Telling people to shut the f*ck up and calling them ignorant is the lefty version of civility here I guess.   Lots of us have read Gramsci, and the writings of the Frankfort School, and, yes, Saul Alinsky; we understand the communist march through the institutions.   Into the 50s progressive was a synonym for communist, and a "progressive person" was a trusted fellow traveler but in a position where s/he couldn't be an open, card-carrying member of the Party.  Liberal became the substitute for use in polite company during the Cold War years until failed liberal policies made liberal a pejorative as well.   The government schools had done a good enough job of revising and air-brushing history that by the 90s it was felt safe to go back to the term progressive.   Some of us do know history and know that you've exposed yourself as either ignorant or a liar, but I'm confident you just think of yourself as "educated."


Walker also paid his friend (see: Alaska Gov. Walker's administration signs $275-an-hour contract with former attorney general)  to come up with a plan to use our permanent fund to buy and sell oil tax credits.  The plan would enable small oil companies who pay no tax to sell tax credits to larger companies so they could pay no tax.
http://www.adn.com/business-economy/2016/09/01/administration-to-ask-permanent-fund-to-consider-investing-in-oil-tax-credits/

Does this sound like Walker is trying to fix our budget problems to you?


"If someone believes something is true it is not a lie." And you just kind of know when someone, like Trump, sincerely believes what he is saying and isn't lying? Wow. Impressive.

Please try to use this superpower for the betterment of humanity, greg. You have an obligation.


I'm a transcelebrity then - with the cool, hip descriptor label, trans-celeb


Interesting idea, but a shame it is so poorly written and hard to imagine how the time was spent.


Will there be added dedicated parking for these stations so people can park and ride?  Or will they be parking their cars in existing store parking lots subject to towing?

It's a good start but still too many stations.  It would be good to add an express service on top of that serving limited stations.  I imagine the Boeing Plant station will be a destination for many.

Is Boeing contributing anything to this?  Especially land and funding for the station at their location?  Big employers should be required to contribute to mass transit solutions for their workers.  Microsoft set a good example with their Connector service!

w.r.t the 164th street station concern, they need to build the station closer to where the people and the parking will be.  There are new apartment complexes going in nearer to where the alternate suggestion was made and also possible land for a parking garage for a park and ride.  An intersection can be put there with a shoulder bus stop.


You are wrong about the courts, one has to take criminals there sins the police and NPA will not. You are right about grassroots activism.


Is anyone in the Legislature watching market pricing for higher education and examining how this will affect future UAA and UAF enrollment (and revenues)?  As a father with 4 kids who will enter the higher education somewhere within the next 7 years, cutting out the performance scholarship, adding on a 10-15% tuition hike and taking into account higher costs for room/board and everything else in Alaska....  UAA and UAF don't look very competitive.  I know we have a fiscal gap, but fortunately unlike most states, we do have many options to address it (and oil prices will not stay where they are in the longer term).  The cuts the Legislature is contemplating look to me like cutting a quarter now to lose a $1 in the future, through declining enrollment.  Like it or not, running a university is a business, and a business can't cut it's way to prosperity.


Peggy and the "current Economist"
could spend some time pondering on

religious persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt


Even without government support or interest, there is still plenty of room to grow the new energy economy. There's plenty of space for companies to grow and expand into energy efficiency, storage, and production for business and homeowner clients. Fleet vehicles would be an obvious place to start with EVs, and there are already companies in SA that do EV conversions on a small scale. Globally, the bulk of solar installers are small companies. Biggest cost of business is customer aquisition, so they need more than a website. Without net metering policies, the most likely solar customers are businesses looking to cut their electricity bill during office hours. Cold chain is another area where existing technologies (thermal ice storage) can get a quick ROI. I got really frustrated when I read about a company getting R11m from the IDC to do a *feasibility* study for flow batteries. Why not *build* the damn things? For R11m you could start prototyping, learn, and get some investors in.


All fired FBI Director Comey did yesterday was add to the mountain of evidence he is weak, confused, makes the FBI look bad and is guilty of election tampering.


Depriving our Keiki's air conditioners in their classrooms too. "smh"


yes it is


"Vinis said it’s unacceptable to harass anyone on the basis of their race, gender and religious beliefs."

Why don't Vinis and her cuddle buddies ever simply end that sentence with "anyone"? As she emphasized to the Spanish-speakers, everyone is supposed to feel welcome.


Im not sure why we bother to elect politicians anymore , we are governed by the SCC. Every decision, development etc. ends up in their hands.


Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.

Right in the Qur'an is: the permission to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims

(8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one's true goals (3:54), and

the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).

Are death-threats legal? NO.
Is extortion legal? NO.
Is slavery legal? NO.
Is murder legal? NO.
Is rape legal? NO.

<b>THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!</b>

Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!

Everything muslims pretend to see as "holy" is already a crime!

So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!


Juries have a way of getting things right most of the time as they appear to have in this case.


They don't care about deficits. It all makes sense when you look at it through the extremist lens of far-right libertarians.

Basically, they want to cut taxes without filling in for revenues. They want to force massive cuts by intentionally causing a funding shortfall; thus, reducing the size of government. They don't really care who it hurts in the process or what quality of life those services provide for most Americans. Things like parks, roads, clean water, etc are all something better managed by private owners - government is the enemy & their fix is to prove it doesn't work through deliberate sabotage.

It's a perverse way of thinking, but to some of the more gullible and idealistic among us it's the perfect solution. Who cares about collateral damage when they have a chance to start building their utopia on the altar of Ayn Rand's books?


My topic was how worker unions have helped raise the living standard for millions of working-class Americans.  Cost of government services is another subject.  Would you also call increased wages for blue collar workers the cause for higher costs of everything we buy?  Manufacturers like to talk about wages when they raise prices, and most would like to bust unions.


"this election used fingerprint scanners that made it nearly impossible for someone to vote twice"

unless you have sac full of fingers


Obviously no one "likes" your posts. Oh wait a sec, there is one!


You have outdone yourself this time, Richard, the deep disgust you feel for the status quo oozing out onto your pages, and helping us think a little differently. Thank you for that. Thank you also for upping the ante of the peanut gallery. Don't know if you've noticed,  but the standard of comments rise dramatically, inspired by none other than your impressive reports. Shows you what "good examples" are capable of. Zuma should take note.

On second thoughts, maybe he shouldn't...

I couldn't agree more - state capture will always be found at the intersect between Business and State. And I agree fully that the snakes should be grabbed by the tail and swung into hostile space 2000 meters above ground. But will it change things? Because the entire congregation of snake-charming invertebrates (read the capitalist world) are singing of the same hymn sheet.


The GOP should just let Obamacare roll on, untouched...and let it die and collapse on its own weight.

It's already failing.

Hang it around the former king.


And by the way, they capped their monetary offer at $1,000.   Clearly it was not enough and they should have offered more.   I've seen Delta offer $1,500 and even $1,800 for domestic flights in a few cases.   That is what should have happen.

The United CEO is toast.  I give him a month at best - then he'll be dragged from his office.   I sure hope someone has a camera for that episode. :)


Buick is an overpriced rental car brand. Period.


Homemade bombs aren't used to kill convenience store clerks in two-bit robberies.  Gangs and drug dealers don't pack homemade bombs.  Children don't accidentally kill themselves or others with homemade bombs.  Suicides don't do with with homemade bombs.  Domestic murders aren't commit with homemade bombs.

Get the point?


Thanks to Ian Lind for a straightforward, clear explanation.

Kale Gumapac was a homeowner whose property was foreclosed after he failed to pay his mortgage, which he did because of reliance on Sai's theory about illegal occupation of Hawaii by U.S. and lack of jurisdiction by federal or (puppet regime) state courts.  Sai and Gumapac have had numerous joint appearances on TV podcasts.  Sai has been causing a lot of pain to a lot of people for more than 20 years as he pushes his absurd historical and legal theories, and Kaiama has been engaging in abuse of legal process in support of Sai.  It's long past time for the Supreme Court to rein them in.  For in-depth explanation of what's going on, see webpages
"Keanu Sai's Hawaiian history fantasies" at
http://www.angelfire.com/big09/SaiFantasiesSwissDipl111113.html
and
"The latest nonsense from Keanu Sai (April 2015)" at
http://www.angelfire.com/big09/SaiSwissTreaty1864WarCrimes.html


Trump loves the poorly educated...


Wow you sound as if as long as they no about all the hand outs their good to go, it doesn't matter that they don't work or can be benifical to society as a whole.


I understand crooks aren't always criminal masterminds, but I've never understood the logic in intruders breaking in to homes in the middle of the night when they know residents are likely home.  There are plenty of homes left unattended throughout the day when folk are at work.  It just never makes sense to me that they would risk being shot and/or taking human life themselves in the name of robbery.  Maybe I'm trying to apply reason where none exists.  Regardless, I live in this neighborhood and it's truly worrying that even when you have the protection of firearms, you can still be outnumbered and outgunned in what should be your safe haven from the crazies of this world.


Just remember folks, this is about power.  Groups such as the Human Rights crowd  have it and will not relinquish it, no matter how tenuous their grasp on reality is.  What they don't seem to want to address is that racist sentiment exists within each cultural/ethnic group.  As noted by some comments here, different groups express it in different ways, but it is still profiling/racism.  However, according to the 'higher purpose' people, it is only negative when Caucasians are involved.  Regardless, resign yourselves to the fact that you will never make them happy.  The key words being; racist, colonialism, settler mentality, and of course, misogynistic.


guantanamo,

Yes, it would. But how would Alec Baldwin and SNL top a bona fide Trump tantrum?


