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Rasmusson has zero credibility. Its board is comprised of people that supported the giveaway of our oil through SB-21. Rasmuson refuses to be honest in the way it surveys Alaskans. It never tells Alaskans in their "surveys" that we are paying almost one billion in corporate welfare to Big Oil every year- or that $7...
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One approach is not going to solve our fiscal dilemma! 4 Billion dollars is not going to be resolved by an income tax, a sales tax, tapping the PFD reserve , or through budget cuts alone! Truthfully the only fair way to approach this issue is through a combination of the available options! I find it ironic that the ...
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I'm for limiting the amount of governmental handouts to individuals i.e. welfare, medicaid etc. and I'm for the limiting of governmental handouts to corporations. The government is not to subsidize people or corporations. Don't be a hypocrite and bash one but not the other......
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Just think about how low health care costs in the nation would be if we were all as fit as she is???? Keep rock'n it!
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Yes, ms.amylou, my property taxes take so much out of my income that I fear that I will have to leave the state when I retire because I can't afford more taxes. Property Values in Anchorage are inflated for the tax benefits it brings to the City Bureaucracy.
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Funding the current Legislative agenda is NOT funding the needs of the state, it is propping up a declining industry. When you ask the residents to put " skin in the game ", what do you tell the person that can no longer drink the water from his well due to sulfolane contamination, and has watched his,or her, home valu...
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Except, Tim, this is an article on politics. I have gotten along with most neighbors and my co-workers even when we didn't see eye to eye on things. When people post what they believe to be 'facts' and they really aren't 'facts', I have a problem with that. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their ow...
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Is it not the greatest thing that 7 to 10 people on a city Council can stop the will of hundreds of thousands of Alaskans that voted yes! We do not live in a democracy, we do not live in a Republic. We as American citizens live in tyranny!!! We live in a oligarcy....... Do any of you reading this even know what tha...
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We already do, its our skin you waste now - what do you think the government owns - it sure does not give us breaks on a regular basis to provide for our family as it does to itself. When will establishment policies take a hit like the people of this state have.
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"“Now who do I blame?” he asked, pointing to the audience. “The people. A bunch of idiots following Pied Piper over the edge of the cliff. That's who I blame. They ought to know better than that." Odd, I feel exactly the same way about you in your office.
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I would urge all Alaskans not to cave in to accepting any taxes or raids on the Permanent Fund. The administration and legislature have not yet demonstrated sufficient responsible budget cuts, have not cut all pie in the sky mega projects, and have not moved on repealing SB 21 or revising our oil and tax tax regime to ...
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The North Slope Borough has always been a cesspool of corruption.
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When you are as rich as Ed Rasmuson is, you can afford to be Philanthropic with other people's Dividends and Taxes, but the rest of us are a few hundred million shy of your net worth Ed, so Dividends and Taxes have a meaningful impact on our lives!
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This deal still does not pass the smell test.
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I think the only fair solution is an across the board cut, to all services and expenditures, an across the board tax, to all individuals/businesses, an across the board usage of the perm fund earnings and an across the board look at oil tax incentives. There shall be no golden calves, be it education, healthcare, th...
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Many Alaskans don't fully understand how a state income tax would function. Non-residents earning income in Alaska will pay the tax. ManyAlaska businesses are organized as limited liability companies taxed as partnerships - paying no corporate income tax to Alaska because the profit is personal income. With an Alas...
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Many Alaskans don't fully understand how a state income tax would function. Non-residents earning income in Alaska will pay the tax. ManyAlaska businesses are organized as limited liability companies taxed as partnerships - paying no corporate income tax to Alaska because the profit is personal income. With an Alas...
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I often wonder, if instead of issuing massive bonds, we just phase in spending over time. A school roof one year... another school roof the next year.. etc. etc. etc.
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Even better!
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The true test of this legislation is: Does this new proposed law provide Alaska maximum benefits for the development of our oil and gas resources as mandated in our state's constitution?
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Sorry about the duplication!
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Living at the Club Apts for many years I had an issue with people moving and not taking their cats with them. At one point I was feeding at least seven cats a day, for months on end, years too. The past three years I haven't had to feed a stray/feral cat. I sincerely hope that more people are educated by now and can fa...
