for him to say. It makes him sound like some redneck hillbilly. Instead of admitting how dumb it was, you...
0.757576
0
0.090909
0
0.757576
0.015152
0
Wow, you must not live in Anchorage.... or you would be flaming about a sales tax option so your annual personal property tax was not helping to subsidize public works maintenence to roads etc, cause someone else, like tourists to this state, just might be eating a bit of your crumbs from the pie.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
It is a stupid comparison that has absolutely no relevance to anything- nothing even remotely relevant to Syria. I would like my senators to have some measure of intelligence whatever their political party is
0.64
0.026667
0.133333
0
0.533333
0.026667
0.013333
"The (Catholic) church has relics from all 18 of the 12 disciples." Mozart
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
wow, what a ripoff!! Just write a check to your charitable cause and bypass this unnecessary state bureaucracy
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Do some fundraising instead of using State general funds. get creative
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
HB 247 will hurt everyone in Alaska, the credits are working for lower energy cost for Alaskans!! " Energy costs in Anchorage fell by more than 10 percent in 2015, with gas prices alone dropping nearly 25 percent, according to the report."
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Who are they trying to kid? I was raised Catholic and I know they have strict rules for anybody they marry, the couple is required to attend classes, blah, blah, blah. If they can make a rule disallowing remarriage I'm sure they won't have a problem enforcing their opposite sex rule. Looks like the church is making an ...
0.2
0
0
0
0.1
0.1
0
Energy costs in Anchorage fell by more than 10 percent in 2015, with gas prices alone dropping nearly 25 percent, according to the report.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
This seems rather ironic in that in this past week the big story in Portland's pet advocacy world is that an animal shelter here rescued dogs all the way from a dog meat farm in Korea. Eating dogs is common in China, Korea, and Viet nam, as well as the Philippines. And over the years during the past three decades I can...
0.2
0
0
0
0
0
0
An income tax punishes productive people and gives the money to unproductive people. The "small" income tax would raise $100 Million - easy to find $100 Million to cut in the giant state bureaucracy. And we would create a new bureaucracy to take money from productive Alaskans and give it to those who don't have income...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
TIMURA--has his head in the sand---oil future is a dying fossil(?) dead already.......
0.166667
0
0
0
0.166667
0
0
Thank you, John Havelock. I agree.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
No income tax period. All use government services, all should pay. The sales tax taps everyone, no exceptions. Weary of the "I'm special" bail out.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
"The PFD is an essential support for the rural subsistence lifestyle." Not if you are using MY income to support an unsustainable lifestyle.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
For a lot of people, taking that money would mean needing more welfare. Lose-lose there, if you ask me. Some people who are working need that extra income boost just to make it here. If you take that away, you'll have more homeless families and more people on welfare. You're just causing the very thing you want to ...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Well, maybe you should consider moving to another state. They'll probably have income tax there, though.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Why not have someone that came from a smaller oil and gas company that understands how to make Alaska more productive? Why keep putting attorneys in these oil and gas agency positions, we need private industry people like Bruce Webb or David Hall, not attorneys and politicians that promote monopolies and big oil?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Shootist, there are some very complicated issues with internet out in the Aleutians that those seeking cuts library subsidies are not aware of unless they live here: 1. With the hope of fiber optics coming through this area, we were missed, which means that the internet services here are so slow no one down loads movie...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
No, not really.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
"Spindle was taken to the Anchorage jail and a magistrate judge set an initial bail of $20,000 and a third-party custodian." Whaaaat? I'd say "gimme a break" but letting this guy out for $20 thou - i.e. a $2000 cash/bail bond and a 3rd party custodian? Am I still on the same planet as the the judge setting this bail?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Every Alaskan will pay their fair share? I don't think so. An income tax would be more fair. A sales tax would be more fair. At least that way, people can keep working and actually pay something toward the government.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
by their own people to end the dog meat industry there. While it is completely possible that some immigrants ate dogs when coming here- in some isolated cases, however the tone of Stewart's comments paint this with a very wide brush and condescending- suggesting these people ate nothing but dogs out of their own ignora...