The donkeys were taken.


Then again, there was the $670K+ that the Steelworkers union donated to the NDP, in addition to staff donations in kind.


Extended family?  They are connected by first lineages.  C'mon wake up Wiliki, you are better than that!


Alaskan mosquitoes have not proven to be good vectors for disease. Back during the Pipeline, there were Southerners worried about yellow fever and malaria because of all the mosquitoes here. Oh, how they would panic about it. But UAF studied it extensively and Alaskans mosquitoes are mainly just annoying -- although they can make you sick from the bites alone if you get enough of them.

The thing is, the actual science of Zika has not be determined. That mosquito species also carries yellow fever, dengue and malaria (Alaskan mosquitoes are a different species). It was fought back to near extinction in the southern US and Caribbean in the 50s and 60s. Then we outlawed DTD and now it's back. Zika is worrying, the other diseases are deadly. Why weren't we worried about the Aedes earlier when deadly diseases were the problem?

I suspect it's all media hype. The current thing to keep us in the government's thrall. The sky is falling ... the sky is falling ...


"Three provinces" not "The provinces"


The clown car is reving up for anothet spin around Juneau this year...


True, but good enough for me. Tried to give Boots a good rebuttal on a different post, but his/her rebuttal didn't make sense with no substance or facts to back it up.


I'm thinking you never made it out of grade school. Keep drinking your yellow water buddy.


Umm......I seem to remember another American president who turned up the rhetoric on the Soviet Union, a far bigger threat than North Korea.  The press at the time said he was crazy and that nuclear war was imminent.  The exact opposite happened.


From all these comments it appears there are 2 types of people posting here:
Those that want to be left alone, and those that want their personal values pushed onto those that just want to be left alone.


The word Canadian is already used for everybody who is Canadian, which includes aboriginal people and new citizens who are immigrants.

Settler is just a word for non-aboriginal Canadians who were born here.  That's the only way I've seen it used.  Why do you think it's a derogatory term?


There is no "white bias", that just reflects our country's historical origins. Just as the fact we speak English rather than Ukrainian, Italian Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, etc. is a result of the historical origins of the country, and isn't an indication of "bias" against those languages.


The more they give freebees the more the problem increases. Try better enforcement. Where is the HPD homeless task force.


"If we do that, we buy many years on our reserves,..."even if that leaves a significant deficit." he ( Senator Kelly) said.

Don`t be fooled Alaskans, that just means he wants more cuts, and we spend our savings a little slower that`s all.
It`s still kicking the can down the road, but this time "kicking Kelly`s can" a little FARTHER down the road,  even as we go into SB21 "oil-credits-and-subsidies-forever" hell!  That`s If the conflicted and illegally gerrymandered State Senate Majority has any say in it.


And one-third of the population can be considered far, hard left-wing extremists.  So yes, Democrats (having swung to the fascist left) should be very concerned.  Perhaps THEY will be motivated to swing back to the more reasonable middle after 7 years of embarrassing losses.


We've waited for years for you clowns to come up with something, anything...but nothing has been found.


we have to pay for it ourselves. we have to work for it ourselves.


Mr. Buck is correct...
Sad thing is...no big loss...


You did catch the part in the story where the police said they only located one person in the vehicle?  Kind of hard to charge the other person involved if you don't know who they are yet, I'd think.


Trump will hang on for another year or so then resign or be impeached


"As any substantial award would have done, the Khadr settlement establishes an incentive for others to take serious risks (i.e. joining terrorist organizations abroad)..."

Several commentators, including myself, have raised the obvious solution which would eliminate incentives, liabilities, etc.:  When Canadians choose to leave the country to kill our troops and our allies, then by default they should lose their citizenship, period.  You can't fight against the flag and then hide behind its protections.  We're idiots for even having allowed it.

So far, I have not seen one cogent counter-argument to this suggestion.  I see a lot of blaming of previous governments and lectures about the constitutional rights of our citizens.  But these arguments would be moot had the Kadrs lost their citizenship when they left the country to pursue jihad against us.

If we could learn from this whole experience and make this one change, I'd say it might have been worth the $10.5 million.


But why stay within an organization he doesn't believe in and finds corrupt?

For example lets say he joined to serve the army or work at Lockheed and Martin, becomes disenchanted with it, decides to be a pacifist, where is the logic of a pacifist staying in the army?

Another example someone joins the communist party, lives as a capitalist and dislikes communism but refuses to dissociate himself as a communist despite his disdain for the ideology.

A guy gets a job with British petroleum or shell, decides he cares about the environment

Or a man joins an organization, finds out they are a self serving, exclusive enclave of hypocrites, why stay?

I don't get it, I don't get why someone who dislikes X and disbeliefs Y would stay within a group that promotes X and believes Y.

It has nothing to do with not being a robot, it seems hypocritical to me.  It has more to do with actually living in regards to your beliefs and not compromising.   Isn't that the definition of hypocrisy?


Logic and reason are useless. It's obvious that Stolen Valor is off his meds today.


If this moves television networks away from over-the-air broadcasting in favor of cable/satellite/internet distribution (and freeing up useful spectrum in the process) so much the better.


Barytom What does this mean? Are you implying that a picture publicly arranged nearly 14 years ago is the same as a person talking to the full American government omitting reporting meeting with the Russian ambassador privately when asked if he met with any Russian officials? If this is not blatant trump behaviour I don't know what is.


Dysfunctional family with a capital D, really sad and they are  probably in denial at that, which is truly sad


You could charge anyone e for anything but you would lose this one. Not sure if it's understanding  or hearing what you want to hear but a few of you are very lost with this.


Sorry. Now it's stuck in your head, too.


I don't like opera; especially when the language used is other than one I understand. As to my musical preferences: Sirius XM Radio Channel 58 - Prime Country. (I'm not requiring or requesting that anyone else like or support it!)
And since when are we in operatic competition with Astoria. Let the Astorians do as they will and the Eugenians do as they will. If there's too small a market for opera in Eugene, take it elsewhere.


The Spanish people are far too politicized. That's why they had a civil war and ended up with a dictator. They're too overly complicated and haughty-taughty high minded to see the plain truth.
Just get on with living together and tolerating each other. Spain's a beautiful country. The people spoil it.


Prime Minister Trudeau is doing what no other Prime Minister in a century had done: returning the Senate to its original purpose and goals.

The Senate has a noble purpose and it can now assume its intended place as a brake on House excesses and as a watchdog on the government.

Well done, sir.


She refused to carry out her duties to the President and her country.  She deserved to be fired.  End of discussion.  Period.   Trump is not taking any sh!*  from these employees.


uhhh "Hillary" might be a reason.  She wants to shut down oil and gas (our main industry in Alaska), raise taxes, keep borders open, keep growth at 1% by continuing Obamas policies, expand Obamacare.  Trump wins on the issues, but agree he is his own worst enemy


The US export to China has been growing 468 percent over the last decade. China already is the world’s largest auto market. American big three autos sell more cars in mainland China than in the US. Apple, Boeing, agricultural producers and many many others, their largest market is not in the US but in China. The US exports more than 160 billion dollars of goods to China each year. In addition, the US profits 150 billion dollars annually from Chinese service sector( not take into account in trade figures). Besides all above, Chinese tourists spent 25 billion US dollars, Chinese students and Chinese investors spent 110 billion in the US just in 2015. The trade war can contribute 10 million job losses in the US. The factories, department stores and other sectors will also have to slow or shut down or mass layoff due to a lack of parts and components cross the country. China can also dump the US bounds in the open international market. The US can slip into recession for decades to come


Leitch did not object to refugees receiving medical care - she objected to refugees receiving extra medical care, over and above what Canadian citizens receive. Trudeau supported asbestos exports. Leitch did not support "charities" which fought poverty she would deny support to such "charities" as Suzuki's foundation. You distort facts hence are part of the "fake news" problem.


"How about you and the govt. stay out of my healthcare choices (and wallet)?"

Are you on Medicare?

If not, will you accept Medicare when you turn 65?

If the answer to either in "Yes", you are the rankest of hypocrites.


Goofball, this is Russia being Russia. Thy have been doing this sine the 60s. To date we have not shot one of them down. Curious tho, what would you have trump do?


What we really have here is a communication problem. I've been in the hi-tech industry for just over 20 years and I can count on my right hand the number of people who can explain a concept that is clear, concise and concrete; for example, the basic ideas behind the Calculus ( the mathematics of motion and change ) are simple to understand. But what happens at university is almost as bad as what now is happening in the public school system: you have people there who can NOT explain or describe fundamental concepts.


Ignorance is truly bliss...
I'm sorry, but praying and seeking God before writing this article did not take part.
It seems to me the separation of church and state are needed more than ever from this article,  and that's a shame that this needs to be said, truth is if prayer had of stayed schools,  we probably wouldn't have had the mess that's presently in the white house,
Honestly if we have to get biblical..then let's think of it this way, we had 8years of prosperity and now a few years of famine. But I digress, this article wasn't thought out or prayed out from my opinion.

I think this article sums it up better
https://amp.ft.com/content/b41d0ee6-1e96-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c


How can you say BOTH parts to be calm ? When it's China that won't step up to the plate and batten down the hatch on North Korea,
Use proper reporting of the truth, Not explaining a situation that belongs to someone else as the problem,
China your the number one problem , and North Korea as the second or on an equal basis
This would never have happened had you China took a strong stance against any build up of nuclear arms,
How blind to you want to think people are. Stop putting false lies out !