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Gerrymandering has consequences. We gotta make our redistricting more accessible to the public and not in the hands of those currently driving us into the ditch.
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Just say no! No to any taxes or raid on the Permanent Fund until the administration and legislature until they can convince the public they have made every cut necessary to eliminate waste, duplication of effort, wasting money on pie in the sky mega projects like gas line, killing the current LIO efforts, repealing SB ...
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Really, tell us then, why so many went to Federal Prison? I believe a Baranof Legislative Room #604, was not a Legislature's Building, at the Baranof Hotel. There's no legislative immunity, when you cannot read you own legislation. Did you also miss 8th grade, like that Alaska Judge recently explained, on the Legislat...
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10X Bruce Hess. Well said.
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And an income tax would take from working Alaskans' for their subsistence.
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Are you trying to get his secretary fired?
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It is so much fun to watch the conservative establishment struggle to find another way to stop Trump. A quick skim of Goldberg's columns going back to January shows the shock and amazement that no one has been able to stop Trump. This is the 'let's cut back to Trump and Cruz so we can ensure a brokered convention' ta...
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Donald speech and Don speech are really very similar except Don is usually lamblasting Alaskans.
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This show from the Valley Girl will be a cross between Jerry Springer and Jerry Prevo.
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Legislative gridlock??? That would NEVER happen in Alaska. Right?
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Ut-oh, looks like the powers gonna have a harder time putting their heads in their behinds. Or perhaps more accurately, pulling them out.
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Rasmuson.....Shut up with your one sided tactics...............
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I don't know, I think it's kind of fun. :) Different for Anchorage, anyway.
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People are becoming "increasingly concerned" because we see the legislature doing nothing to reduce spending, eliminate oil credits and correct the imbalance in oil and commercial fishing taxes. This poll was intended to do one thing, scare people into agreeing with an income tax and pillaging the permanent fund. ...
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Say what?
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If a primary and general election were not already on this year's calendar, a total recall of the Alaska (Republican) legislators who supported and passed SB21 would be in order. They should thank God they don't live in China, where they would be sent to toil in the farm fields, or hang by their feet in the public cen...
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Many will be unemployed and the state will suffer under HB 247 Look at the Cook Inlet oil companies today, two drillers have gone bankrupt and APACHE the largest oil and gas lease owner in the basin left the state last month!! What do you think will happen if HB 247 is made law? Alaska will go broke for a long time...
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Excellent post, Peter.
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I've had skin in the federal game since I filed my first income tax return some 48 years ago. I don't recall that my paying federal income taxes ever had even a minuscule impact on Congress' tax and spend program. If it did, the country wouldn't be looking at a $20 Trillion debt.
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Exactly right!
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So what? He's right. He keeps getting reelected no matter what he does anyway. I'm not a Don Young fan, but he's right that we get the government we deserve. This is (unfortunately) very true in Alaska as well, as exemplified by the struggle of our current leadership to face reality, do the right thing, and balance...
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In England, Premier League footballers earn $3.2 million a year each on average. Players in Germany's top division earn $2.07 million a year on average.
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The Last Patriot poll states that over 75 % of ADN commenters disapprove of an income tax. Any group can do a poll and fudge the numbers and target a specific or class of people. Add in the fact that they offered no real proof other than there little graph and say so. I call B( ).
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Many will be unemployed and the state will suffer under HB 247 Look at the Cook Inlet oil companies today, two drillers have gone bankrupt and APACHE the largest oil and gas lease owner in the basin left the state last month!! What do you think will happen if HB 247 is made law? Alaska will go broke for a long time...
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Hopefully they can talk Hoffman out of this opt out for the unorganized borough. I have started my public notice and are in the process of accumulating enough signatures to have a small grow. It is a long process for us in the unorganized borough to get a marijuana license, just like it is for a liquor license. Let...
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A very intelligent young man. We're fortunate to have him in Anchorage.
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As an Alaskan I'm fully behind an income tax, You are wrong.
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So proud of the good people of the NSB who did the tough thing and took their government back from a corrupt, unethical leader. But the house is not completely clean yet, more sweeping to do. Carry on good people!
