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Showing posts with label Alaska legislature 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska legislature 2011. Show all posts
Friday, April 01, 2011

April Fools: Chenault, Costello, Dick, Fairclough, Feige, Foster, Gatto, Hawker, Johansen, Johnson, Keller, Lynn, Millett, Munoz, Olson, Pruitt, Saddler, Stoltze, Thomas, Thompson, P. Wilson, T. Wilson

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These are the Alaska House members who voted yesterday to give some of the largest corporations in the world about $2 billion a year in hope...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

House Finance Public Hearing on Governor's Oil Tax Bill HB 110 - Notes from Anchorage LIO

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The meeting began at 5pm and people testified from, maybe, 5:15 until 8. My fingers are exhausted, my eyes drooping. I thought I'd try...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Iditarod Winner Is In - Next Event Redistricting The Legislature

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The Iditarod winners have crossed the finish line in Nome today. Kotzebue's John Baker, an Alaska Native, won in record time. He was ...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

What Happens at Energy Council? Here's Rep. Berta Gardner's Take

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About 28 Alaskan legislators went to DC for the "Energy Council" Conference in Washington DC last week. I did a short post on thi...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Todd Poage on Tok School Biomass Project

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I've said this many times, but once again, if you hang around the State Capitol and talk to folks, you'll meet lots of interesting p...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

New Hampshire Bill Would Make TSA Patdowns Sexual Assault

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I've been reading so much stuff on the TSA 'enhanced Pat-Down" (enhanced is supposed to mean made better, isn't it?) that m...
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Alaska State Rep. Pete Petersen on Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary

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This past week, March 1, 2011 to be exact, marked the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy signing into law the US Peace Corps.  There is a ...
Friday, March 04, 2011

One Person Making a Difference - The Iron Dog and Suicide Prevention in Rural Alaska

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There are so many issues to write about here in Juneau when you wander around the Capitol.  It's hard to know where to start and how to ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

"It's like being a 5 year old trying to catch up . . ." New Rep. Alan Dick

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I met new District 6 (Interior Alaska north of Fairbanks) representative Alan Dick today and asked him what it is like getting started in Ju...

Capitol's Quiet - Lawmakers at Energy Council in DC

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That's from one of the many tv monitors scrolling the meeting schedules in the Capitol. BASIS - the Legislative website - tells it m...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Keeping Track of Education in the Legislature with Shana Crondahl

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I've been getting comments from Shana Crondahl for a while now on this blog - particularly last year when I was in Juneau.  So I thought...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

Cold Wind, Overlapping Roles, University Boosters Caucus, Blogging

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I saw on BASIS that the new UAA Chancellor Tom Case was going to be in Juneau today. (S)UNIVERSITY BOOSTERS CAUCUS OTHER COMMITTEE * F...