Saeed Kosravi was a terrible employee.  His accusations are lies that are attempting to smear a highly reputable person in Mr. Nozza.  Saeed Kosravi has manufactured this in an attempt to extort money from Hawaiian Telcom.  Saeed Kosravi was not a team player but a lone wolf who refused to engage his colleagues or serve customers.   Saeed Kosravi lacked the people skills necessary to foster in his position.  Saeed Kosravi talks about getting promoted and raises under his previous boss.  This is because he was able to hide and his previous boss was no better than he was.  Mr. Nozza lifts and gives opportunity to those who deserve it and Saeed Kosravi was given multiple opportunities and failed.  Saeed Kosravi got what he deserved based on his inadequate work ethic and inability to perform at his position.  Good luck Saeed Kosravi, you will need it.  I am eager to see what employer would be willing to hire you after this disgrace to the hard working people in our industry.


Indeed.


what democrat media? what we get is what the neo con owned news media allows us to hear. We get 30 second news bites that do not explain what is behind them, only for or against, and the corporate entities in fineprint. we get accused of the "librul news media", whereas it is neo con owned. For the easily led, I suggest typing "Study links low intelligence and low IQ to conservatism and prejudice"


No they can't and that is not what the source of this story is arguing.  Wow.  You are really not in the loop.


That's certainly an interesting story RCK, but the appeal to authority to an unnamed Russian hydrologist regarding climate science is a bit of a stretch no? If I told you I had an interesting theory on bacterial evolution that a geologist in Uzbekistan agreed with, how much weight would you put in that versus peer reviewed studies?


"""""""""But, no matter what you think of this team, they are not that bad."""""  Glass 1/2 full or 1./2 MT,  They are not good... By all means..


Reality, with Kerry v. Din 2015?  June 15 1215 or June 15 2015. "Pointless?" "The Due process clause has its origins in the Magna Carta...but by the lawful judgement of his peers...Edward Coke, whose Institutes "were read in the American Colonies by virtually every student of law,"..throughy described the scope of interests that could be deprived pursuant to "the law of the land."...1 Coke, supra, at 46-48. Blackstone's description of the rights protected by Magna Carta is similar. 1 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 125 (1769). Second, the "personal liberty of individuals "consist[ed] in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing ones person to whatsoever place ones own inclination may direct;..While one may... thrown in jail, or even executed so long as proper procedures are followed...The dissent fails to cit a single case supporting its novel theory of implied non fundamental rights."
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1402_e29g.pdf


The mark of a great country is that it will follow the principles it stands for, even when doing so is brutally hard. This apology and compensation is clear evidence that Canada will redress a wrong done to a citizen, even when doing so is politically unpopular. That puts Canada at the pinnacle of the world's nations. We will do the right-but-difficult thing, rather than give in to mob-rule, vengeance and hate.  Very encouraging!


Your observations are 100% on target!   Even in ethnic parishes which contributed mightily to the cultural identity of youth, as they did for their parents and grandparents et al.  But some in the "younger, awkward generation" took it upon themselves to seek their adult identity in the broader culture.  And in most cases, parents understand and keep communication open.


That's just what we need more overpopulation Especially if they are like you. What religion are you the first church of I hate everybody that's not just like me.


In other words, a life long well paid propagandist for the oil monopoly starting with Bechtel, the largest recipient of government contracts starting with Vietnam War, and expanding into the White House with its former management agents George Schultz and Casper Weinberger.  Thanks to its government feeding frenzy for decades, it is now the largest construction company in the world operating as a virtual monopoly for government contracting at all levels.  This author sold out early as one of the recipients of golden compensation from the invaders of Alaska.  Now, all of the current residents have to pony up to fix the system run as a oil monopoly controlling government and economy.  Now, the same miscreants invaded North Dakota with the same result of an overthrow of the governing process.  Time for a Revolution.


DGRO is so big (it has 450 holdings) that it basically tracks the S&P500.  Is it worth bothering to buy?


Well, why should I give any credibility to fanatics that insist the Base be kept open no matter what the impacts on the people that its supposed to protect or whether its even needed for so-called "national security?"


Bears would appear to be very curious and intelligent. As such, they would investigate anything out of the ordinary.


How did a call for raising the retirement age turn into a call for a general tax cut? Is that just the Fraser Institute's bias showing through?


Future buyers of condos lacking sprinklers will undoubtedly discount the value of those condos to reflect that fact, and conversely current owners of those units will achieve an economic benefit from their installation. If public money is to be used to pay for improvements to privately owned buildings, then the public must be assured that a mechanism is in place to recapture that increase in value when those condos are sold in the future. Otherwise current owners will be receiving a windfall profit because the public has paid to remedy their lack of foresight.


You've been smoking with the Bundy gang. The reality based universe laughs at you.


I do believe Hawaii's high rate of student bullying stem from the ongoing political issue of the U.S. Federal Government; the stance-contention of an illegal government foisted on the Kanaka people. Their resentment of the Federal government spills over to descendants of the missionary and provisional families - the imported migrant worker descendants - the newly arrived malihini white or haole - the migrating Micronesians! Their resentment is from being displaced in land - employment opportunities - housing availability - language-cultural displacement...seeing the non-kanaka better off or using-taking resources away from the host kanaka culture. There is little appreciation of any advancements-developments that has taken place since the 1900's for the enforced change wrought upon their islands, putting the kanaka people at a disadvantage in their own archipelago country. Their resentment is expressed daily through the synergistic-psychological transference to the viewed outsider.


Verbatim Donald Trump talking points. This is Canada. We are not Dehumanists, quite the opposite. We know there is war and rampant humanitarian crisis overseas, coupled with the mass roundups in the States by an unbalanced and unpredictable Presidential power. One of his favorites words is Disaster. Canada knows how to handle disasters, natural and man made. It's not by jailing victims of disaster.


The author should recuse himself from this subject since he had/has a vested interest that doesn't allow himself to clearly see the opinions of the other side. He was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission that oversees monuments of U.S. war dead.


FYI There is NO connection whatsoever between the bar in Dutch Harbor and Stormy Stutes, check your facts before posting


OK.  THAT's IT!!
Trump is breaking up Journey.
Get.  Him.  OUTTA THERE!


What does this have to do with the ID change for the bases?


It amazes me that anyone would get their news from Facebook. However, it is extremely hard to know what is true in the internet age. Instead of getting more in-depth, better quality information, we just get superficial information and simplistic views. At the end of the day, I doubt either candidate gained an advantage from all the mis-information available.


The school is pushing s political agenda against the confederate battle flag that obama started!

Free speech includes hate speech but this is not even hate speech it's about speaking out against big government by posing with the rebel flag as it stands for that fight against over bearing government!


Its good to point out that violence kills very real people, shatters families, creates fear in some, loathing in others.  Comparing one bad policy to another doesn't really have much impact, especially when one party, Obama, has left the room.

A more interesting story would be interviewing those who have been victims of American violence.   Our national obsession with war games requires us to dehumanize our victims.    We expect 'morality' in others but fail to see the transgression in our own nation.

I oppose  religious terrorism, in all it's forms, but we have to put faces on those that are simply victims who happen to be living in the wrong place.  Guilt free killing might allow us to puff up nationally but that decision to kill should be taken only with the most serious of consideration of the lives that will be stolen from wars victims.   I think I understand the need for military action, but I do not celebrate, take trophies, or dance on the graves of those who die.


I agree we cannot cut our way to a balanced budget. Except for one line item: The PFD. How interesting and coincidental? that the money raised from the proposed income tax is almost enough to fund the dividend payout. I am not opposed to an income tax except if they continue the dividend. Funny thing is though we don't need a broad based tax except to continue funding the dividend.


There are no more firearms available now then in the 40s, 50s or 60. In fact back then we could order them in the mail to come direct to our homes.


What a whining wanker. In the Navy they used this policy to keep us in line. If one person continued to screw up, the whole barracks was punished. This led to some nocturnal blanket parties to get the jerk who caused the problem to straighten up. It worked. Maybe Mr. Snowflake should be on CNN's ass along with the other Fake News outlets. Until the MSNBCs of the country start playing fair, this kind of treatment will continue.


"What a maroon!"


Is there anyone who CARES what Schatz thinks ???  He needs to return to being the non-entity that he always has been. BACK to your hole, little worm, and PLEASE....be quiet.


If what I am asking for, the incident reports for the last three years to be published online, is benign than wouldn't that go a long way to dispelling the concerns regarding the homeless at the library?Isn't there a problem with the fact that, as you say, 'anyone' can find scary stories about the homeless?  The 'homeless' encompasses people that are just down on their luck, but also includes violent ex cons, sex offenders, drug addicts, the inebriated and the severely mentally ill.  You cannot pretend mixing that population with kids, teens and the elderly isn't a receipe for disaster and a lawsuit to bankrupt the city.


As disgusted as I am by the lewed comments and behavior of he whose name I won't type, it is those issues the 95 year old WW II veteran lists that frighten me the most. Please Alaskans, vote and not for this creatin.


Trump and his merry band of plutocrats are ill equipped to govern because running a country is not like being the CEO of a corporation. It’s important to remember that government is not a business. The purpose of government is not to show a profit. It is to achieve the common good.
Trump and his cabinet are political anarchists. They are carting boxes of explosives into government agencies to blow up any program that promotes the common good and impedes corporate profit.
Trump needs to learn about what it means to lead a democracy.


Word.


Would you say the same of Madonna or Steve Taylor  and their sexual proclivities, fetishes and desires?   Of course . That  is why you would go see them.


