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ricknro says (in part) " wants to obliterate what few campaign finance laws we have and open up state elections to unlimited, anonymous outside money". If that's the case, then why couldn't illegal aliens, socialists, Islamic extremists and flat earthers influence Alaska politics. Among others. So much for a wall ...
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Really good commentary. Thank you
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What would it take to match the free TV for the left from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, et. al.? Organized labor has about 7% of the private sector workforce. They have most of the public sector workforce in over half the states, and most significantly, most of the largest states. Organized labor, especially teacher...
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The blog on the site Retirement And Good Living has several pages and guest posts on phasing into retirement and the stages of retirement. The site provides information on many retirement topics including planning, finances, retirement locations, health, volunteering and more.
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Just in time for Marijuana Maintenance.. a shot in the arm for growers.
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By Don Youngs own account " I represent those that voted for me". So he doesn't represent all of us.
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Mark- good point. Bernie Sanders seems to be doing pretty well from many small donations. While we're at it, we should also put a time limit on campaigns, lowering the annoyance factor to every American. It would probably improve American health and well-being too.
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“He’s got a great head” on him, Young said, crediting Kasich, former chairman of the House Budget Committee, with a the balanced budgets that came during his last few years in Congress. “He’s been a great governor, a good soul, a family man,” Young said. “Everything going for him.” Then I wish he was our rep instead o...
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Arguing that companies don't charge differently in the states in which they do business isn't honest. There are websites dedicated to tracking the cost of fuel, as an example, on a state by state basis. This tax can be handled as simply as "shipping and handling" fees when products are sold into Oregon and will ultim...
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Funny all the left nut, party of 'free stuff' posters below can't seem produce a viable candidate to challenge Sen. Young... Your frustration shows... Thank you for your excellent service to Alaska Don.
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Yes money can and does buy votes as well as influence and special favors. Nothing new there. Career politicians have practiced this since before FDR, but it really became effective after they realised that providing 'free' assistance to certain demographics translated directly to reelection. Campaign 'donations' of a...
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Did you ever stop to think Art? Did you ever stop to think that all those union member, those teachers, those non-profit groups, are all Americans trying to make this country better for all? Soros contributes money to causes which improve conditions for Americans. Did you ever stop to think Art? Did you ever stop t...
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Kyle. Like you, right wing nut, they are to stupid to see their own trail of destruction behind. Much less have clue of tomorrow.
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How many tens of actual teaching positions might be funded by the layoff of a single "administrative" sinecure?
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Will the tail survive or will the dog? And which is which anyway! If this comes down will we be flying Virgin Alaska? Or, mayhap, the more descriptive: "Seattle Virgin" - (tho an oxymoron one might think....)?
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Seems to me this story is important enough that it should have been up in the "Alaska News" section...not hidden down the scroll in "Iditarod". Think about it... Arnold Demoski was arrested and taken to jail in handcuffs. Every local along the middle Yukon river must have known about his dangerous assault on King an...
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Shannyn, stories like this are the problem. Designed to promulgate emotional knee jerk reactions based on "interpretation" that just don't tell the story with all the facts. And it obviously works given most of the other comments posted. I heard Trump say crime should be punished. Chris Matthews was baiting the AB issu...
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She's 12. Who cares if some 12 year olds are big? How much do you care about other people's struggles? How much do you understand about a 12 year old's brain and development, and capacity for judgement?
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Art Chance, I have read your complaining about how unfair labor unions are in how they negotiate several times since you retired. I will tell you I was on the negotiating team through at least 3 Anchorage Mayors and if you think that we did such a great job (obviously you do or you wouldn't complain so much) maybe th...
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To be clear, there are quite a few others who spread money around the legislature. Perhaps they do so for ideological reasons, perhaps for others. Makes one curious, doesn't it? But it's not illegal. When the legislators who have received donations are the ones making the decision to buy a donor's $35M building, it'...
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Why would you no longer need to dredge when port is finished? Doesn't silt continue to come in on tide fluctuations? Sounds like $290 million dollars of BS. Let cargo companies help pay for it and upkeep. They make billions on shipping cargo here and we pay for all upkeep on docks? Stupid. Their ships. Their repairs a...
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This made me laugh. Orwell's "1984" is a fiction, and it passed a quarter of a century ago without any of that happening. Why? Because it's fiction.
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I guess someone got their feeling hurt by my comment that was deleted on this thread. Kasich is a loser who told seniors who are going to lose their benefits to, "get over it". Must be his fifteen minutes to drive the clown car.
