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Daylight saving time causes many people to have health problems. In Alaska it is even worse, because during DST we have to time shift two hours ahead, not just one. During DST, it is dark about two thirds of the year in the morning, causing night owls to have jet lag. DST and the time zone shift from the 1980s is st...
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Right. RR, you EVER see a black person you like, or don't have a complaint about?
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I'm sure just as many construction or airline ramp workers or school kids could benefit from more evening light as well.
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Land of the 11 o'clock sun. Yeah, now that's a marketing slogan.
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I'm curious what facts you feel would mitigate his actions. At 18, or even at 14, youthful stupidity does not excuse harassment, threats and extortion. What do we hope to accomplish? To ensure that he never does this again. To send the message that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. It doesn't matter what j...
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guess I disagree - using 2 examples at opposite ends of the spectrum to support my statement of can't generalize. 2 non-profits not at all the same... LOL - you are SO welcome for the many times I "chime(d) in" on the subject. it's the least I can do to try to not have that terrible structure built. frankly , i'm su...
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How about to balance the budget and not spend down our savings, nimrod..?
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No raiding of the dividend, OR consideration an income tax, until 3/4`s of a billion a year in BS21 oil tax credits and subsidies go away.
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Talk about taking your eye off the ball. A $4B budget shortfall and they are talking about changing the clock twice a year?????
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That is one of the most disjointed irrelevant conglomerations of concepts and political nonsense I have ever seen, even here on the R-G opinion pages. Mr. Kahle has outdone himself by providing totally useless comparisons between tug-of-war, the US Supreme Court, and a Mayoral election in the insignificant small tow...
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Let's get past the time change and on to balancing the budget, shall we?
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I doubt any of the administrators at the UA have anything to worry. What bothers me is I haven't seen any list of the programs facing the axe that has been put forward. Only numbers and vague references have been presented to the public. I suppose that makes it easier for the regents to ignore the needs of the communi...
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There are a growing number of people who are neither Republican nor Democrat. All Americans should possess the right to have their voices heard, not just those who prescribe to one of the two dominant political parties.
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It's no wonder our State is broke when this is what our government is working on.
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Uh Granger. I think we are on the same team. http://dps.alaska.gov/ast/academy/ So quit calling me names.............
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Knock it off, he make a legitimate point. Why bring her race in it? There is no reason for it in this story
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Too much.
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Too much, considering how much damage they cause the taxpayers in this community.
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Best of luck!
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The current legislature continues to cross lines with stupid bills and a failure for the last several sessions in addressing the real problems facing Alaska today. I hope many will join me in replacing many of these non productive obstructionists this fall.
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That is what democrats do,
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She doesn't represent me. I know that a light socket is not substitute for a hairstylist. In the photo in the article she clearly hasn't yet.
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I agree completely. "Death With Dignity' as passed by the voters was a good beginning. The ability to 'pull the plug' should be at least as important a right as many of those invented by the Courts in the last 50 years or so. The 'murder-suicides' by the elderly which occur in this country on a regular basis are a...
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Funny the welfare guzzlers in those motorhomes are probably supporters of her. Just proves that he who give the most campaign donations to her get their way.
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You've got my vote!
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Agree totally with the majority of readers in criticizing both the merits of this bill and the time wasted on it, when far more pressing issues deserve legislators' attention. But, for what it's worth, here's suggesting that we follow Hawaii's lead and a) stay on the same time year-round; and b) cultivate the attitude...
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Many of the shootings occur at elementary and secondary schools...we already had a school shooting in Bethel...so by the "carry to be safe" logic, we should be arming grade and high school kids...after all they have second amendment rights too...and those rights "shall not be infringed", right?.... I was in Canada ...
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We are not a large enough state to have multiple university campuses. UAF should be decommissioned and the system consolidated. Programs and quality could still be maintained.
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Hot Wire Electric will be paying serious damages for their stupidity.
