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But-but- but- haven't all three of our current Congressional crop ALL had nothing but publicly funded jobs for about 100 years or so among the three of them??? And, aren't they ALL Republicans?? Hmmm?? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
god bless this child and her loved ones... may they get justice and find peace. no one should walk around alone at night if at all possible. it's not her fault by any means - she was just living her life. so sad. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Okay. What if all this talk about budget crisis is a lie. Smoke screen. Scam. What if Alaska is swimming in secret accounts ($288 million in supposedly empty acct.) What accountant forgets $288 million dollars. Remember this is just what if. Crawford's opinion piece in ADN days possibility. If true it changes perceptio... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
well will we get some ac on the plane..... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Then alcohol taxes should be raised to do the same. Alcohol use and abuse has done far more damage here in Alaska than MJ ever could. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
One facility with 12 beds for the whole state of Alaska. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Your type of reasoning has lead to 90% oil production decline in the Cook Inlet and soon the Trans Alaskan Pipeline shut down!
HB 247 will devastate the state!
No one is making money in the oil business except the majors with the state's harsh laws and complicated taxes which support the major's oil monopoly!!
No... | 0.5 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
I sure do want him to stay in the race for the convention though he will never win even if he wins the nomination. What we've seen so far is mild compared to how he will react when Hillary Clinton puts the spurs to him in face to face debates. The RNC is going to be more entertaining than the pig world championship mud... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What im getting out of this is,our legislators are imcompetant and there advisres as well | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wow, good job Dermot. This is a result of a fiscal policy, buy now, pay later while using other peoples money. Shifting the burden is part of this policy. Oh, dear, or how inconvenient the private sector can be with having to account for dollars and making ends meet before justifying taking the loan. Policy makers migh... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stop it with the logic and reason, that is completely uncalled for on here. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Time to revise SB21 so that the oil industry puts more revenue into the state treasury along with the middle class right Ms. Baker? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
....between the DOC and the Wellness Court systems, someone needs to take a close look at giving addicts time off their sentencing when they're approved for treatment programs. A lot of the offenders inappropriately use treatment programs for early release but oftentimes have no intention of working on recovery. Kudo... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Anyone from 60's on recognized that voice instantly. Now Merle, Waylon are gone but those voices stay with my memories. Thank you Merle for some rocking good dance music. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Being in congress shouldn't be a career job. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In Ketchikan I am glad switch KPU and don't have the Problems no more... GCI don't care for you | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I find them to be aesthetically pleasing, an upgrade from the lifeless architecture of the late 60's/early 70's that was rampant downtown, and infinitely better than run down buildings and empty lots. To each their own. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The decision was made several years ago to upgrade the building whether leased or purchased. That may have turned out to have been a mistake.
Time for everyone to just take a deep breath and just consider the best way forward from here. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Spaying and neutering children isn't legal... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I'll gladly chip in for whatever that ad costs Mr. UK. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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ADN, your phone lines are not working either. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I do agree that what was built for awhile was awful cookie cutter stuff. just like cars from the same era. but I would rather see an empty lot that something that to me is ...at least from the sketch...awful. an empty lot still has potential - once there is a structure there, it becomes a part of the look of an area... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Long-distance guess under $7 billion - far better than it was several years ago but still has us among the handful of states wit over-the-top unfunded pension obligations. And these are one more nail in our top-bond-rating coffin. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Jim, you might want to let David Morris at GCI no that. He is clueless. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
But Lindbeck wouldn't be nearly as funny. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
KNOW that, not NO that. Sorry. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“Not that any of the club’s two dozen members — all women older than 60 — are looking to start smoking or growing. ” “They were just curious”. BILGEWATER!! These are women over 60! They are not Miss Innocents! They helped start all this! I WAS THERE! Whatever you do, don't ask them what else they're “curious” about! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
funny, i thought groups pushing for pot legalization projected $20 million+ per year in tax revenues. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I see where 1/3 of the 87 tea party republicans elected to the U.S. house in 201o are retiring. How's that for citizen lawmakers? Good for them!
I recall in the 1994 when republicans in the U.S. house were pushing for term limits. They stopped supporting term limits as soon as they became in majority following the 19... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"Republican Sen. Pete Kelly, who sponsored the bill, says it's a no-brainer for those who want to keep themselves safe at a time when mass shootings are increasing in the United States."
Well, I definitely bow to Pete's authority on the whole not-having-a-brain thing...