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Looks like many of you are using the same old tired Republican Party talking points on taxes. - Blame the unions...check - Say it will cost jobs...check - Shift the tax burden to residents and away from businesses...check - Say it will hurt the poor (as if caring about the poor ever mattered to the Republican Party)......
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Ahh, beautiful Cook Inlet. We barely knew thee.
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The solution would be to only allow monetary contributions (including"purchased speech" messages of advocacy) to candidates and incumbents to come only from individual registered voters who that candidate or incumbent is constitutionally authorized to represent in either a state of federal elected office. For exampl...
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Hopefully programs of this nature will take root. Lots of people are out there dealing with issues caused by abusive parenting situations. Many of them become parents and continue the same negative practices as they were subject. Parenting is a tough job requiring a great deal of patience and understanding on how to c...
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I remain to be convinced that a lot of this isn't "The Washington Monument Strategy" on the Administration's part; they want budget cuts, we'll give them to them - good and hard. That said, DPS runs almost entirely on the General Fund and when times are hard, they're harder in the GF agencies; I know, I started work ...
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Say goodbye to Aromatherapy because you couldn't use ANY plants in public or in a business if this passes. How can we be free to consume plants in responsible ways?
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No Bob, you are wrong. You have been misguided by political rhetoric and really need to do some research and talk to your enemies who work in the oil industry. Fracking has been done long before Parnell.
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I feel like this ended too soon, Charles! It doesn't instill any more faith I have in the system than I do now. I'm holding out like that last blade of green grass in a massive lawn of disappointments in American governance. Bernie Sanders is that tiny glance of green before smoldering ruins cloud my remaining vision o...
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Extensive history of violence???
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Noscitur, Well if that is the case, the judges need to go back to "BAIL SETTING ONE" in law school. Because the judge that set the bail FLUNKED THAT COURSE.
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I hate to tell you this but there's been fracking on the Slope for decades.
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In the 1990's and early 2000's, fracking of wells was being done in Cook Inlet, on some of the platforms by Unocal. 10,000#'s of pressure, frack sand and chemicals pumped into the formation to increase production. It is not a 'new' process. Guess what? The inlet did not drain away. There has been no more earthquak...
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Self-interest is the driving force in human affairs, and it can be relied upon to be present in most circumstances, certainly mundane political decisions. However, good self-interest borders on bad self-interest, greed. The transition from one to the other is seamless and even logical when no constraints apply. Everyon...
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Trooper coverage of the Seward Hwy. and Girdwood has been a gift to the MOA by the State. It's all in the MOA and should be the MOAs responsibility - as much as I don't like my property tax bill. It's about the same distance to Girdwood or the Kenai Borough boundary as it is from Downtown Juneau to the end of the r...
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That's rich - Don Young, public school teacher & Congressman for life, chastising Bernie Sanders' socialist ways. Don has had his head so far in the public trough for so many years he hasn't seen reality in decades.
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How has Don lived off of oil money for 49 years? He federal representatives are paid by federal tax dollars. He held state office for only 5 years.
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Remember the Stephen King movie where they put a different member of a guy's family in a room with an electrified floor each time they caught him smoking?
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"What kind of twisted minds thought this up?" The public employee union. They are desperately trying to hang onto their pensions and they want a smaller group of "others" to pay for it.
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"What would it take to match the free TV for the left from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, et. al.? " False equivalency. What a joke.
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AK Air says air travel in Alaska is expensive because of operational costs yet they have $2B lying around to buy another airline.
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Life is funny. Heroin is apparently good at killing, but we seem unable to find drugs for capital punishment. Have heroin and be put in jail at public expense. Allow public sale of heroin (and in fact offer it free) and those who want can end their lives in bliss. We are so puzzled. We want to ban heroin at 1 o'cl...
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I'm reasonably confident that I've done more of that thinking stuff than you have, but I can't find out anything about you because you hide behind an alias. Scratch every leftist and you'll find a wannabe Comrade Strelnikov cruising the countryside in his armored train with his brigade of Cossacks trying to "make lif...
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It never occurred to me that diet could be a factor in democrat confusion. Do you suppose gluten is the culprit?
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Totally disgusting, is the example of what happened to the woman in Texas. Extremism, spawned from and supported by religious superstition, is alive and well in America. Especially in states like Texas.
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wonderful deflection/false equivalency there... This is why the discussion goes nowhere...youre interjection something that has nothing to do with this conversation....which tells me you have nothing of value to add...