The ADN is read more statewide because it is the only source of news available to those without internet. Otherwise in Anchorage, it is known as a Liberal rag and really only read by Liberals in Anchorage. So pretty much any poll done in Anchorage is among Liberals anyways. The very same liberals who totally ignored every crooked and corrupt thing Hillary did and actually then blame her loss on Russian hackers. They say the Russians influenced the election but don't dare bring up the popular vote in the same sentence because if Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million votes, how exactly did the Russians influence the election in Trumps favor ?


Governor Dummy.


Maybe I missed it but have not read a cost estimate for NOHN and how they will cover the cost. Raise fees for services to their customers? I know when I see them they demand to be paid.


Torrents of drivel from right-wing media have now become torrents of drivel from the White House itself. It's all fun and games to make stuff up about Obama, until you actually get called on it. And shouldn't the President be getting his information from U.S intelligence agencies and not the TV? And not flapping his lips about every silly thing he hears?


How about instead of trying to tax people into making good decisions, you leave people alone to make their own choices. I disagree with the part of the article that claims people are unable to take responsibility for themselves due to lack of choice and information. My Wife and I eat healthy, and exercise regularly because we care about our health. We used to not care and as a result we started to get fat, so we made a choice to clean up our diet and we made the changes we needed for our health despite all the junk food advertising, and abundance of fast food in the city. In the case of young children, why isn’t anyone pointing our the obvious fact that it should be up to the parents to control what their child eats and how much junk food they consume, as well as teaching them good eating habits and encouraging regular exercise.  But, when it comes to adults people should be allowed to eat whatever they want, its a free country.


Nice comment...  Not. It is amazing how you think you know him so well. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today did you?
  Did him stating  people that do not want to help themselves are not his problem bother you that much you created a screen name for your rant?


conservatives are hypocrites.  They cannot cry nepotism cronyism and favoritism from one side of the mouth and from the other defend a system where the title of head of state is handed down from parent to offspring forever.


add Want2befree an carey9 to your chapter.


...that assumes you aren't moving schools, power lines and generation, water and sewer, roads, boardwalks, stores, fuel storage tanks, barge landings, runways, etc.  What you talk about has been done in the past by locals such as on Nelson island, but it's no longer just moving a one room cabin.

So you complain about the "Natives" but fine for Mat-Su, burn areas, earthquake, floods in urban areas? Most of us don't want to live in the Dickens society you seem to admire.


Well this 2nd Amendment talks about "a WELL REGULATED Militia"
So you have a right to own a gun... but this right can be regulated. A ban of Assault Weapons or semi-automatic weapons will obviously not infringe the 2nd amendment.


Keep making excuses and deflecting Sher, Europe is suffering from cultural regression as a result of "accommodating" a system of beliefs that is only common in uncivilized societies where free expression and gender equality are non-existent. Political Islam is a cancer.


The republicans don't care about the health and well being of the average American. These are the people who were enamoured by tRump and voted for him; many will be effected by this crazed knee jerk anti-health care vote. No doubt many of these law makers are wealthy enough to have private insurance and health coverage.

Please check out these links.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-asked-repeal-obamacare-republican-cancer-patient

https://thinkprogress.org/heres-how-many-people-could-die-every-year-if-obamacare-is-repealed-ae4bf3e100a2#.19nwooimd


Bill: The Dawgs are down two starting corners and an all Pac-12 left OT today against Rosen and UCLA - What do ya’ think?


Surely the serial bailouts of SAA are a series of "irrational decisions"? Is there no legal recourse here; can't the courts strike down a decision if it is irrational? If such a challenge to the rationality of Gigaba's decision could be - and were - made, Gigaba et al. would have to convince the court that we actually need a state owned national carrier. And they wouldn't succeed, because we don't.


True Story..... I really wonder why the brothers and their friends keep feeding the public with nonsense , do they honestly believe that even the loyal ANC voters will swallow this one


The United States military is not allowed to bear arms in the confines of the united states or it's territories, this is what a well trained and outfitted militia is for, according to the constitution.
The second amendment is what give's individual citizens this right.
The national guard, commanded by the general's appointed by the individual state's governor commands the only military arm allowed to bear arms on us soil.

Everybody needs to quit repeating the stupid thought that the second amendment is for hunting, it was another check and balance put in place to keep the federal government from becoming more powerful than the individual state's.
It also amazes me that people boast that the world is changing and they quickly dismiss and want to abandon the documents that allowed this to happen....
The US Constitution and The Bill of Rights please read them and congratulate our forefathers and thank those who have fought for or died for people to express their opinions like yours.


I like the way the put free speech in quotes, viz "free speech". That's their way of indicating that they think it is a bogus concept. Why do Canadians  tolerate their freedoms being constantly whittled away?


No problem ph907 and all those who say cut everything like to stand in line at the DMV for a couple of days if they are open.  Those state snow plowing can be reduced to once a doy on the Glenn and Seward Hwys.

I listen to these ideas from those who have no idea  what such cuts would do their lives and I just know how loud they will scream when its time for them to do without things they expect to be there when they need them.


I'm skeptical of this "guest commentary". How are we to believe that Mr. Wolff is truly paralyzed if he was able to type this letter?


The 'in persona Christi' stuff is the basis for much of the clericalism. It comes from the Vulgate translation of 2 Corinthians 2:10 which has 'in the person of Christ,' now better translated in the NABRE Bible on the Vatican and USCCB websites as 'in the presence of Christ.' I know of no valid basis for the idea that the priest is a Jesus. Of course we are all supposed to follow Jesus and be members of the Christ, but the priest is not more a member than anyone else, despite 'in persona Christi Capitis,' an idea that blossomed fairly recently historically. 'In persona" is not mentioned in the Baltimore Catechism. But the later supposedly progressive Vatican II documents are rife with this nonsense. Not to say the priest should not have authority. If he was selected or affirmed by his congregation, he would have even more authority. See #1548 in the Catechism for history of Aquinas and 'in persona.'


Key word 'potential'. Shell bet big on that potential and lost. Sen M. didn't do anything measurable to curtail the new regulations set by BOEM. Alaska arctic OCS is great because of the stability of the US but is not an option due to costs.


What a poor fit. We have chicken that we will be able to mix with coffee and doughnuts?


President Trump this is your first test, nuke em


".....the news anchor, who segues from introducing a story to rendering judgment on the characters within that story. "
-Elizabeth Rice Grossmann

This practice is so commonplace I thought it was acceptable communication. May we hear more from you?  Many thanks.


No.  This has to do with the pure bullying others who they do not find pure.  Why are you obsessed with Masses you do not attend?


Part of me would like nothing more than to see Trump and the republicans take health insurance away from the very Alaskans that voted to put them in office. But I can't get there.

In any case, I know a lot of people think Murkowski is going to play the reasonable / moderate conservative here and vote against this abomination of a bill due to its horrific effects on our state. But if you're one of those people you should dispel yourself of that notion. There is no such thing as a reasonable or moderate conservative anymore in this country. So after telling everyone how "troubled" or "concerned" she is about it, the sad reality is that lockstep Lisa is going to adhere to the conservative commandment of party before country and vote for this abomination of a bill so Trump and the republicans can get a "win".


McCarthy did the same thing to homosexuals and tried to ruin their reputations through exposure.  It is interesting you mentioned Murrow.  It was Murrow using television that destroyed McCarthy's reputation.   It was the equal time offered by Murrow where McCarthy destroyed his own reputation.  Instead of addressing a single one of Murrow's substantive allegations, McCarthy attacked Murrow.  In some ways McCarthy was both made and destroyed by the new emerging medium of television.

I see prosecutorial abuse as more similar to McCarthy than I do regular politics.  It is in criminal investigations and prosecutions that reputations are truly ruined.   I'm much happier letting the voters decide what to make of HRC and her shenanigans at the State Dept.  I cringe when Trump says she ought to be in jail.  He might be right, but it is for a court to decide. We don't throw our political adversaries in jail if and when we get elected. That is not America.


"export his weltanschauung to the Universal Church"

And that, of course would not, could not be clericalism, or an act of the 'dreaded' hierarchy, because the weltanschauung he is so generously exporting is soooo "progressive" (whatever that means," right....? I just love PC double standard.... 🙂


Art, Don't you have a military (i.e. government) DB pension fully indexed for inflation?


I'm shocked that Caplan being an Africa "scholar" doesn't know that slave ownership is still very common and open in the year 2016 in many parts of the African continent today. However it's amongst the various superstitious and corrupt sects, groups, clans and cultures of Africa. Caplan instead of being so condescending against a tolerant liberal democracy like the US and its people, why don't you research and advocate for the slaves in Africa who really need your help?


I love it! Look at all the libtards outraged here.  This means life is good for us conservatives. Maybe if Obama truly showed a love for this great country, or had the decency to tell at least one soldier’s family that he was sorry for their loss without disrespectfully making a political spectacle of it wouldn’t be so bad. Again OUR President Trump is correct to question the past idiot in chiefs cowardly misdeeds.


Thank you to Debra Soh. A brave soul and a voice of reason. It is refreshing to see these respected academics with some intellectual integrity and the courage to speak out on contentious issues. Especially when questioning the science on trans issues presents such real and great risks to career potentials and reputations. And even more so when, in these times, it is so much easier to just go along to get along, show political reliability and keep your head down. I have no interest in teaching my kids the puritanical, ultra religious views on sex and sexuality but the Lefts ideological indoctrinations aren't any better.