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But it is the truth. Democrats haven't been anything but a destructive force since Lyndon Johnson was president. Truman was the last one with a brain in his head and a desire to do well for the United States
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Yet you keep coming back, asserting again and again that your version of civility as well as your "truth" are superior. Your argument on this issue fails in several ways, but here's the most disturbing among them: If you had a friend or relative with the hint of an addiction problem, you certainly wouldn't want to cont...
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Let it go legislature. There are more important issues facing our state.
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Don't know him, going by the story. I am sure that if he had the ADN would have reported it. Unless there was a reason not to for some reason
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It's a pun, you oaf.
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They do. In the actual election.
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This is how they'll do it. The legislators will implement a stealth tax increase. A 20 or 30% tuition increase here. Soon hunting and fishing licenses will go up. Then car registrations. And all the rest. Is it wrong that the users bear the cost? Maybe not. But call it for what it is: a tax on Alaska citizens, and...
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The legislature never checks fact before proposing and sometimes passing bills. Look at SB 21, the Anchorage LIO(granted it was a committee who authorized the deal), school pension obligations and a host of other inconceived and reckless legislation. Throw the bums out!
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How can they vote to buy it when no price has been agreed upon? They are so eager to give away our tax dollars to their co-conspirators they don't even need to know how much they are stealing?
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This is *definitely* the most important issue facing the state this year.
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Non-digestible sugars often have interesting intestinal consequences. Forewarned is forearmed.
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How much is spent on University athletics? What income is generated? What element of alumni donations is driven by them? The Shootout can't fill the seats anymore. The athletes benefit, as do the coaches and athletic administration, but do they deserve priority over academic programs and research which do bring in ...
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They don't get to chose the time when they must report or wait. Not everyone has the option of choosing when they can be most productive.
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I have owned several dogs of various breeds, from a purebred boxer, a "German" shepherd', and a beagle to my current menagerie of 'rescue mutts'. I had to have one 'rescue dog' put down who appeared to be mostly shepherd; he went after the neighbor's sheep, another neighbor's dog and a fellow giving me an estimate on...
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It's obvious you think that was really, really clever.
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I just searched "Steve Lindbeck for Alaska US Representative" at Google and found no website. I suggest he put one up and take donations through a Paypal account. I could have this done in less than an hour. That is how easy it is. This should have been done before making the announcement.
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You know what it's time for? To vote every incumbent out. They obviously aren't getting the message that we demand that they stop screwing around with frivolous bills and focus on the priorities. We can deal with clocks once they pull us out of the money hole they dug for us.
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Does the Alaska State Legislator allow open carry for their sessions and any where in the capitol offices of the departments of state government? Why doesn't the state legislator enact an official state holiday and call it "Take Your Gun to Work and a Public School" Day?
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We need another bad label for age discriminators. Bigot and Racist are already taken. How about senior basher. Richard Rhyner you are a senior basher. That puts you right in there with bigots and racists.
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I'm confident that Mrs. Wu reported her son's condition to the appropriate mental health authorities to ensure that he wasn't able to purchase a firearm. Any licensed mental health professional would obviously have done that to protect the rest of us in society.
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Getting rid of daylight savings means that we will have more dark in the afternoon and evenings in the fall and spring. That's depressing and not productive. Anna McKinnon is obsessed with aligning us with California. She should move there, and leave Alaskans alone.
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I plan to move to the Mat-Su, probably Palmer, but I want nothing to do with the mind blotting of drugs. My opinion of those who do is that they are unlikely to make rational choices when they go to vote.
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You've got it backwards. DST makes people healthier. There is more light after work in the fall and spring, so people are more inclined to excersize after work. Perpetual darkness after work leads to depression.
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Authenticity is a rare find; and seldom rewarded, unfortunately. "Fake it 'til you make it', has too many adherents.
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Agree. The public should make legislators walk the plank off the top of the TajMahawker if the deviate from budget issues. Anna McKinnon ... you're up.