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When asked, you have to remember to say "It's a personnel matter, so I can't say any more."
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PC and fish take precedence over carbon emission reduction.
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What is this bill number and who are the sponsors? How do I actually find the details of this? What a change to Cook Inlet oil! I hope our leaders truly understand what changes when you change the base taxation system.
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Pay what the building is worth or move. 20 million period. Blackmailing the people of Alaska is never a good idea.
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Agree with Comment from Senator Bill Wielechowski: "According to Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, 185,582,715 barrels of oil went down the pipeline in 2015. That’s right. Almost 200 million barrels. Yet our own Department of Revenue forecasts that tax loopholes mean we will receive zero oil production tax revenue from...
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We, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA, voted to legalize marijuana. Now our ignorant, corrupt legislature wants to override our vote. How long do we have to suffer these fools?
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What is wrong with the legislature!? They have a budget issue to address and they are wasting their time holding up a new industry that will contribute to the tax base. My head is going to explode!
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Work. Make money. Pay for housing, housing, health care, etc. Less money means less to spend on necessities.
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Bloody brilliant! Well done. Well done indeed. My only comment is, "why not?"
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Are you referring to the loss of the Democratic majority in the Senate in 2012 or the gains the Republicans made in the House of Representatives in 2012? I think part of those were self-inflicted; not totally Obama's fault.
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Local governments will need the sales tax. Anchorage now needs to look into paying all bond debt with a varying sales tax - a rate which the voters can control . The property owners simply cannot carry the load as state revenue sharing goes away and current exemptions disappear. All young people wanting to purchase...
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Has the assembly forgotten that the people they are supposed to be representing voted for legalization?
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Tax the productive to keep economic dead ends alive. That is a sure way to make those circles around the drain get a lot closer.
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Me too...As far as that goes.
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I agree. Bonds need to start being tied to sales taxes. We are about a year or so away from major hits in housing values as oil jobs go away and take others with them. When that happens the "tax cap" which is really a revenue cap will mean higher effective property tax rates.
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So tell me about the epidemic of pot smokers that croak while imbibing.
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I feel exactly the same and I am in Steven's district. Not only will I remember in 2018, I will remind everyone I know starting June 2018. The LIO fiasco is ridiculous. Anyone with common sense would have never come to this group's conclusion...buy a spare building for the Legislature when they have money in the ope...
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IF HB 237 passes Alaska will be known for beating up oil companies when oil prices collapse, who in the world will invest in a state that treats oil producers, it's main source of income like a enemy? Alaska has enjoyed 19 billion barrels of oil produced and has a 60 Billion dollar Fund and now plans to kill the source...
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Obviously love in his life has been of benefit.
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first rule of selling,.. give the customer "a choice" and they are half sold. Stevens is trying to "sell us" on "the choice" of how to finance it, not whether they should leave it due to it`s illegality as well as it`s high cost. This stance is putting the cart before the horse, as it (making an offer to purch...
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Brought to you by the people who want to raid the permanent fund and start a personal income tax. They are simply incapable of making effective and reasonable financial decisions.
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This is a classic example of the public being lied to by the Democrat party and their lapdogs in the media. To better understand what has taken place we need to finish this sentence "Limiting access to voting"... "by illegal aliens and dead people by democrats" Yes after Obama won some swing states and with it his re...
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Donkel asks: "What do you think will happen if HB 247 is made law?" The answer: We will reduce our deficit by $500 million dollars if the version of HB247 proposed by Gov. Walker becomes law. Eliminating this corporate welfare does more to reduce the deficit that forcing Alaskans to pay an income tax. Cook Inlet ha...
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No need for ad hominem comments. Debate the issue not the person.
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Thanks Ed! The Rasmuson Foundation is doing a great public service with this education campaign.
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What a surprise that Natives in the Bush are "open to income taxes". That's because most folks in the Bush won't pay any state income tax, because it's based on their federal income tax of which most don't pay any. Perhaps 5 to 10% of Bush residents will pay state income tax. While 50% of urban Alaskans will pay sta...