OK then. It's absolutely time to start a citize... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
When can we expect tourons to be kicked out of walmart parking lots while enjoying their peaceful vacations in their motorhomes? | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
you have my vote! Those idiots in Juneau, I wonder who voted against this unnecessary stupid law. | 0.838235 | 0.073529 | 0.205882 | 0 | 0.808824 | 0.044118 | 0 |
This is great, Elvi is wonderful and is a true representative of the people. She's one of the hardest workers the Assembly has ever had. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Most likely PERS and TRS will be more underfunded than expected. Pension consultants across the board are still recommending a pipe-dream 7.5% annual yield (or more) on pension investment returns. With interest rates likely to turn negative the next time we hit a recession (Europe, Japan, etc already have negative inte... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pete Kelly is surely referring to all those times when someone with a concealed weapon stopped a mass shooting. All those times such as...umm...well...never. Not even in the fake scenarios in which they gave fake guns to people and told them to stop a fake mass shooting did this idea work. I think most of the subjects ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I can't think of a place with more bad actors around than a courthouse. So I assume our NRA lackeys will soon be abolishing all the tedious and expensive security there.
Incidentally, I just got back from a trip to Israel--a small country where terrorist attacks aren't a cheap Republican scare tactic but an almost da... | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
Borealis Broadband all the way! :) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
http://college.usatoday.com/2016/02/24/u-of-houston-faculty-get-tips-on-how-not-to-get-killed/ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OMG... This article and a LOT of the comments are sickening me. There is such as thing as being TOO "politically correct" here. I don't think that this poor restauranteur set out to take a dig at all the past conquered colonies specifically of the British Empire. She probably had NO clue that her love and intrigue ... | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0 |
and guess where you future pfd's are going to? the pers system. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If you live in Anchorage, Obomba, I sincerely challenge you to go visit the Wal Mart parking lot on A Street and Benson. Right now there're a half dozen dumpy looking mini motorhomes that've been parked there since last summer. These squatters aren't tourists. I believe this is the group type that Jackson was referr... | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Red.. I think it should be fairly clear to most at this point that the PFD is in FACT welfare. We have created a dependant class of people that say outright that they literally rely on it to live.. What these people did to make ends meet before the dividend one can only guess. The only "fair " course of action is to s... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I don't buy the contention of working and not being able to be engaged. I worked for 50 years and was able to not only be engaged but part of the solutions. There is email, comments, teleconference calls, snail mail if nothing else. But participate. And more will when they have to pony up for the pfd's etc they ha... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I am sometimes surprised that more minorities do not support conservative candidates when the conservative candidate is supposed to be sharing the same values. For instance, with Jews, conservatives are better at supporting Israel. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I guess your comment goes to show that some people simply cannot understand rather simple points...or don't want to. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counting $ and spending $ before its even there. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Not with dumb ideas like putting limits on when people can park their motor homes on private businesses. Anchorage deserves better than a leader who wastes government time and resources on initiatives that only benefit the people who contribute the most to her campaigns. | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 |
Back into your trashcan, Oscar. | 0.5 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
When exactly was that? I'm a 40 year old Portland native and I am really curious to know when this mythical time you speak of occurred. You don't get to refer to "back in the day" when it never existed. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Then it's Walmart's problem to evict them, not the Anchorage Assembly. If Walmart is ok with it, why should government officials like Ms. Gray-Jackson be wasting time and money on it? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Drug dealing is now moving into better conditions. Organized drug cartels can now enjoy the benefits of serving the youth with altered states of mind. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Anybody but The Donald.....Anybody. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
sThe right to bear arms was already legal. The state senate has no authority to even consider this. UAA is a state funded school, it will be subject to all conditions of Federal law. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sorry Mr. Gerry Sanger, I will be more considerate of your eyes in the future! Please call your legislators and tell them not to hurt Alaska's financial health in the future with bad laws like HB 247! Thanks you very much!! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 |
Will Pete Kelly and the Senators who supported this bill also agree to allowing concealed weapons in the Capitol Building?
After all, "it's a no-brainer for those who want to keep themselves safe when mass shootings are increasing in the United States." | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The affects of this seem to be having an effect across the state. A sobering reminder of what could happen if/when Anchorage gets hit with a major quake. Would be nice for back up routing to be in place should ANC go offline. Guess that costs $$$. Expensive until you need it | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Muck,
Because if only the property tax payers had to pay that $1, nothing would change; however, what if everyone (renters, tourists, visitors, etc) who makes a retail purchase had to pay a sales tax to pay off bond debt. My guess is that the property owner's obligation would then be less than that $1.
I am concern... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
She must be needing more of that VECO kind of money? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"as far as benefits, there are some that I never use nor will I ever use. why then does the state force others to pay for something we don’t want?"
Exaaaactly, Christy.
