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If people like you and Jim Minnery have their way and keep sex education out of our schools, Planned Parenthood will perform more abortions than ever. This kind of attitude actually increases the number of abortions, but you people don't actually care about that, so long as the checks keep rolling in to your churches a...
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The mega projects should all be suspended until the state's financial house is in order and adequate funds are available. When and if this occurs, any of these mega projects which are economically viable could be restarted, but only one at a time until that project is complete. The present status of several projects ...
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Thor, thank you for your comment. You have to understand that Alaskans have been conditioned to feel guilty whenever they challenge the oilco's in any way. You bring up points that get sucked into a vacuum of foot shuffling, looking askance and deafness; it's like those facts don't exist. On top of that, the questioner...
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Minnery is a dishonest person, which is ironic given that he claims to be a follower of Jesus. He lies to get what he wants.
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The legislature needs to do their job in the time frame required by law. But no, they are obsessed with other details and will enjoy another special session. Some of these new up-and-coming politicians need to be elected into our legislature and show folks how to get the job done. Our Governor is our Governor full-t...
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Slavery went away because of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. This principle started in 1803 in a case called Marbury v. Madison and has been added to by the Federal and State courts decade after decade after decade.
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This is the homeless man that was shot during the incident my name is Kevin Hays and more than just the homeless man I'm a father to two lovely children a little boy and a little girl 6 year old I'm sorry and 9 year old Madison and 3 year old Jacob like I said my name is Kevin Donald Hays I went to Reynolds High School...
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This is nothing but red meat for the hayseed, single-issue primary voters. Republican legislators know they dun screwed up bad on the budget and giving away our oil wealth. As long as they stick to the holy Four G's (god, guns, gays, and gabortion) they will get through the primary and then they're shoe-ins in the ge...
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What are they stealing from you? It's not 'your' money.
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No, it's not a poor people shouldn't have children argument. It's the argument to "why should we pay..." when ultimately, we do. And sadly, so will many, many children... Plenty of people who live below the poverty line are capable and willing to provide their children with a safe and loving home. Plenty more can not o...
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Cut and paste away, Kate! Don't let those original thoughts enter your head, that would be terrifying!
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I still want to know Earthquakes were used as the excuse to demolish the old city hall Yet no one in city government thought of that when designing new building Remember the city council was sputtering about their office space before the earthquake problems came about. That was what was important to them and the size o...
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Heard the locate marks were off by ~6ft. If that's true, I don't see how the contractors can be blamed.
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Bankers, Get Ready to Pickup All The House Keys ~ They Will Be Arriving on your Desk Soon Enough. Drive Around Anchorage Lately. See All The House For Sale Signs. Boom Bust Cycle.
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How convenient ....
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You are preachin' to the choir, Pearl! The caucus system is unfair to the voters who put each and every legislator in our state government only to have their voices silenced by "the majority" Speaker of The House, Mike Chenault, one of the last vestiges of Bill Allen's Corrupt Bastards Club. Muck `em out!
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Now this is what I like, a sensible Alaskan speaking sensibly. Thank you Lois.
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Was not the reason for building a new City Hall because the old building was not earthquake sturdy? Why is it now a surprise that the building is being designed to conform with current seismic building code?
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It’s time to get rid of these vindictive freeloaders that have made a carrier out of abusing our democracy. What a sense of entitlement. Now is the time to institute term limits for members of the house and senate. They’ve instituted term limits for the President of the United States of America for the same reasons, bu...
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Certainly it is about prediction, based on flawed data: you cannot predict accurately which students to deny the chance to succeed. Even though some may not continue past Algebra, removing the chance to learn it is not an option. As we learned long ago when measuring IQ, not all students are equally prepared to unde...
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good story thanks
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There is one common denominator for all sides: AK needs a balanced and sustainable budget. How to get there? Fact. Argue all we want about cuts, but cuts alone will come nowhere close to getting us there. Fact. Oil prices will probably not rise enough soon to once again bail us out. Fact. Multiple new revenue streams,...
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Had copied that line myself. Yup, you are perfectly correct. Plus, they are now stifling the Governor's powers. Arrogance and entitlement spells this republican legislature
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Don't forget the private investigators she hired to dig up dirt (so she could ruin their lives) and harass slick Bill's "dates" ...nope nothing to see here folks...keep on moving
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As the grandmother of this victim and also being an adult survivor of child sex abuse, I too hope that he gets consecutive sentences for each and every count he was found guilty of. I only wish that he could have gotten a rape charge for every instance that he assaulted her. She was 11 years old and this will be a li...