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I wonder how many city employees fall within the 90% highest wage earners column for suggested tax; least give us what the annual wage for these tax rungs are.
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Per your handle (bycatch): That's because you are probably a fisherman and you don't pay squat for federal income taxes, so you won't pay diddly for state income taxes. You want other people to get screwed and pay your way. People like you are the reason I am against an income tax. A sales tax gets more peoples' sk...
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John McDowell, Coghill made that statement which I thought truly sums up his (and the majority of our legislators) ability to deal with any issue. First throw money at it and if that doesn't solve it throw it over the fence. Of course Stevens is trying to sell this in an effort to put this behind them. You are not ...
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Thank you for this Ms. Moore. Such averting of responsibility for their actions will hopefully bite them come the November elections.
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And just imagine how low health care costs in the nation would be if we didn't have to work at least one job to pay for the roof over our head, the food on our table, the day care our kids went too etc. and we had extra time and money to devote ourselves to physical fitness.
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Well Mr. Donkel, you were fully opposed to SB21, two years ago, and correctly saw it as a shaking down of AK. Your argument at the time was that it would exclude small players, such as yourself, while greatly rewarding the majors for nothing. And now you argue emphatically, just the opposite. That we need to kowto...
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Except you're historically inaccurate and I don't think you pay property taxes.
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It really is no difference from how any of us budget. Do we go "bond" our new boiler, security cameras, computer upgrades, wtc? No, we typically figure this is our operation and maintenance costs for the lifestye we can afford, which is something ASD lost sight of a long time ago. So now that the bonds were voted do...
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After 20 years of litigation, Exxon got off with less than $2B for the Valdez disaster that killed the Cordova fishing industry.
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The truth hurts True Believers the most. Haycox and Wohlforth are two of Alaska's brightest stars of gold in our field of blue. The naybobs 'round here can be labeled 'Cleopatras' because they are Queens of Denial
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Lmao...are you aware that some people use cannabis medically to lower their blood pressure? You have no idea what you are talking about, it would behoove you to educate yourself further on the matter
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Yay more student housing.
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History looks like the last ten years my property have gone up almost 200k. This year my appraised value went up 20 k. My neighbor who moved in 12 years ago sold his home for 450 k when he purchased for 230 almost double what he paid.
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Admittedly I don't know all the ins & outs of this topic. But haven't we already sold (or leased?) the rights to the oil that's coming out of the ground at this point? Wouldn't we have to get into the oil production business in a big way, buying equipment for drilling and producing, and hiring all sorts of CEO's, geolo...
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Cleopatra de Schille ^^^
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yep, the rich and well connected always win: when $ is tight they convince all the stupid middle classes to hand over thier hard earned money while they laugh all the way to the bank. funny how the rich keep getting richer at the poor's expense and we're dumb enough to enable them by voting for tax breaks for oil comp...
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For young people still here and employed in 2-3 years, falling property values will make buying a home a much sweeter deal than it is today! A sales tax is always regressive and always hurts the poor the most. BUT a local sales tax in Anchorage with "necessity" exceptions need not be a "killer" tax - and would capture...
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So philisophically, would you rather have gov't take in more revenue to fund whatever at the expense of the private sector and further reducing employment of alaskans in decent paying jobs? Are we to believe the State can do a better job of redistributing tax $ for job growth than our largest contributor for all, the ...
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Is it possible to get the required federal background check as part of an application for another non-MJ job, as listed in HB75, then just turn in the results along with the MJ application?
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For any Vision Zero resolution to be successful, all users of our transportation corridors need to get involved in safety. Its foolish and meaningless if safety only "relies" on car drivers. BEST needs to rewrite their self-serving proclamation, otherwise their wasting their and the city's time.
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"We need honest surveys- not propaganda." You mean like unknown posters hiding under the guise of, "Alaska Research"?
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It is comical that this year alone there was 5000 square miles less of sea ice in the arctic.
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She is in better shape than you will ever wish to be, most likely.
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We cannot afford to buy the Taj Mahawker building. And we do not need it. A judge said the lease Mike Hawker signed was invalid. The Anchorage legislators should move to the available and cheaper space in the Atwood Building. Immediately.
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