I know I'M gettin' pretty darned tired of paying for road service, police and fire protection, and emergency services around where you live. I never ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
will billary put the spurs to him before or after he exposes all her lies and scandals? | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
How utterly, completely stupid. These clowns need to go. | 0.892857 | 0.053571 | 0.125 | 0.035714 | 0.875 | 0.017857 | 0 |
Pete Kelly using the term "no-brainer"... it couldn't get more oxymoronic than that. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
maybe you could file a complaint. oh wait, this has nothing to do with palin. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
" I've heard" ....and from who? none of jacksons bizness. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
you're right. this bill should have been passed during statehood days | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
hope so, no reason not to. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Every right has exceptions - free speech classically doesn't allow you to yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Even with the logic of the Heller decision, the right to bear arms is and always has been subject to sensible regulation. Notably, the second amendment is the only one that actually contains the phrase "well regu... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The criminal Bundys (6 in jail without bail now including the Patriach Cliven) and their violent delusional militia followers who trashed the publicly owned internationally regarded educational and scientific facility at Malheur Refuge, desecrated ancient Paiute archeological sites, terrorized the town of Burns Oregon ... | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
You have a "Right to Keep and Bear Arms." You don't have a right to take arms with you wherever you like. Care to test it? Try going strapped into the Trooper Barracks, the Legislative Building, a VA Hospital (or Facility), or onto Fort Wainwright. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The ACLU sounds more like a whacked out and biased commentor than a credible advocacy organization; is this the result of the departure of Dave Fidanque, who was a strong advocate, but not so overwrought? | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Wonderful news. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
AK is not open for business by passing any part of HB 247 new
House Bill 247 represents a public policy that’s “hellbent, 24-7,” to send oil companies packing from the North Slope, as one company official, Bill Armstrong of independent Armstrong Oil and Gas, said at a hearing last month.
If the state wants to enjoy th... | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
AK is not open for business by passing any part of HB 247 new
House Bill 247 represents a public policy that’s “hellbent, 24-7,” to send oil companies packing from the North Slope, as one company official, Bill Armstrong of independent Armstrong Oil and Gas, said at a hearing last month.
If the state wants to enjoy th... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I'm amazed most local property management companies are not shut down. It's not entirely their fault. Property investors usually do not have the finances to properly maintain their buildings and expect property management companies to get by on the cheap. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Read Much, or did you attend the UA?
http://controversialtimes.com/issues/constitutional-rights/12-times-mass-shootings-were-stopped-by-good-guys-with-guns/ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This is not good journalism, the yea's and nay's should be named in the article. The public has a need to know. There isn't even a vote count, pathetic. Rashah, you are usually better than this. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
I am going to be a jail bird hear soon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
x infinity Chilkat Alexander. He keeps raising it to a new level.....amazingly sad. Watched him ramble on live. $arah in slacks.... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you for not creating another Victim Zone...since almost every single mass shooting happens in Gun Free Zones. Politicians Caught Doing Something Right!!! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blatant ignoring the will of the regents. More ALEC playbook. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Well, Kelly had the no-brain part right. | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
Normal education reviews both sides of an issue. The one way street, hasn't worked out so well over the past 30 years, just in case your a UA regent. Always leave your Regents behind.
"Many mass shootings happen in supposedly “gun-free” zones (such as schools, universities or private property posted with a no-guns si... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 |
Elections have consequences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cgi to the legislatures site (or app) and read for yourself...then vote out the ones who voted Nay! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Good Luck Elvi ~ ! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nonprofit Eugene did a great interview with SPOT recently. The show has interviewed over 35 local nonprofits. The Register Guard should do a story on them. All the episodes are available at www.NonprofitEugene.org | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Good reporting. Bad politics. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The FBI 'Went full retard on the place'???
Yeah, that sounds like a real valuable piece of evidence! NOT! Who wrote this drivel? The Bundy, their mentally challenged supporters,
and their under investigation attorneys can
can dream all they want but the Bundys and their groupies will be incarcerated for a long time, t... | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 |
12 times since 1997, out of around 300 or more mass shootings per year. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The problem with the increase in new apartments is that rents won't fall. It seems to me like the problem has less to do with availability of housing and more to do with the cost of housing. I know economics says the cost rises because the supply is lower than the demand, but it seems unlikely that increasing the numbe... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
RV So Crime is just so funny to you? | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
I had class & work today. The point was that on a day like today work or school are the only reasons to be online. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Well the obvious question related to why the Regents flunked 8th grade Alaska Civics? Article 1, Section 19. One would think in a College atmosphere, a 19 year old could read at a 6th grade level.
"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
We get the politicians and leaders that we deserve. No better, no worse. In my opinion, what is more frightening than Donald Trump is that so many people support him. I have lived more than half of my life overseas, and sometimes it is quite embarrassing fessing up to being American.
We are a wonderful country, but w... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
As long as the rules are strictly enforced I don't have a problem with it. Some people think that prohibiting legal weapons will somehow make all the illegal ones go away. If you're going to carry know how to use it & know the law. | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
Yeas: Coghill, Costello, Dunleavy, Giessel, Huggins, Kelly,
MacKinnon, McGuire, Meyer, Micciche, Stedman, Stoltze,
Wielechowski
Nays: Bishop, Egan, Gardner, Hoffman, Stevens
Excused: Ellis
Absent: Olson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
One of our family members used to go to all the council meetings and be involved, however we are rural and are not within city limits to be eligible to run, otherwise you can be certain would have ran/applied for a position.
After living near the city for generations and observing what I stated in the above comment, ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Supremes have already ruled that there are places where guns can be prohibited. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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