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Frederick, you illustrate some extreme examples and the results were appropriate for those you cite. How about outlining enemies? Aren't enemies the ones you kill or vanquish? Are we to outlaw speech that expresses an opinion, short of advocating violence, that others may disagree with? I think the KKK are ignorant peo...
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Right? Who cares what it looks like outside as you walk from your house to your car and from your car to the office. Morning light, please, bah! I realize this post looks like sarcasm, but it isn't. People who claim they "lose light" with this clock changing nonsense are insane. We have the same amount of light, we jus...
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I looked at the pictures and was surprised to see American looking workers. GCI sent South Americans here to my house to hook up my GCI connection to cable TV. The whole crew sounded like they just got off the boat.
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So the airline ramp workers all stop working the second it become dark? And no one in Alaska in a construction or outside job works in the winter when it's dark? Please. I waited for buses in the dark my entire school life here in Alaska, it's unavoidable.
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I don't give a D which time change we align to, as long as we stop changing clocks twice a year like crazy people.
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Yes. For many people, it sucks and is extremely disruptive.
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I suppose that we here in Alaska are a little late, but at least we can become the ninth state to protect the right to carry on state public property.
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Note the striking contrast between painful and dramatic cuts at the UAF and UAA campuses relative to potential cuts at UA Statewide in the President's report (linked in the story). Relative to millions of dollars in cuts and hundreds of staff and faculty layoffs at the two largest campuses that serve the bulk of studen...
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At least 200 of those jobs could be saved if the legislature didn't spend $32.5 million on the Taj MaHawker.
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Interesting cites Frederick. I am curious about the context that Dr. Pianka was addressing and advocating mass extermination? As far as Tom Metzger, he was found guilty and there was ample evidence that he incited the murder. Of course, I think he should also be doing some time in the crossbar hotel as well. That is ...
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Your hypothetical situations change nothing. Either way, the child is waiting in the dark. I sure did growing up. The ramp and construction worker will still be working in the same amount of daylight.
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"...Just stay home and cuddle your guns." Or suck your thumb.
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No matter how you look at it it will affect lots of people for quite awhile-
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There are those over the age of 60 who, because of legal requirements for a profession, employment requirements and testing, military regulations and testing, and actually following the law at the time who have not actually used marijuana. There are today truck drivers, police officers, correctional officers, and ...
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Not once did I say I was against guns so apparently reading comprehension isn't your strong suit! Secondly with that being the case no everyone should not follow this mans example because they are more likely to kill someone else on accident. This guy put himself in a dangerous position and had the man been more fo...
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The "new" comment -review is pretty dumb!
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One word...BUDGET. Get it? Got it? Good.
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Bill Wielechowski voted in favor of this. I'm surprised. Please Bill, do explain your decision making here. It seems like a real bad idea.
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I believe now that we are actually having to pay for the waste of money, we are going to be a lot more sceptical. Last time I protested I was called all kinds of names. Well it's not so funny when the state yanked the money and we got the bill. Now there's no more free money we can't just vote for and say "oh the state...
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If Governor Walker vetoes this legislation, then Bill Wilechowski will be disappointed. He voted in for of this stupid idea. I never figured he'd join with Pete Kelley's logic and agree that guns on campus is a good idea.
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Why, yes, I am oblivious. I don't care at all about soccer, whether by men, women, transgender, gay, lesbian or whatever the next category surfaces to describe a human being. I just don't care and will not watch soccer. I also don't watch automobile racing in all its variations. Or wrestling or cage fighting o...
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I can't find the right to the safe work place, can you direct me to it in the Constitution, I've been looking, and where exactly do you see it?
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Ranger, today's Republican party is definitely not the Republican party of Lincoln. The Civil War South chose to be Democratic because Lincoln was Republican. LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is what caused the Dixiecratic (Southern Democratic) South to become Republican. And, Richard Nixon wooed tha...