0.2
0
0.2
0
0.2
0
0
That is EXACTLY what will happen with an income tax. Wealth is mobile, retirees with investment income will move their residency to a no-income tax like Washington, and keep their "2nd home" here and avoid the state income tax. Why should I pay income tax to support a village lifestyle of others? Why should I move ...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I'm all for paying a flat percentage. I don't make a ton of money, but I do make some. Messing with the PFD will kill the ability of too many others to continue working and living.
0.1
0
0
0.2
0
0
0
I wasn't here that long before the pipeline, but I'd rather pay an income tax and a sales tax than have the government mess with the PFD. (y)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
"the taxpayer would still get a minimum $400 yield as a result of its deductibility on the federal return." Only those who itemize deductions will get anything "back", most people use the standard deduction and would get NOTHING back
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Meanwhile, in other news, $7 billion dollars worth of our oil will be removed this year, tax free- thanks to Tammie Wilson, Pete Kelly, John Coghill, Steve Thompson, and Click Bishop. Worse, in addition to the free oil, Alaska will pay out $700 million in corporate welfare to Big Oil. These are the morons from the ...
0.3
0.1
0
0
0.3
0
0
That's smart! I didn't realize that they took such a large portion. Actually I never realized that they took any. Does the state website advertise this fact?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
The Russian heirloom varieties are the most popular in the interior, with the Black Krim being the all time favorite. Other favorites of mine include the brave general, black icicle, purple Russian, malikhitovaya shkitulka, and one other that's not a Russian, the large barred boar. I start them indoors but use Alaska f...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
UNBELIEVABLE. Now-disgraced Commissioner Haney and the Alaska Board of Education flushed 25 MILLION dollars down the drain on this exam, expressly against the advice of us Alaskans, in order to further the Obama agenda of Common Core socialization. This exam has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster in every way, ...
0.3
0
0
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Only working people will pay the income tax. Period. Why should those that want to or need to work be penalized by taking more money (subsistence) from them. The State ask for Alaskan's to start to tightening our belts yet the State is still spending money for their fruitless adventures. Government is good at one thin...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
https://www.glad.org/uploads/docs/publications/cu-vs-marriage.pdf I don't know if this is a reliable source, but does discuss some of my ideas about civil union.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
As does Islam genius. Oh and subjugation of women, and the KILLING of non-Muslims. So your point is slag. Could me and my transgender bf get married in a mosque? Get a grip.
0.7125
0.05
0.0625
0.15
0.5625
0.6375
0.0375
How about the cite for when the State obligated itself to pay 1/3 into TRS on behalf of SDs. Don't think you can provide one.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I'm going to try again to reply to this since my reply seems to have been "lost" in the "peer review" process, not that I view many here as my peers. The State NEVER negotiated retirement benefits as a part of labor agreements other than very early contracts with maritime unions. I had some part in negotiating every...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Why did you move to Alaska if you can't handle the relationship with the Natives? If you don't want your wealth redistributed, let's talk about ACA ....
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Easy to see where this "peer review" stuff is going here; when your "peers" are all lefties, you're going to be thrown off the island pretty quickly. But then, that was the whole idea, I suspect.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I was wondering the same thing. How exactly is Rural Alaska breaking the backs of urban dwellers? What exactly is coming out of their pockets? Oh and I wonder how much $$$ is poured into the urban economies by visiting Rural Alaskans.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
What kind of place do you live where you must lock your door?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
NOT WRONG! As late as the early '90s, PERS/TRS was thought to be over-funded and the great fear in the Executive Branch was that the Legislature would try to tap retirement funds for the Operating Budget. I suppose that the Hickel Administration could be assessed some blame because of their indolence in the last co...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
UAF has 2995 administrative staff and 688 academic staff . according to the UAF wiki page. Can anyone explain why there are more than 3 times administrators than teachers at this school?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I attended and thought it a very well run and informative forum. It forced the candidates to think on their feet and to respond to questions that tested them, and to keep to a strict time limit on answers. Democracy works only when we can have very qualified candidates be willing to face the hassle of the election pro...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I live in the Copper Valley and have a great many bats living behind the shutters and eaves on my house. They completely wipe out the mosquito population around my property and believe me, that is one huge amount of mosquitoes. As for winter, they spend it in the ceiling of my house. Maybe they are asleep but they knoc...