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Another social welfare agency special interest group. Ms. Gallagher and her staff will spend endless hours finding problems so that her program can be better funded and grow. Special interest groups must find problems to sustain themselves. Does anyone think that woman are going to stop divorcing (2/3 of divorces in...
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It's no surprise to read that the Springfield Police Chief, with a straight face, tells us that this is about "traffic safety." While. obviously they can't admit it, supporters of the ban on transfering anything from a car to a pedestrian. know this is a disingenous statement. The law is simply an attempt to do an...
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Andi, please don't attempt to crawl inside my mind to create a stream of consciousness (logic) that is not there. It's about trust, Andi. Trusting someone with confidential information not intended to be made public. By violating Stokey's trust and publishing this article, do you believe there is a greater good? Wi...
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Take this all with a grain of salt as LCU and UAA have zero common opponents. I think the number of wins vs ranked opponents is roughly the same, UAA might have one or two more, but I don't think LCU has played anyone ranked higher than 8/9 as opposed to UAA who beat Cal Baptist who was 5/6 at the time. Comparing D2 pr...
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There was an old song years ago by John Prine about money going into hole in daddys arm. This the analogy of any funds for people too ignorant to help. They made a choice knowing that choice would was wrong on so many levels. They chose to ruin their life with running heroin, meth and cocaine into their arms. What par...
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Between new state law and the district trying to pad its discipline numbers, we're going to see more of this.
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America needs to return before teaching China anything. They have lots of underground churches. They don't need our brand of religion!
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All in context, it is better understood in the phenomenal. The absurdity of the details, and the ridiculous amount of energy wasted in analyzing the same frame of reference presented by such an actor as Trump, only serve best as evidence to the dysfunctional playground that allow certain mentalities to be taken seriou...
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and you don't include the histrionics of people running around shrieking that something is "murder" when scientifically, legally and ethically is it not....or the abject stupidity of those who want to reduce the occurrence of abortion trashing an organization that does more to reduce the occurrence than all the praying...
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Your position appears to be that ceasing to give companies money equates to an increase in taxes. How one can use logic to arrive at this conclusion is beyond me. These companies will pay zero in taxes when they lose money, they just won't be given money for failing.
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Meanwhile, Buckman Elementary is five blocks away...
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Yep, look at all the earthquakes happening in Oklahoma that have been attributed to "fracking".
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You can find the information that they are taking 7% if you look for it, but they don't make it obvious.
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Dems have had the Whitehouse for 7 years now, it may have been Bush who took us into war in the mid-east, but Obama has had 7 years to get us out...and, in fact, took us into Libya and now Syria. Obama is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and therefore he now owns the referenced "export[ation of] war". When ...
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except they are not taking a life and that sort of hyperbole has no purpose other than to appeal to the emotional...I'm sorry..but your position is not supported by science, law or medicine....its your opinion and the wonderful thing about opinion is they need no factual basis...
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If it is doing business in this nation, it is benefitting from government revenues. Do you believe your business is an island unto itself? Wake up to the real world.
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I actually think the old pre-unification City of Anchorage pretty much gave away the farm to the trades and crafts, and the MOA just followed along. The early Tri-Trades Council contracts with the State were patterned on the Joint-Crafts Council contracts and the State has been trying for 30 years to get some of its ...
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Does this mean they finally took my suggestion to show the 7% up front, and what the net contribution to the charities is? It sure wasn't that way when I applied for my PFD. If you knew there was a fee and clicked a few links you could get there, but it wasn't where the average donor was likely to find it.
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Working for government is not socialism. Not matter what type of government you have you will still need employees paid for by government.
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Stock, that thing you get when you gamble with future income hoping they have invested wisely with your money?
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"When you think about it hope isn’t really a strategy that’s ever worked." Or been tried, outside of political speeches
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People with chronic pain cannot work, most of the time. Assistance in Alaska does not help put a roof over their heads or enough to eat. Folks must sell their pills to eat and/or keep a warm shelter. It's a vicious circle that goes on and an and on. That, is the elephant in the room.
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The troopers should consolidate. They also are out of control in the MatSu. There are numerous cases of the troopers overreacting to incidents at Hatcher Pass. One lady was given a citation for reckless driving for having skiers in the back of a pickup and had to get a lawyer. Another had his head stomped after a s...
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Liberals that want a Democrat to replace Don Young are VERY interested on who who will vote for simply so they can make it a campaign issue.
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I work with these people and it is clear that YOU do not 'get' nearly as much as you seem to think you do.