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Bree Kessler, You need to think bigger. We have the greatest resource in the USA in the form of Parks and Refuges. ANWR alone is larger than the 5 smallest states combined. Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is larger than Switzerland. So here is an idea. Change the State vehicle license plate to read “Ala...
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There are verifiable instances, in the hundreds of thousands of crimes being stopped or not being committed by law abiding citizens with guns. Most of the time just the appearance stops a would be crime. This happens annually according to the FBI and other sources.
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Ranger, didn't you learn that you don't end a sentence with a preposition? "WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL AT?", you wrote.
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After first pointing out that anti-tax has a long history in the Republican party, dating back to the Civil War, Mr. Haycox then claims "the [Republican] majority has bought into the new anti-tax paradigm which he traces to the Reagan revolution. Mr. Reagan was elected in 1980. More than 35 years ago- a full generati...
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Get ready Governor, this should head straight to your VETO pad and then the file 13 next to your desk! Have they just gone totally bat-a** crazy, or what?
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Does this young lady have a big brother or some large male friends who are into justice? I'm not suggesting violence, however, this punk needs a proper introduction to the real world.
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Only a pittance. They're REMFs!
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Complete insane. With luck the house won't see it this way, or the governor will veto this legislation. There are two reasons for this: 1) young people are hormonal and use lots of alcohol, and 2) it is probably a good idea to allow the regents to set policy on campuses.
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Ranger, today's Democratic party is more aligned with the party of Lincoln than today's Republican party. The Civil War Southern Democrats continued through the Reconstruction period and were and are the KKKer's and were more recently, the Dixiecrats. These Southern Democrats were not the same Democratic Party as t...
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Really, really well said: Thank You!
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Jeff Shrader (a phd candidate at USC ) has written some pretty interesting research on the effect of time zones/sleep on productivity: in short, the farther east you live in a time zone the more sleep you get (early to bed) and there is a noticeable effect on wages/productivity. However, the link or effect of eliminati...
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Steve Haycox, I have enjoyed your public writings over the years. This article is interesting history, but you appear to have an agenda pushing a state income tax. Maybe your history lesson should have included the evolution of the federal income tax and the special interest lobbying that has made the 80 thousand pages...
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"Rocket scientist by day; Machine Gun Kelly by night." Unknown author.
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I'm a southeast boy; it seems like we had this fight more than 30 years ago. I want to know which towns "unofficially use Pacific Time." I ball BS to that as I've lived there since 1963 and have no knowledge of this. The I really have is this: those Senate Republicans from the valley are lower 48 Americans and they sho...
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That's funny, haven't noticed many folks on welfare digging in their wallets to finance local politicians. More often the well-to-do white folks on that kind of action. And of course they frequently do it in hopes receiving corporate welfare later on, so I guess they can call it an 'investment.' Like the SYN, though...
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What's the big deal, in my 9th grade class we brought our guns to the public school, had firearms safety class, got the hunters certificate, and imagine, not one person got shot. Education what a concept. Whats the IQ level today at the UA? In 8th grade, we learned this Alaska concept; A well-regulated militia being n...
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I dunno about that, Rachael. I get up at 4am and go to bed at 11pm each day. I love the morning sun and that is my most productive time.
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WTF. Quit right now and focus on the budget. What a freaking circus. Our legislators act like they have time to waste.
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Heh. RR never makes a legitimate point when it comes to black folks. I've followed his rather checkered 'commenting career' for a while. Saw him go completely apoplectic when a black lady talked back to him once. Actually said he wanted to 'put her in her place.' But my question to you is, was there ever a black A...
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what is the stock for?
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OK, she's the wrong color and you don't like her hair. Anything else you wanna whine about? Watch out, friend--I might run for school board next time. If I win, then you'll have a (gasp!) MUSLIM on the school board. Try not to have a stroke.
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YAAAAY!!!
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