Trump's wealthcare bill answers the question, "How can we give more tax cuts to the wealthy"? The answer is to cut Medicaid funding for the poorest and sickest and cut care for everyone now getting it through the affordable care act. That will free up $600 billion ($200 million for each individual in the 1%).


Trump himself said the treaty was nonbiding. My first thought was "then why does it matter if you pull out other than it gives you a chance to hear yourself speak and grandstand?"


Saunders fails of course to mention the fact that voters in the West have played along with the "yes" forces for the past three decades, leading to a stagnant global economy and growing social inequality. Christine Lagarde of the IMF has noted that globalization hasn't exactly been an economic panacea and others, including Oxford professor and economist Paul Collier, have noted that mass migration hasn't generated the benefits touted by its proponents, with the marginalized and poor, including immigrants already living in Western societies, paying the biggest price. So, if the globalizers can't figure out how to make the "yes" agenda work except for a very small group of investors and rentiers, why on earth should voters give it the benefit of the doubt?


You didn't answer his question, namely why Canada's much higher rate of immigration hasn't let to higher per capita economic growth than other countries with lower immigration rates, such as the US.


I don't need to know your income level. There might be 150 people in the world richer than Trump, maybe.  But I'll bet there are 1500 people in Eugene alone, with more money than you. And I'll bet NONE of them are even in the top 150 in the state.  YOU are so far down the ladder, I'll bet everything I have, that you are a LOT closer to my wealth level than to Trump.  Ya wanna take that bet? Of course not. Go read a magazine and feel superior to Trump, class act you are.


sorry but we have very high unemployment - the only measure captured is people on EI which is why it remains steady at 7%.

the actual stat is how many are in the labour force age group v. how many in the labour force age group have jobs - the result is that there is 30% non-employment. while there are some decreases to that we also must consider that there are 25,000 people coming to Canada each month (immigration) but the economy is not creating 25,000 jobs per month.

we should be objecting to this type of program loudly


Trump is open and honest to a fault. Hillary is the ultimate elite insider establishment. Neo-con Brent Scowcroft now endorses her. Its an easy choice really.


As a counterpoint to RVWilliams .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMXoWe2ztE


My new game here at the G&M:

Find an article which will be super critical of the Liberals and take bets on if the comments will be the new "Civil/thumbs down free format which insulates hyper-partisan rhetoric from being clearly denounced.

So far, I'm batting 100%.


Sorry for the whale.  If your going to hunt and kill something you should know what your hunting......


You got him and his wife dead to rights. Why the plea deals, then? What is she getting charged with? Aiding and abetting, I hope. Her culpability is no less than his! Both are animals. Beast humans who should not be walking this earth.


There is nothing more misunderstood than equalization payments and distribution calculations. The overriding idea is to have more or less equal services provided to our citizens regardless of where they live. But this has led to all kinds of untrue horror stories about how Peter was robbed to pay Paul.


Mr. Decker obviously forgot to study the real meaning of the "Civil War"  It was not about slavery, It was about "State's Rights".  The sub-issue was slavery as observed in the Emancipation Proclamation in which slaves were freed only in the states considered part of the Confederacy (an executive order with no authority).  Northern state kept their slaves,  While the other actions of these students shame the true meaning of the "Stars and Bars" please do not confuse the symbol to represent racism.  Even Alaska has had "states rights issues with days of considering leaving the U.S. "Maybe Joe was Right"  State's Rights under the Constitution of the United States must prevail for a Democratic Republic to exist. Please find and  take a CLE course on the issue, it will be enlightening.


I know you praying for Trump's downfall and I'm going to say this again, NOTHING will come of the Comey hearings. Comey is in a corner, he will most likely say, Well, there might’ve been some pressure but not obstructions. Why? Because if it were obstructions, then he is indicting himself. For not resigning, for not making a statement, for not bringing it out in the open. CHECKMATE....cheers Comey, good riddance.


Bingo.  Well said.


What do our our elected officials have to say about this? It would be nice if they spoke.


To not know history is to live forever as a child.


Jesus is not fake. History proves that.  The question around him is whether or not he was  a good prophet or the prophesied savior.


Pope Francis certainly doesn't care about religious creed when he advocates for refugees, most of whom currently attempting to flee to Europe are not Christian. I would certainly hope that the U.S. bishops don't either.


New dinosaur discovered: Presumptuous Rex.


Another inelegent argument for stealing the stuff of people that have done better than you have.


Liberals can't stand the unvarnished truth, that we know, Hodad wannabe???  Hodad wannabe is a twist on semantics beyond your understanding not only of the English language but surfer lingo too.


Typical looney bin democrat rent-a-mob.  A collection of neurotic women, homeless trans-whatevers and effete metrosexuals.  Yikes!


you should at least give the cost of other treatments..valeant is an easy target.  start giving informative info so we can make informed decisions


aiea7.  Can you point out the provision in the bill that would actually provide funding for maintenance?  Here's the language in the bill that describes how the money will be dispersed.

 "All funds received pursuant to sponsorship agreements will be deposited into the appropriate fund as determined by the director of budget and fiscal services, provided that such funds are expended for their designated purpose."

Do you even know who the director of budget and fiscal services will be when this money starts coming in?  I don't.  Therefore, I find it hard to trust him or her and I am curious as to why you do?  I'm basing my mistrust on pretty much every City and County budget I have ever seen.


i drove past this a couple of days ago. WOW! it is stunning. at that point a lot of subtle texturing type painting had been done.  an incredible artist... i just left the best dispensary i've yet to find...righteous bud.   i think it's just called Bud.  its at 1st and washington and can't miss their very well painted building...and the big neon ATM sign which has become the barber pole of dispensaries...

 the artist of this building deserves all the kudos of a master...


Hilliary's book is a big problem for her supporters. Proves she is delusional and unfit for office, just as voters thought. History will not be kind to this woman after this book, she is lucky it will be panned.


Awesome! Good job and good luck!


What a crock.  BBNC owns a large oil field support company on the North Slope, in the heart of ASRC land.


News flash ! Hawaii belongs to NOBODY! It was here before people and will be,after we depart. The Hawaiian culture seems to be strong and healthy in and of itself, as local people have proudly preserved  their lifestyle,holidays and traditions.                                                                                If land desecration is such an issue, CLEAN UP the messes you make on the roads, land and parks, (graffiti,abandoned cars and refuse) that we see everywhere we go. That would be respecting and preserving the land.


Says a retired garbageman wallowing on a fat union pension courtesy of the state.


I think the government should go one step further and tell Boeing it not need not compete the next time Air Canada is looking for new planes.


Ordination of males only is not dogma, it is simply a rule which an be changed.  The only dogmas are the Creedal statements and any statements issued "ex cathedra" by the pope.


Time to start talking about a meaningful rail exit strategy.  The lack of that discussion by anyone on the HART board is simply irresponsible.  While they discuss money running out completely in just over 6 months, no one, it appears, is making a mve to initiate wind down considerations.  One would have to presume this board would oversee the initially un-planned premature end of the project.  It seems like the only reason they address ending the program is to try and scare the public with the close down costs.  "Oh, you guys don't want this to stop.  It's gonna cost BIG BUCKS!  BOOO!"  Plans should start now, in the discussion and skeletal planning stages at the very least.  The public no longer supports this boondoggle because it is not as easily fooled.   It doesn't take experience as a political insider or captain of local business to understand that this project will end up really hurting everyone financially (e.g. excessive taxes).   Without public support, it is dead.


Just out of curiosity, when does supporting a particular party or candidate because they are anti abortion get overcome by that party or candidate representing a serious threat to global humanity?  Is one fetal life truly worth voting for a political party or individual whose policies would potentially destroy the planet? The very planet that would sustain that fetus?  I am seriously beginning to realize the anti abortion crowd would say yes.....or claim not to understand the question.


Um, I think we're the ones being violated, not them.


You know, a quick DNA test would put such controversies to bed.  As a matter of fact, I would suggest making DNA analysis a prerequisite for scholarships and other social benefits reserved for ethnic groups which have experienced historical discrimination.  If you are ethnically Jewish, a DNA test will confirm it.  The same if you are aboriginal.  Why would you ever take someone at their word on the issue of identity when there's money/status on the line?

It is not the case that identity is mutable and we can all choose our own.  This is where the left assaults the truth just as brutally as the right does.  Despite what the dogmatic would have you believe, there are actually facts in this world, both historical and biological.  People are deluding themselves if they think they can escape the facts by adopting a label.


I telecommuted from home as a contracted DBA with a Telcom for a while. They didn't really want me in the office, despite having spare desks and Docking ports for my corporate laptop. I was able to persuade them to let me in when my college kids were home at Xmas and summer vacation. Too much going on around the house, so a sparsely occupied open telecom office was quieter. -)

There was a sudden abrupt workforce adjustment at that telecom a few years before that. People who walked through the downtown office after said that it looked like one of those 1960s SF TV shows or movies where someone finds a deserted town with evidence of people leaving in mid task. Looked like terminated staff were not even allowed to come back after hours, escorted, and clean out their desks and personal effects. Before that the saying was that the telecom was going to install oil showers inside the card control doorways, so that staff could squeeze into their desks.


Absolute rubbish.  High immigration levels and restrictive land use guarantee seven figure home prices indefinitely.  Those who don't qualify will move down market and push the bottom end higher and if they still don't qualify they will push rents higher.  If any other outcome results, the economy will roll over and interest rates will quickly backoff.  The party rolls on!


I suppose that this is where we'll have a chance to find out whether they are statesmen/women or politicians. Here in Canada, I fear that most would fall into the latter category.