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The part of Trump's interview that got so many folks' dander up was when he said women getting abortions should be incarcerated, IF ABORTION WERE ILLEGAL. The only logical way abortion will become illegal in the USA if it is deemed murder. And murder is already a punishable offense so no more new law would be require...
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what is your solution? Add MORE liberal programs?
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Boretide, Trumped choked when asked a tough question by Chris Matthews. Once a choker, always a choker. He wasn't prepared. He thought he could just bluster his way through like he usually does. Instead, he choked on live TV, in front of millions of viewers. All of the networks ran with it. He who lives by free ...
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Art, I agree that we have been "gifted" a lot (like bond reimbursement) and that gift is about to turn into a serious obligation. So what do we do with all these areas of the state that refuse to form local taxing authorities to provide even the most basic of public services? Currently they have absolutely no motive...
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If contributions didn't work businessmen wouldn't make them. No business is in the business of throwing away money.
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Absolutely agree. The troopers in Mat Su are completely out of control. Ask any defense attorney. If Alaska Dispatch had an investigative reporter - send then to Mat Su to talk to defense attorneys about the Trooper culture. They need a house cleaning
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Welcome to Obama's world. Throw money at the people that make bad decisions. Especially if they don't pay income taxes. Yet take money from people that make "good" decisions. Maybe "working for a living" should be classified as a disease, and then we wouldn't get financially punished for working. And have to pay f...
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"execute the addicts"? That's a rather cowardly approach.
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The framers provided the transition mechanism to create these local taxing authorities. The problem is that the legislature refused to act and we now have this huge gap between the state and local regions when it comes to funding. Why not tax the PFD of every citizen in those unincorporated communities to help offset...
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Can you say Vic?
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Opiate withdrawal is not life threatening, not always true!! https://www.discoveryplace.info/why-heroin-withdrawals-are-deadly
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So if you will inevitably vote the way of your contributors, what does that say about public financing? Would a representative always vote for the government against the interests of his constituents? And what about the interests of the lawmakers currently in office? It's hard enough to get people outside of the system...
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KK, As always you cherry pick quotes from an article, and offer no context. Two can play this game: "Regulating abortion in the United States is like playing whack-a-mole. Every time a state tightens its laws, abortions rise somewhere else." http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/15248/index3.html
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Not all charities need the training offered, and a number of them maintain their own websites with donation links, and have sufficient paid and volunteer staff to process donations directly. PCG is a bigger boon to some than others, but as noted by another commenter, if it gets people to donate that otherwise wouldn't...
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Funny, that's not what I've observed. My interactions with Troopers in the MatSu, albeit limited, have been consistently positive. They have always been polite, respectful, and helpful.
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It goes without saying that your assessment of the Hwy. 99 project is enlightened.
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I really can't understand all of this UConn hate going around these last couple weeks. I like UConn, I admire the coach who has figured something out that so many other coaches (and leaders in so many other fields besides sports) would love to have. In every locker room pep talk before any high school, college and pro...
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With the longstanding throttle hold on the Ak Legislature - securely held by BigOIl - the only hope for honest government, along with preservation of the PermFund & the PFD as we've come to know it, is to break the grip of BigOil. (Oh, there's BigTourism, BigFishing, BigConstruction, BigUnions,etc. which should be deal...
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Democrats.
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Iditarod Committee, famous for world wide effort to include racers from other countries. Be a real Alaskan Committee by making it cheaper to feed kennels of 50 in the bush!
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I can't wait until Civil Comments gives us an Ignore feature.
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Paying the tenant $250 Is 50% cheaper then lowering the rent to $500
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From CNN last week- Fracking fallout: 7.9 million at risk of man-made earthquakes http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/29/investing/earthquakes-fracking-usgs-oil-gas/
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I love that this is the Sunday morning lead story. ADN you are amazing! <3 Alaska
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I'm looking forward to the 45 day post Iditarod "gag-period" to expire. Should be some insightful comments about this year's Iditarod, the ITC and Nulato forthcoming.
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Absolutely, but the money delivered by NEA and AFT pales in comparison to what comes from wealthy individuals. The part that makes them truly have some sway is they bring votes.....mostly "low money" votes by engaging members in common interests. Some people would even call that "democracy"! We'll never match their mo...
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"In recent head-to-head polls with one Democrat whom Mr. Trump may face in the fall, Hillary Clinton, he trails in every key state, including Florida and Ohio, despite her soaring unpopularity ratings with swing voters." "Mr. Trump is so negatively viewed, polls suggest, that he could turn otherwise safe Republican st...
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