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You're a Cheechako, aren't you?
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Do you really believe the state pays Alaskan oil workers to drill and produce oil and the people of the state get zero for it? Really, are you for real, please tell me you work for greenpeace and you hate Alaskan oil workers and you wish they all lost their jobs, I would believe you then! Is it easy for you to live...
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RR, you're living in an alternate world. Research brings in five times more than what the state invests, in some departments that number is many times higher. In fact, it's the only thing investment right now that's making money and providing economic benefits to the state. The size of the cuts proposed is almost exact...
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Like Israel has? Apparently you have never been to Israel. Trust me when I tell you that we share very few values with the zio mafia who run Israel and the US and many other countries for fun and profit regardless of how many people they need to have us kill for them. The job has aged obama not just because he is almos...
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"Past their use date" is not the only reason dams are coming down. Logic and reasoning in relation to the proliferation of new energy alternatives has more to do with it. If only new dams were replacing those with the "use by date," I'd be wrong. But they aren't. At least not in areas where intelligence prevails. Dams ...
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I'm sure you're aware that the police and fire departments don't just serve campus right?
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Jamison, you have spoken clearly and eloquently. Right on!
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One man's perversion is another man's protected lifestyle. Someone once said that "Celibacy is the only true perversion." Our society is rapidly moving in that direction.
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The surprise is that earthquake readiness was not included in the original plan. Does sort of make one wonder if earthquake readiness is the real reason for the redesign, and if this is really the end of the fiascoes. I keep waiting for another shoe to drop.
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We don't need the Knik Arm bridge, now or ever. It would only make commute times faster for people who live past Big Lake. The argument that Anchorage is running out of land doesn't justify the project. Get rid of the PFD & there will be an exodus of epic proportions. Land/housing problem solved.
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Exasperating and frustrating that Alaskan voters don't get the picture. It's Favors Season! The desperate legislators will grant any favor to stay in their cushy jobs.
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The only individuals claiming that these individuals were "leftists" we're the Trump supporters. At no point in time was their an unbiased journalist in the video, providing commentary and determining the backgrounds of the protestors. I still saw absolutely no proof that Bernie had any association with the event, or t...
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Best and most reasonable comment in this thread. Well done Sir. Well done indeed.
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Hugh: The anonymity issue will never be resolved. Some of sign our own names are are willing to "own" everything we write. By doing so we are often targeted with some very, very nasty personal attacks. I've built a file of those anonymous mailings from over the last 40 years....I facetiously have labeled it "constr...
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one more time. HAD YOU READ MORE CAREFULLY you would have read I made a clear distinction that I had no problem with abortion right up until a beating heart was involved. You are pulling from one post out of several off the thread you referenced, Junior.
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To all you nattering hard righter's that are always carping about how left the Dispatch is, how do you reconcile your bone-to-pick with this published piece of hard right lunatic codswallop?
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Born here.
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Oh, and I forgot one thing, a big thing. Fact. The State's financial relationship and "arrangements" with Big Oil need to be changed to better serve the best interests of the State and its citizens. Smarter people than I need to define what that should look like going forward.
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I agree, there needs to be a constitutional restriction on spending. Until then, we will never have a sustainable budget.
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I suggest an "Alaska Doomsday Clock". At midnight on this clock the State Government will have finally gained access to the Corpus of the Permanent Fund by Constitutional Ammendment. Within a few years or so all that money will be gone. Alaska will be destitute and a northern version of Puerto Rico today. Today, I w...
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There is indeed a scriptural mention for Christians gathering for worship on the first day of the week "Sunday" in Acts 20:7 "On the first day of the week, they gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord's Supper. Paul was preaching to them, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midni...
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According the State Constitution, it is our money. Do your self a favor before flap your thumbs on your phone typing ignorant information. All resources are collectively owned by the people. That's why Wally Hickle called ALASKA, "the owner State".
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The "unsigned" editorials published in the RG represent the position of the Editorial Board which represents the publishers of the newspaper. This is not breaking news. Letters and OpEd pieces represent the views of those who sign those pieces. Those editorials are knowingly and intentionally "unsigned" to make ver...
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Wait a minute here! I don't recall one of these cats objecting to the influx of $$ that will be Federally supplied by locating the F-35 squadron in Alaska. How could that be?
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The Knik Arm bridge serves two purposes: to allow land speculators to reap profits, and to provide failed politicians with jobs and income at taxpayer expense. It's a boondoggle of the first order, serving a few and gouging the many.