(Part two of two)  A local major university's Catholic society professes to be FTTM (Faithful To The Magisterium). As a result it attracts only a tiny percentage of Catholic students there. (It's in Cardinal George Pell's former Archdiocese - no need to say more).—Red chook  the ying and the yang.

and

It takes a special talent to be both part of the institution and hands-on practical. To the detriment of the institution, not a lot of people can negotiate live-practicality in the fossilized institutional environment.—sylvester(pat)steffen  ditto.


A few lies told by Cohen and spread by the globalist, progressive MSM:

1) The first allegiance for an honorable Southern man in 1861 was his native state.  Like many other West Point Rebels, General Lee made the extremely difficult decision to defend his home state against the invading Union.

To do otherwise would have made him a traitor to his first allegiance.

2) General Lee believed in manumission;  his will stipulated that.  He believed that before blacks could be freed they had to be educated and taught a skill so that they could prosper in society.

3) General Lee and many other Southerners believed that slavery would eventually die out on its own without war.  That's exactly what happened in Brazil.

4) The false equivalence between Southerners trying to defend their homeland and Nazis is disgusting.  The Nazis were in favor of genocide for many groups and wanted world hegemony.  General Lee and his army just wanted to keep the Yank barbarians out of Virginia.

Cohen lies.


A philanthropic  immigrant from the Muslim world.

 This helps to prove that Arab immigrants  enrich our country.

We need more Muslim immigration, not less.


Oh, right--because a president who is a womanizer, commits adultery with an intern in the oval office, sexually harasses women as president, tries to use his office to bully the women into silence, then lies about it under oath, claiming not to know the definition of "is" has integrity and character than is beyond reproach.

The person who is married to him, who says that women who claim harassment and abuse should be believed---but did not believe the several women who accused her husband and likewise tried to bully them into silence also has integrity and character that is beyond reproach.

Dude, seriously?

I grant Trump is no integrity or character--but what politician does?  You don't get to be a high level politician like a senator, president, SCOTUS justice etc, if you have integrity and character!  I accept that.  If you are going to throw stones at Trump, make sure you save some for Slick Willy and his wife.   They are no better.


As it is likely you make more than me I would appreciate you forwarding monetary compensation to myself and any others in a similar situation on a monthly basis.
We will be doing better and you will be feeling better for doing so.
Thank you for starting this initiative.
Please forward your address.


This Paris, accord for us, treaty for the rest of the rest, only came to be, because the Copenhagen agreement failed, thanks to China for voting against it.  The Copenhagen deal was actually a better deal. If failed after is was revealed, from release e-mails that much of the global warming data was manufactured. In order to come to the conclusion research wanted.

"Around the world, climate change is a metastasizing danger, for some countries even an existential threat."

 1) who are these counties and who are their leaders? 2) what form of government controls these countries? Why is it America's fault that some countries feel threaten? We cleaned are back yard, because of the liberty and freedom we enjoy. It's interesting that We the People, any where, being in charge is termed "man made" climate change, but political leader being charge, is some how is going to control climate change.


absolutely AND the city should pay a fat and lucrative settlement to the Nurse; nothing deters behavior in municipal employees like civil court cases.


In a 50 - 33 vote, The Senate agreed that they will remain irrelevant, and have absolutely no will to do the work they were appointed to do.


Jesus taught us to call God Father. God revealed Himself to be Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He did not reveal Himself as Goddess in any text of Christian revelation.  If calling God "Father" is good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.


I love love love Republicans running scared! This scenario wouldn't be a problem if they had at least paid lip service to working with the Dems but they got pretty darned arrogant and decided they had a mandate. This is so doggoned funny it hurts to laugh!


I love how this article starts off with the 'facts' about the number of subscribers and YouTube videos this person has, as if that is somehow proof of his beliefs. I sounds sickeningly like Trump's belief that he must be right (about everything) because he's dupped millions of people into paying attention to his nonsense.  If that's true, Ashton Kutcher and Paris Hilton are the smartest people in the world!

I happen to believe the world is under seize from Martians who are attacking us by throwing hero sandwiches at us -- and who are secretly controlling us by making us believe in the 'global, round earth' lie. And if I get a few million people to follow me on Twitter it will be proof that I'm right! Maybe I'll get a book deal out of it too.

It must be a slow news week at the SWR.


So in fact the definition of "hate speech" used is a lot broader than simply calling for extermination or genocide, after all, Alceste?


Well it looks like two sides can play this game. Yesterday there were musings that Trump may fire Mueller. Today we have the story from the other side that indeed Trump is under investigation. Official Washington just Trumped Trump. Get rid of Mueller now and Trump shows he is guilty as sin.
The Trump team has a lot to learn about gotta politics. But then again as Ryan says Trump is new to this game.Unbelievable.


Obscene.  Shameless.  Liberal.


65 for Native Alaskans...74 for Non-Native Alaskans....but as you may know the lower life expectancy for Native people had to do with (and still does) the rural life they lead....rural people, worldwide, have shorter lives partly do to the accident rates of rural living and in AK, substance abuse (alcohol/ snuff) also leads to shorter lives as does obesity.....these are the problems in rural AK for whites and natives alike.

2004...Natives 70 yrs.....non-native Alaskans 77 yrs...so there is progress....in lifestyle choices & in less dangerous pursuits....chopping wood...hunting...boating...camping away from a health clinic...etc.

It's not the water....no matter how much you wish it was....one of the men that would NEVER drink city water died in his 50's....he was crushed by a large truck when they were moving houses w/ big equipment to make room for a bigger airport....which is typical work in rural AK....the % of people who have "city like" jobs inside buildings is much less.


Bicycles predate the automobile.


Hey, don't blame us! We didn't vote for Bill Clinton!


Equality and rights secular ideas? Paul the Ap. would disagree with you in an irreverent hurry.


"Back-channel communications with people are ways to communicate with people, again not in front of the press, as an example, but that information is not necessarily kept secret from the rest of the government," Kelly added."

Simplistic garbage for simple minds.  Trump Chumps will go for it, since it's meant for them.  As though anyone, anywhere only communicates in front of the press, and there are no other options other than setting up secret back channel communications with a country - an enemy -  that launched a cyber attack against the country. Not to mention bailed out the President - which it helped put into office using the cyber attack - financially numerous times, and who is entangled in various business relationships.  Oh yeah, and whuch is under investigation for all that and more. Because all that normal.

No, Kelly, it's not "normal" and business as usual.  Spin away, and put an investigative target on your back in the process.


IME smokers tend to be mostly considerate, even cowed and apologetic. And the most militant and intolerant anti-smokers are former smokers, not those who have never smoked.


Whatever option she thinks will allow her to have the most amount of money/power?


"eating the seed corn for another meal rather than planting the seed corn," he said, or, in a more Alaska-focused analogy: "I'm a big fan of sourdough pancakes. And if we treat our Permanent Fund like we treat sourdough starter, we'll be fine. No one would ever use up all the sourdough starter. The first thing you do is you take it out and leave it for the next batch."

Really Bill?! Like the State has already eaten all the Constitutional Budget Reserve funds, (their share, from the Permanent Fund Program) intended to be used for emergency budget "shortfalls", but instead--how should I say this nicely--"taken" by the State to pay for its ever increasing and completely unjustified size? Seriously?! The largest per capita spending in the country, and on exactly what infrastructure and systems?

Now yours is gone so you take 1/2 of our shares from  the past 5 years avg.?! those should not even be considered as the payout # is based on past years! OUR money is there!! Not yours! SMDH!


And its going away. LOL


Sounds like the Hawaii version of Elizabeth Warren.


The Governor chose Galera for the Education position. He then appointed the BOE, including Galera.  So now the Ige hand-picked BOE chooses the Superintendent, and one of the candidates is a former BOE member who everyone knows Ige wants?  I hope the BOE recuses itself from the entire process to ensure a fair process.


Guantanamo,

Wrong, I implied no such thing, and I will provide examples to demonstrate:

1. Timothy McVeigh, terrorist and white male. He blew up the Oklahoma building killing dozens. His functional manifesto was big government was taking away rights of people, such as to bear arms, and his lesson to government was to stop executing anti-gun policies like in Waco and Ruby Ridge.

2. Ted Kazinski, the Unabomber, terrorist and white male, his manifesto was government and elites were embracing too much technology to the ruin of society, his lesson was for its designers and fosterers to stop.

3. James Kopp, terrorist and white male, shot abortion providers. His manifesto was that liberal abortion access must be ended.

4. Nidal Hasan, MUSLIM AND NOT A TERRORIST, shot 43 people at the Fort Hood military base. He was not a terrorist because he specifically targeted non-civilians, shooting at uniformed soldiers. That was not terrorism, it was an insurrection or a rebellion or an act of war.


Great article Wente!


The Notwithstanding clause is not a get out of jail free card.  If he won the settlement the most the government could do is refuse to pay and then be taken back to court to enforce the judgement.

The Notwithstanding clause can be used to create a law to violate someone's rights - famously the only usage is to allow the primacy of French in Quebec  It cant be used to avoid a settlement when the Government has already violated someones rights.


It is crazy, and that is their reality. House rich, cash poor in many cases.


I assume the laudatory assessments in the foreign media means the UK Guardian.  Perhaps Al Jazeera and whatever the daily in Davos is.