0.166667
0
0.166667
0
0
0
0
Cutting the bloated budget is also fair and simple. It just takes fair and honest people to do it.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
The fact that this is even a issue, shows just how far we have fallen.
0.2
0
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
I have long held a theory that perhaps vikings once visited Alaska. If one reads the journal of Leif Ericsson it mentions the following: A large lake (ancient Lake Ahtna, which was larger than Lake Michigan?) an island with big bears (Kodiak?) a large river with a great many fish (Copper River?) anthracite coal (Kata...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Special Questions, from a U.S. Senate Committee, on Murkowski Road, Bridge, and Pork, fried pork, roast pork, boiled pork, and even paved pork. Barbecued Pork Murkowski Style. 3. Did the senator think the proximity of property she owned near the project might raise questions? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/spe...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I love it when religious people practice hate and discrimination.
0.2
0
0
0
0.1
0.1
0
That number is exaggerated because it includes 1000+ student employees, including graduate assistants and 400+ temp staff. Teaching is also just one part of the activities staff support. There's also research and all the associated facilities, etc.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Lets all remember to have love and compassion for this young man. He just needs a few breaks. Its obviously societys fault.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Low oil prices does not affect the oil industry, because the Chief Executive Officer of BP, Bob Dudley, give himself a pay package of $20 million and the CEO of Tesoro, Gregory Goff, received $23 million in salary in 2015.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Personally, I would link a guaranteed jobs program to a new national lottery that has the proceeds going to homeless shelters and care for the poor. Wouldn't cost much, but would offer much. Of course, if I were boss, I would also link all politicians' pay and benefits to the life of the very poor. If there is no home...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I just love taxes. High high high taxes. More taxes, new taxes, make them all high taxes. Can i forfeit my pfd please? I think somebody else should have it cuz they are in a village. Where can i get on a list to give it away? Spread more love n stuff through more taxes.be nice to people n give em your money is my mo...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
You left out the impact of the litter that gets dumped in what used to be our beautiful public parks. There is a pile of trash that has been sitting in Duniway Park for a year. Walk along beautiful Terwilliger and gaze down from the Mt. Hood view. You will see a trash pile and decomposing mattress at the bottom of...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Probably because the online app is set up to confuse people. It could very well be that most of those apps are held up in cyberspace.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
"The PFD is an ESSENTIAL support for the rural subsistence lifestyle?" How was a subsistence life style carried out oh let's say 50 years ago (pre-dividend)? I'm sure it didn't involve new "snowgos", rifles, boats, etc. The PFD is just one of the many financial program's that has helped support the unsustainable "su...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
How much staff is being cut in Anchorage and in South East?? Do not be surprised if this is another push to shift the bulk and focus of the university south. The state legislature has been less supportive of UAF since the 90's (if not earlier), while UAA has charmed them. UAF's day in the sun was the 60's, and it's ...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
"Indian-themed mascots"? Indian? People from Delhi or Mumbal?
0.2
0
0
0
0.2
0.2
0
When I first heard this report I thought I must have been mistaken that it was first graders who were plotting to poison one of their classmates. Do these young children not understand reality versus fiction?
0.2
0
0
0.2
0
0
0
You're right we should cut our welfare programs while we're at it too!!
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I have no problem with natives, my wife taught in a village. Alaska natives are beautiful people. The problem I have is supporting an unsustainable lifestyle with my money
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
The location can be googled in less time than it takes to get a comment tentatively approved on Civil.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
With a fro like that he's probably pulling birds out on a daily.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
and another cut and paste from the local liberal bigot good old boy club. Does polly want a cracker? The clones are going to be repeating this drivel until the election as not one of these brainless liberals can manage to be original. Vinis assures one thing, she will walk in goosestep to the liberal bigot good old boy...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
The last time oil prices were $40 was 2005, when the state budget was $3.5 billion including capital. When the state reduces the budget to that level, then come talk to me about taxes
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
There is no income tax or sales tax large enough to fill the void. Income tax would need to be 100% as would sales to fill the void. PFD earnings is the only fund big enough to make a difference. I would rather cut the budget than do that, but that is the simple math. Your PFD is going to go to fund state employees...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
You might consider this pdf map - https://springfieldmillrace.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mill-race-internet-image_large.pdf
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
'A home for the fleas, a hive for the (buzzin) bees, a nest for birds, there ain't no words for the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of [his] hair.'