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When there are jobs, the Left works for their money and services. The Right Tight Republicans simply recycle money and cut services to our brothers and sisters.
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repeating the same babbling nonsense doesn't make it fact, it shows a lack of intelligence. It isn't an issue of prediction. Your argument is deluded straw. Furthermore it's in print and you still fail to follow the discussion. I advocate teaching algebra as an elective, not remove it entirely from the curriculum as yo...
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Steven, I must say that I can think of nobody I would rather be sitting next to on a plane rapidly losing altitude with both engines on fire than you. I am sure you would be telling me how our seatbelts will save us.
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Here's the real news: "The news out of last night's Oil Tax & Oil Company Tax Credit bill debate is - well - Alaskans lost. As modest as the Governor's bill was (left us with a very low 5% Production tax even if oil prices double), this bill leaves Alaska with tax credits that far exceed our Oil Production Tax. The l...
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The term "liberal dementia" in reference to an individual's post is hardly part of a discussion of "issues". It is, in my opinion, rather an attack on the individual who wrote the post. It dismisses the post as the product of the writers "political mental illness." You, sir, have a long history of personally attack o...
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I call BS on Musselman!!!! Take it back to Texas, cuz we ain't cattle ranchers! Anti-oil rhetoric? You bet, because we are sick of wearing kneepads with your name on them! Goodby, and I hope someone has maintained your mansion, in your absence. Oh, wait...you're probably not even IN Alaska! And we are paying you for it...
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A beautiful story, Mr. Fair. Well done, in many ways.
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Here's what you missed, gary; the RG has stated to redundancy a corporation is not a person to then post every day on their editorial page: a newspaper is a CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. the hypocrisy is staggering. the policy of these hypocrites mandates everyone else sign their editorial and op-ed letters. NO COMPANY is...
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She's a friend of all things government -- not the taxpayer. With unemployment down, she's setting us up for another raid on our pocketbooks. Thank you ma'am; may I have another?
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... Not without significant changes to four things: (1) State income taxes that would allow mining personnel to contribute to repaying a mining road investment (2) significant increases to State mining taxes (3) mandatory long-term mining road bond investments by the benefiting mine operators (4) no throw-away oil-like...
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And it's subsidized.
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Adios - our oil can stay in the ground if the only choice is paying you more than we make when it is extracted.
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Alaska survived before oil, and during oil, and will survive after oil.
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Most historians argue, to the contrary, that throughout the interwar period, Germany remained mired in an economic slump that had begun with the collapse of peace and the first phase of trade globalization in 1914. In 1929, by almost every measure, Germany had not yet recovered the levels of prosperity it had enjoyed p...
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That's not exactly true, either. The PF is our money. The PFD is a mechanism to distribute some of that money back to the residents but there's no Constitutional requirement to disperse that money. If it is in the State's best interest to spend that money elsewhere, they certainly can. I'd rather see the PFD go to zero...
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Agreed with 7up. Not every college student is a Bernie Sanders supporter (did you not see the article? It literally States these students who are Trump supporters!) There are MANY groups who protest against Trump supporters such as Mecha and the white rose society, and they aren't allowed to choose a particular candida...
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Jon Ruiz (city manager) and an ex-mayor Kitty Piercy will run roughshod over Lucy Vinis. A vote for Vinis is a vote for the status quo, i.e. more nasty rezoning fights; more disguised levys, fees, and tax measures to fund nonessential projects; more secret and deceitful maneuvering; more misrepresentation; more give a...
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8-0, three shocking ladies included. No UA, required. "The gambit worked. The ex-boyfriend "got scared and he left [her] alone" Id., at 36. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-10078_aplc.pdf
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So what sentence did the EPA agents receive when they contaminated the river in Colorado?
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Undoubtedly will be protested because of Robert Bork reference
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And I do, too! Put a saddle on that and ride it, Cowgirl!
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Yes, crime will most certainly surge ... the legislators will have to scramble even harder for the oil crumbs.
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The timing of this company's letter seems "crude" with Alaska's legislative session happening, and they got even more mileage by getting attention from the news media too. I get a kick out of their claiming a "constant barrage of anti-industry rhetoric and reflexive policy actions"-- Big Oil's "constant barrage" (liter...
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Once again we are shocked to find out that we indeed do not have a democracy but a republic. We are not that much different from the countries that practice other forms of government that our leaders denounce. This makes us sort of a hypocrite.
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Their donations were chump change!