I strongly doubt he has re-fashioned Canada's global image simply because Canada does not interest a global audience.  For those who do care about Canada, he has definitely cut us away from our closet allies and returned us to our position as the so-called honest broker for the third tier nations but who wants to be a useful contributor to the first world when you can get all that adoration from the third?  It costs less and looks great on Instagam and, even better, it helps prop up that Millennial constituency that needs to be kept from noticing that its future is being wiped out by ill-conceived Keynesian tribute budgets.


The ANC caucus an ally of the people of this country???? What absolute rubbish. For the last ten years the ANC caucus has defended Jacob Zuma and in the process the ANC caucus has allow  the man, a criminal, to destroy this country. Anybody making such statements, especially an ANC member of parliament, is not suitable to represent the people of this country.   Zuma must go the ANC cannot be allowed to defend him any longer.


Give me a break!  President Trump is going to slow down on supporting oil development in Alaska.  I don't believe it, and I don't believe Dan Sullivan does either.  If he really is "troubled" by Trump's threat, he ought to stand up for Senator Murkowski who's doing right by Alaskans!  He ought to stand up to our bully President; he ought to stop cowering and start governing like Murkowski.  And, while he's at it, he ought to look at how many people in his real state are going to lose coverage too.  Thank you Senator Murkowski!  Your constituents are with you!  Stay Strong!


Thank you Tim!!


Is minority-elect "President" Trump a war criminal?


"MAGA!!!!!! Manafort And Gates Arrested"
.
I want that hat


Haha - thanks for nothing rustle.

Perhaps your homeopath is giving you too high a dose?


And of course this convicted felon went through a proper background check because there is a law about that.


and you yourselves came from siberia. so everyone is from somewhere else. some came sooner, some later, but all have come. how did you police yourselves before? before the massive intrusion by juneau? or dc? the more power you give away, the less you have.


You might find some acolytes here prepared to believe you were only "expressing an aphorism of sorts" but for others, yes, your mentioning change through violence three times is advocating it.


But will you answer my question?


.9 is 90%


Arnie has lost my respect. I refuse to see any movies with him in it. Maria worked so hard to support him like a good dedicated wife just like Jane Fonda did trying to raise money for Tom Hayden's elections. Glad to ready Hayden is dead already. Both men are hypocrites and should stay out of the newspapers. Drop dead, Arnie.


Thank you Margaret.  The President of this once highly regarded institution of learning is beyond spineless.  It is indeed sad that McGill graduates and the current class are tarnished by her cowardly behavior.


Mellisme,
" His followers are the only people shortchanged, then again, they deserve to be for being so gullible."
lol
And in which way his followers are shortchanged, by Americans making over  100 billions of dollars, and keeping their alliance with the West at the same time.
Wow, double Wow. Only in your gullible mind dear poster, you will never understand in the real world, if they don't sell it to the Arabs, Canada will, or China, Russia.


How much does the government subsidize the oil and gas industry?


SB-91 protected class strikes again!


All new technologies are cost "prohibitive" when first introduced.  The costs are reduced with time.  Both solar and wind production technologies are experiencing this right now.  My folks bought our first television in 1949...a cabinet about the size of a volkswagen and a screen smaller than some laptop computers.  It cost $849 in 1949 money, that equivalent to about $8500 in today's dollars.

Just like TVs,  those renewables are getting cheaper and more cost competitive every day.   That's, IMO, a very good thing.  Gary Crum


Wow.....over simplify much...?


testosterone running high in america.  nothing like war to help the hungry distract them from their hunger.  conservative answers to all lifes retched ills can be found in armaments.  needless unaccounted trillions continue to be spent on the military while the conditions in which people live in some parts of american inner cities is worse than third world.


Another excellent example of  a red hat attempting to defend the indefensible.


China, the Super Power, is flooding the world with dangerous counterfeits.


According to the research by the EMP Commission, there was not a nuke too small to be safe from EMP, if detonated 300km+ about North America.


Tom is not just a puppet of the health care lobby.  Although many of his top donors include medical companies, he has also taken money from Koch Industries and Wall Street.  Tom appears to be a politician who wants to represent all corporate interests.  A great pick!


"Denounced by all". To hell with you G&M, and your suggestion our freedom to speak should be curtailed. A multitude of people detest her....in life, you reap what you sow. She's reaping the scorn for proceeding with her twisted personal agenda.


I have never seen any elected Republican willing to "Work together" with members of the Democratic party to get things accomplished that they were elected to do, represent the people who voted them into office, not just the wealthy, big corporations, or corporations. A democrat mayor Berkowitz announces Anchorage will see a $14M surplus in 2015. Some of it could be attributed to no snow.  Republicans are the only ones trying to eliminate the vote for women and minorities. There are people who can't see that Republicans are in office to further their own agenda, not the interests of the people who voted for them. Dumb and blind people are easily lead and manipulated.


Supremacist Richard Spenser flashing the Pepe hate sign.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/796132542739083264


Most PV should be close to point of use so things like roofs and parking lot s which will actually help keep places cooler and nicer.  Wind has a low (not zero) environmental impact if properly placed. Current storage using things like pumped water: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31372
I know of building that have been using ice cooling for years for thermal storage and I have a system using thermal mass storage that has been used for year so many of these things are not future but are already in use.
Work on improved electrodes, catalysts, and other components in batteries and fuel cells is progressing rapidly and a number of fuel cells systems are running now. Direct CO2 to ethanol exists and is becoming more efficient but good old electrolysis is being done with improved electrodes that do not involve precious metals. An old but nice graphic of some storage: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-an-energy-storage-tsunami-about-to-wash-over-california


scary


Using the criminal court to 'negotiate' Constitutional land disputes is something underhanded that Trump would do.  Unchecked power inherently evolves into abuse of power.


Mark, How do you know what worked in the 1800's?  Don't believe everything you watch on TV (westerns) or read on the internet.  I can find different statistics on the subject on the internet to support what I want to believe.  I don't believe everything I was taught in school.  Also, we didn't even have a clue what was happening from shore to shore.  The media was not that quick as they are today.  I'm not sure too that statistics were that reliable in those days.

People are so quick to say we need to fix the morality problem but rarely do they provide any plan on how to fix it.  You want to keep your guns?  Then shoot out your mouth with a plan to fix the world!

Do you have children?  If you do, how are you raising them to make sure they stay out of trouble?  Are you the best possible parent you can be?  Would you bet your life that your kids will grow up to be responsible adults?


"Mr. Bendtsen’s property at 405 Railway was just assessed at $14.512-million, up from $5.751-million last year. In 2016, he paid $68,852 in taxes. Based on the 2017 value, his taxes will be an estimated $175,000."

That is a larger than average increase to be sure, but taxes will not increase by 2.5x as the article states; all these increased values will determine the mill rate, and overall taxes in Vancouver are reported to be going up 3.9%. The assessed value of my home went up about 40%, but I expect this to be about average and therefore I will be paying a tax increase of about 3.9%.


You're so right.


Great story.


We were taxed for Social Security and Medicare, we are taxed for taken Social Security, a tax on a tax.  Medicare is taken from Social Security, but we paid a Medicare tax, where did this tax go?


Good auspices of America notwithstanding, they took a "handful" of Canadians, but only after Americans' pets were first loaded (Canadians came after animals), and then the Canucks were charged $1,500/nose and dumped in Costa Rica with a visa which expire in 7-days.


Well, the "Orthodox Liturgy" is ours too since the Byzantine Catholics use the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil.
My order of preference for form/rite/use is:
EF
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Ordinariate use
Reverently celebrated Novus Ordo


Hey! I'm Ben, the guy who asked the question about native Hawaiian sovereignty at the panel. While unfortunately, there wasn't enough time for the panel to answer this question fully, a handful of the people in the crowd reached out to me after to give me their personal responses. Even if this question caused discomfort on-stage, it's very warming and encouraging to know that many folks there and online are/were willing to teach me about their struggles! Sending my support and solidarity from the continent.


Where was Mason talking about "stiffening one's spine" when Obama, the wimp-in-chief was busy executing his spineless foreign policy.


As documented here on Civil Beat, the total statewide retirement system’s unfunded liability is $8.7 billion (with a B).  All of it accumulated under Hawaii Democratic party control.


sher said; comment was about history in general, not Canadian history.
But WE are ALL here for Canadian history, no ?
Got a GOOD ONE for you ;
the Peoples of the First Nations move/ walk on foot or by canoe / they do not yet know an animal called "cheval" because it has no horses in 1634 North America continent. This is
Sir Samuel de Champlain then Gouverneur Général of Canada who will place a 'command' to the Chief Veterinary Officer of the stables of the kingship of King Louis XIV (a kind of Mega Royal Ministry of Agriculture, oui?). In 1662, "Stables" of France’s King Louis XIV will emerge one of the most remarkable horses to conquer North America;
 the "Canadien" horse (“French Canadian” horse/ see Google-pictures & info).
You knew it, eh Sher (Chère ?) ?
Got another one and...a GOOD ONE to laugh at (you might say ?)


Right On, Ken Higgins!


I thought the House version was well balanced. Make no mistake, it gave some borderline crazy concessions like interest rates on money owed. The oil reps in the Senate are convinced that the only way to develop oil in Alaska is to give Big Oil what they want or they will leave. Has anyone, at any time ever said where big oil is better off? North Dakota and the Permian Basin seem to be better for the wildcatters, but Big Oil? We need to look at a state owned field and the possible ownership of TAPS. This would involve big risks to the state, but we are now subsidizing those risks with SB 21, the cash payout bill basically written by the oil reps in the legislature. It also hurts Alaska that one of the architects of SB 21, Senator Dan Sullivan is doing backflips to help the Tar Sands in Canada which competes with Alaska. Doing everything Big Oil wants doesn't make you pro oil, it just makes you pro corporation and pro monopoly and possibly anti Alaska. The Senate is wrong on HB 111.