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Get those out of state workers...and WE ALASKANS pay an income tax? Taxing 10,000 slope workers at the net proposed income tax of 1.5% making 100,000 a year nets the state $15 Million. Creating a new income tax state bureaucracy with 100 state workers making $100K a year costs $10 Million. This makes no sense, and t...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Vote Yes on 8! Anyone think that Jane Angvik is really worried about taxpayers getting "rebates"? Me neither. The Tax Cap has worked pretty well and allowed our city to prosper for 33 years while also limiting the excessive growth of government. In October the Assembly created a loophole in the Tax Cap that guts th...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
OK, I am here. I look forward to people being nicer, and a little pressure on me to be nicer too.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Thanks for the link, Ranger Granger. Good to know our Congressional delegation so thoroughly vetted a request for federal funding and that the project was supported so strongly by local residents, local and state government, and a federal Refuge manager. As for the term "pork" it's good to know the Congressional dele...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Off the top of my head, I cannot recall violence of this sort. In my mind, homeless people are scary but nonviolent.
0.2
0
0
0.1
0.2
0.1
0
Yes, well done, and perhaps as important as anything Ms. Bell has said, Alaskans produce less of what we consume than is the case of any other state. So a sales tax hurts our economy less that it would anywhere else whereas an income tax, for other reasons, hurts us more than in any other state.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Gerald, before we allow them to tax anything, they need to first pull the budget down to where it is more inline with the national average of what state governments spends per person. The national average for state government is about $5400/person, we spend upwards of $13,000/person in Alaska. I have to step back and a...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
At one time establishments could refuse service based on the color of your skin. So you feel we should go back to that time?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Why have Sen. Lisa gotten so interested now. We don't usually hear much until time for her and Young's election. Really large runway? Cannery? Due to misinformation our representatives hand out occasionally I am curious as to how much money is involved as donations to her war chest, what donors "outside vs Native Corp"...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Even if so, just change the law. The government needs to get out of the religion business.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Springtime Rocks ~ !
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
More than likely a reefer addict. This isn't unfamiliar territory for those tortured souls slaves to 'Mary Jane'. Mary Jane of course being marijuana.
0.4
0
0.1
0
0.3
0
0
Yes, I actually did read about the "appropriately purchased Murkowski property" your discussing. "Honor is a plant of such slow growth that once it has been killed to the root new seeds must be sow & time allowed for their developement. They will thrive to the worst as their bed is tainted." Thomas Jefferson(R) "Wo...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Also sounds familiar to Papa Frank pushing a bridge to island across from Ketchican for easier airport access. Bridge to property gold mine and land to sell owned by Sen. Lisa's family. What Alaska and national taxpayers to pay for access to privately owned land? For whom to profit. No such thing as altruism in politic...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Then why comment Wyatt? Just to hear your own half-baked ideas?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Using PFD earnings is the only revenue stream that comes even close to filling the gap. A seasonal sales tax is a good idea. As for an income tax to "get" out of state workers: Get those out of state workers…and WE ALASKANS pay an income tax? Taxing 10,000 slope workers at the net proposed income tax of 1.5% making ...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Because we need a legal mind to instand all the carefully worded inserts that have been used to steal tax credits. Juneau Republicans can not read. Except spot dotted line to sign! Everyone else will be like Randy "veco" Ruedrich! We have many in party still.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Kc Jackson, maybe you're new to Alaska. Murkowski hasn't just gotten interested now. She's been fighting for the people of King Cove to have a safe evacuation route for years, and not just the years she's been up for reelection.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
You can't deduct your PFD unless you are "rich" and itemize deductions. Most people use the standard deduction Get those out of state workers…and WE ALASKANS pay an income tax? Taxing 10,000 slope workers at the net proposed income tax of 1.5% making 100,000 a year nets the state $15 Million. Creating a new income tax...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0