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I'm a 62 year Alaskan. I grew up drinking Matanuska Maid Milk, so that takes care of that. Yes, a fish processing plant in Anchorage was a loser from the get-go. The coal terminal is in Seward. So, all in all, not bad! I believe we have the talent here to run a State Oil Company.
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Landlords are just like everyone else -- wanting more money in their pocket. Just look how governments are raising revenues in every way they can possibly think of and get away with. Many of these increases directly affect the cost of housing. If you think about it, the real landlords are government employees, and m...
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And ARCO did it on their own dime; not welfare checks from the state. If the current oil companies were making a $100 dollars on every barrel they would still be whining that the state should pay their production costs - that's what they do.
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Ooooh, doubting Thomas you are, Tobochs. Wonder what your excuse will be when you're standing at the Pearly Gates expecting to walk in.
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When The BIG ONE comes, City Hall will be the least of my worries. Politicians, they like to ensure their own safety. The candidates will say whatever the people want to hear until they take office. If you want real leadership in Eugene, write in your vote for JadedJade. I'll govern with input from my fellow posters.
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Planned Parenthood spoke in one of my classrooms years ago. They didn't mention abortion. They did teach kids about their bodies and how to not get pregnant. They are NOT marketing for abortions. That is a myth and Minnery is slandering an amazing organization.
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Catatonic, I'd love to hear you say that in person. You are ignorant and to read what you deem humorous makes me wonder what kind of empty and pathetic life you live. Was it your upbringing? Or lack of? Who gets the malnourished credit here?....
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I hope that this guy meets Bubba and that Bubba is, shall we say, "famished"?
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Donkel, your sniveling and begging are getting tiresome. Are you even IN Alaska right now? How about letting us Alaskans mind our own business?
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Because the majors had the cash reserves to "shotgun" the oil fields ... while the minors had to pick their shots ... and so far, the odds haven't favored the minors.
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From the comments, it seems like those who oppose what is stated in this opinion piece think that sex education can only be taught by Planned Parenthood and that supporters of abstinence-based programs (or at least wait-until-marriage or wait-until-adulthood) don't/can't/won't teach sex education. I think we need to c...
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Byeeee Caelus! Let the door give you a nice smack on the way out.
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I'm still mixed about this BUT consider: When I attended UAF (72-77)and lived in the dorms we were supposed to keep our guns in a locker in the basement of one dorm. We had to find an authority to access that locker and check our guns in and out. It was hard to find that person. So it ended up the rule was totally igno...
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This is a total waste of money. The Denali Park is so over regulated that it does not fit in any form or fashion great out of door experiences for Alaskans. It needs four wheel roads for us old people and more. I won't waste my precious remaining years visiting that government run institution.
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The state is already devastated ... HB-247 will change little of significance. Matter of fact, it is "too little, too late".
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The demonizing of PPH is pathetic...by people who seem to know next to nothing about what it is they do.... If anyone wants to see some nasty abortion providers, go ahead and outlaw it....
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Yessss!!!
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Yes it is true that Alaska men lost their jobs; jobs paid by state oil credits and for no return. What about all the other Alaska workers and their employers; should the state subsidize every Alaskan business by paying the workers salary and benefits if the company can't make a profit and has to shut down without the ...
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Take the political beam out of your own eye, BO, before trying to put a beam in thy fellow voters' eye. We all know that the mega giveaway is orchestrated by your Republican brethren. It looks and sounds like you enjoy giving $700 million in tax credits to Big Oil when the state coffers are drying up huh? Typical wi...
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Taking the PFD is going to hurt a lot of people! Get rid of all the extra people you don't need. Reduce pay on the rest! Look forward in time, and get the loto here. Stop all special projects that we don't need. We don't live in LA, or some other democrat city that's going to hell. Turn us around before its to late. No...
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go bears
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Great posts, Retired Chief!! An obvious starting point to changing the Big Oil relationship would be to remove direct oil industry employees (Meyer & Mecciche) from our legislature. Both of them have demonstrated a blatant lack of ethics for voting on recent oil tax legislation. They must go.
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Heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the deceased. I know the nearby communities will follow through as compassionate Alaskans and help out where they can. Thank you southeast Search and Rescue teams.
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Check out bikeindex.org - where the cycling community is taking this sort of protection into their own hands. It has a pretty good success rate so far by letting people register their bikes for free, and then giving stolen bike data to shops, riders, police, etc.
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This is great news. Malheur got a lot of press during the Cowboy Campout. I'm glad to know that something positive has come of it. Grab your binoculars and head on over!
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