“Beyond Calgary the trip became very mountainous, with far fewer chargers. How did the EV handle the mountainous roads? How was it possible to charge on the famously remote and infrastructure-scarce Alaska Highway?”
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One of the benefits of ranked choice voting is that the power of extremists to wield power over other Alaskans has been greatly reduced. Some in the Alaska Republican Party don’t know it yet, happily censuring their way to oblivion and alienating their neighbors.
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Gov Mike Dunleavy and Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor, who love to file lawsuits against the federal government, continue to stay silent about the proposed Kroger/Albertson’s merger, the economic impact on hundreds of thousands of Alaskans and what this would mean for food security across the state. Dunleavy campaigned on “food security,” using it as an empty feel-good phrase that required no real action on his part.
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The Seattle office of the Environmental Protection Agency says the proposed Pebble Mine would create “unacceptable adverse effects” on salmon fishery streams that feed Bristol Bay.
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Dave Carter, a retired lawyer in Anchorage, wants Alaskans to watch “The Social Dilemma’ on Netflix, a 2020 documentary-drama hybrid that premiered at Sundance. Having watched the film twice, I agree that this is a worthy and timely crusade. Drowning in social media, we have no idea what it is doing to us and our children.
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The good thing for 2023 is that Mike Shower, Shelley Hughes and Robb Myers will be nowhere near a position of power in making decisions on the state budget. The rest of the state Senate—17 Democrats and Republicans—are far more capable of handling state finances than these three.
Read MoreSo far, Mary Vought has collected more than $100,000 from the state. From July 29 to Oct. 31, she received more than $20,000, according to the state online checkbook. I suspect she is either writing columns under his name and pitching them to national publications or trying to get columns created by the Dunleavy PR machine in print.
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At least two of the state employees who promoted Dunleavy during the campaign as part of their state employment—Dave Stieren and Andrew Jensen—collected raises during the campaign year, according to state employment figures as of the end of October.
Read MoreThe three Republicans who refuse to be part of the organization, Mike Shower, Shelley Hughes and Robb Myers responded with whining, moaning and groaning. The claim by this disgruntled trio that Republicans who joined the organization have betrayed or defied the voters is nonsense.
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•The claim that the $25 billion corporate merger of the companies that own Fred Meyer and Safeway will lead to more choices, higher employee wages and lower costs for consumers is laughable for Alaskans. What is Dunleavy’s Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor saying about it? Nothing.
Read MoreThe transportation department denies its partnership with Kinross, of course, but until Gov. Mike Dunleavy, transportation commissioner Ryan Anderson and his staff end their studied passivity, the state is abrogating its duty to Alaskans in failing to deal with public safety questions, costs and the impact of the trucking plan on other drivers.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Mary Peltola, who each had the most first-place votes in their contests, cemented their victories Wednesday through ranked choice voting.
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Preacher Kelly Tshibaka, who lied throughout her campaign for the U.S. Senate, is still at it.
Tshibaka appeared again on extremist Steve Bannon’s podcast and said nothing as he claimed to her that the final Alaska vote count is being illegally manipulated, claiming the “Murkowski machine” is calling the shots.
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“In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.”
When he said that, Vin Scully was referring to the 1988 World Series home run by Kirk Gibson, but his memorable line fits the improbable and impossible saga of Mary Pelota’s rise to Congress.
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The Daily News-Miner weekend coverage of Aaron Lojewski’s decision to dump the Climate Change Action Committee swallows his claim—without any scrutiny—that this was a reasonable action. Lojewski’s action was not at all reasonable, though he is trying to pass off his sneaky behavior as the work of an enlightened leader.
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From him I learned not to be intimated by the pomposity of poseurs who could not stop bragging about their rigorous intellectual pedigrees. I learned the simple truth that knowing and loving the literature was what was important in being a writer and a scholar.—Terrence Cole
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Nat Herz, one of the top young journalists in Alaska, has started a newsletter that is worth your attention and financial support. His latest post at Northern Journal is about the pending nature gas shortage in Cook Inlet, a prospect that has enormous implications for Southcentral Alaska and Fairbanks. We’ve seen this problem before and no one has an easy answer. As Yogi Berra either did or did not say, “It’s like deja vu all over again.
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Aaron Lojewski says he dumped the members of the Fairbanks assembly Climate Change Action Committee right after he was named presiding officer of the assembly because he didn’t approve of draft recommendations under review by the committee. His story doesn’t add up.
Read MoreIt’s a right-wing grandstanding ploy led by Tammie Wilson and Barbara Haney, who claim they want to save about $40,000 in public funds. Both Wilson and Haney, anti-government zealots, are happy to be drawing state paychecks.
Read MoreA right-wing campaign group backed by Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and his wife that took cheap shots and lied about a handful of state candidates reports a $22,000 from an LLC that was involuntarily dissolved in 2021 by the state.
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