"systematically replaced"? Nice work with the hyperbole and paranoia there franco.

What next? A rant about Protestants?


That's all the Trumpies have left now, isn't it? "Snowflake", "Crybaby", "Bless your heart"... now that the thin-ice logic of the Trumpists are being challenged and you have no real response, you can only weakly and wistfully try to deny the opinions of others.

Yesterday I saw a widely spread video of Muslims attacking a Christmas tree at a mall. "Deport these devils!" was the gist of the comments. Hilariously, the video is actually a traditional tree climbing race of the Christian Kurds, filmed in Iraq, but the Trumpies see a few hijabs and assume it is violent mob (never mind that many in the crowd were wearing Santa hats). This is the kind of unchallenged dumbness that works to win an election but not in governance.


YRU worrying? He's got the Missus's moolah.  He'll be just fine.


Taboot, you say, "The weather changes every day, not the climate..." So you are trying to tell us that climate does not change?
Obviously, to make a point I was exaggerating when I said it changes every day. But climate or weather or whatever you want to call it does change several times a year. The climate is different today than it was 6 months ago, and it will be different again in a few months.

Best,

RTD


Actually, yes, I have in fact worked in more than one restaurant in my younger days.  The disgusting stuff I watched happening in the kitchen on a regular basis was one of the reasons I didn't continue to do so.  Well, that and the $2 an hour plus tips I earned (yes, it was a long time ago).  But, to address your question here, if making payroll and keeping the doors open comes at the expense of deceptive, evasive, or just plain ol' bad business practices (ie., the restaurateur telling me I am eating a pork chop when its a duck and -knowing- it is a duck, for example) then maybe the restaurateur should find a new line of business that doesn't depend on honesty and forthrightness.  Speaking of which, I hear a bunch of bums that refer to themselves as our "State Representatives" are fixin' to get kicked out of office this fall.  Should be a perfect opportunity for folks with said lack of restaurateur skills to seek new (and probably much more lucrative) employment.


First flaky Nancy Pelosi and noe Adam Schiff, both disgruntled Liberal Democratic hacks from the once-great State of California. Give us a break from these fools. The election is long over and the Democrats lost and now Hillary Clinton and the DNC are the coluders with Russia and were profìteering with their disgusting dirty tricks. They need to be investigatedthoroughly and imprisoned for their crimes.


So Millie you're on board with that one?


How on earth can these simple-minded people spend our tax dollars on something this worthless? If the unthinkable happens, we don't have a chance and North Korea knows that if they send just one thing our way, there will no longer be a North Korea. Add this one to the rail fiasco along with the superferry, etc. I think I'm moving to the mainland. How do people like this get to run our state? Oh, I forgot, few people here vote.


Lol, dotard gets stuck in another swampy muck. His goo is knee deep in DC. He has to eat his own goo on this one. Cant pull out a recording? Every potus communication is recorded. Especially official ones.


Interesting study but the article and the study presume that we all want same day access.  Do we? If same day access meant more tax would we pay it?


Trudeau's speech disgusts me.  He describes Canada as though it is one of the most depraved nations on Earth, when it is one of the most just and fair.
His blatant opportunism, hypocrisy, and bent prespective on issues in Canada are frightening and dangerous to Canada's future economy and social stability.
Reality check: Twice as many Indigenous boys and men are missing and murdered than girls and women, but that doesn't warrant the Government's attention.  All part of a poverty cycle.  Hypocrits.
In 2019 we need to vote the Liberals out before they can do anymore damage.


Her right to disturb a towns peace and scare kids just to force city council into a hotel. Nasty rich old bitty. Blackmailing town with her bodybuilder jailbird. She better stay in Florida. That towns people are scared and frightened people do terrible things too.


I agree with you, but it's hard to see how you get there without some sort of Orwellian "Ministry of Information" which is even more terrifying.


Press relations are not that big of deal in the grand strategy of foreign relations and domestic governance that should occupy the efforts of the President of the United States.  If Donald J. Trump would focus on his duty to protect the nation and govern for all Americans a positive press image would naturally follow.  He can hire press agents and image makers until "the second coming", and he can tweet up a storm; however, he should never forget the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."


Shocking and disgusting comment.  Unbelievably perverse.


Justin Trudeau, the avid boxer, beat that Indigenous First Nations man senseless fair and square.  Get over it already!


Follow the money .  See what she does with the leftover money now that two recounts won't actually happen .


Opps, another "fake" news storey.


And sadly for me, my senator, Gary Stevens, who lost his perspective after his strongly-principled stand against SB 21 cost him the power he once had. An object lesson in human nature. Time to get all of that retirement money, Gary. Time to get Out.Of.The.Way.


Wow! As a mainlander, I am proud and gratified that sensible, safety-first, gun laws have trumped the NRA's frothing-at-the-mouth rhetoric in at least one state. Thank you Hawaii for leading the way!
Kathryn Dalton-NM


EU is anything but a democracy and EU "government" is just a self-serving group of corrupt and incompetent politicians, in addition to being un-elected.  As to Spain, it has committed a terrible mistake by attacking the voters to stop them from voting and expressing their will, to stay in or leave Spain. Spain has probably solidified the pro-independence block.


Sigh can the globe ever stop with STEM and women. It is not as though women in Ontario haven't had 25+ years of support for STEM, maybe just maybe they don't want to work for the soulless IT departments of the Amazon's of the world or in certain aspects of tech. Because tech such as biology, medicine, chemical engineering, etc is full of women who perform very capably.

Maybe we need to up our highschool standards in math and critical thinking (literature/history) in order to get students better prepared for uni/college. In fact a lot of the jobs that Amazon et al are looking for could be filled by technologists and college trained programmers.  Maybe microsoft et al should be investing in training?????


The discussion of Islamic values and their potential incompatibility with Western values doesn't stem from simple distrust of people with a different religion. It comes instead from observations that a very disproportionately high level of terrorism is performed in the name of Islam and that majority-Muslim countries tend to have a great imbalance of rights for men vs women, straight vs gay, Muslim vs non-Muslim. In addition, the spread of Islam thru violent conquest since the time of Mohammed himself, while often similar to the spread of other religions in the past, is still advocated today by a vocal, murderous, & rather large group of folks in the name of Islam. In a free society, we must be able to discuss how to address such an influential and dangerous ideology (if held by a minority of Muslims or not) without the discussion being shouted down by accusations of Nazism and imminent holocaust. Yes, we must always guard religious freedom, yet also our free discussion of ideas.


The government should pass a law requiring a mandatory dress code of sweat pants and flip flops.  Then we can all look like government civil servants and be comfortable at work.  That way everyone will be equal looking like lazy slobs.


They backed her because she's not Joe Miller. That's what she gave them.


To not reduce their per diem sends the wrong message. At a time when everyone is being asked to make sacrifices  in a reduced PFD and the imposition of some sort of tax, Seaton is completely tone deaf.


... the remaining market participants have no such protection from either competition or rampant taxation. It is every man for himself
in the private sector.

So for example: If an occupant of a property is a small grocery
store such as on the Danforth it would be easy to predict costs.
Hydro costs are in his records. Wage costs are in his records.
Reported profits are recorded. Wholesale purchases are in his records. It would be quite easy to calculate the effect of property tax increases on his business. Compare his numbers against the
average for his category and tax property accordingly.

Some competitors would do better others worse. Presumably
the poorer operators would close up. Rents would determine
the properties alternate desirability.

If a jeweller opens up instead of  a beauty parlour simply
tax based on the aggregate metrics for jewellers operating
in say 2000 square feet.

Bureaucrats put all that computing power to work or else face a dystopian street scape ...


What about next year?


So we're supposed to respect murderous racists?


100% fake news by left/socialists MEDIA types.   Get your facts straight and don’t use G&M or STAR or CBC…… do your own homework.  You can’t trust CBC, G&M and company !


Not true.
Not a single prisoner in the Arizona Tent City died for lack of health care or nutrition.


Raingull: Your logic fails. Just stop.  You are showing how clueless you are each and every time.


"Thin skinned?" Rempel? Hardly. She's so tough she wouldn't look out of place carrying a spear while wearing chain mail and a helmet with horns. She's just an opportunistic politician playing to her audience.


An income tax might - might - raise $200 million .... but how much would it cost to collect? How big would the new bureaucracy have to be? Hint: Big. Real big and expensive. Knowing how we do things, there would be offices in every city in the state, staffed with clerks and multi-language skills, latest computers and cool new displays. Interactive, digital, glowing.  How long would this tax stay in effect? Until oil got back to $70? $90? Another hint: Forever.


'
…I'm supportive of the you moving part.  That's a good contribution to the discussion.

Carrying out that suggestion is all that's left for you to walk that talk.

Godspeed.
.


Bill Morneau, "the respected Finance Minister"? Only in the eyes of a socialist publication. He is clearly displaying evidence that he is in way over his head. Lord God, give me Michael Wilson again


It is time for Provinces to be put under a microscope and be accountable for their spending. If there were no strings I am sure Wynne and company would put that money into general revenue and  use the funds to buy votes for the next election. Not one cent would find its way into healthcare only votecare!.


LOL what a pile of garbage this health system is.  Meh, just throw more money at it, right?


Why would you assume that anyone would choose chemotherapy?  I have already informed my health-care provider that, were I ever to get cancer, I would not allow chemotherapy or radiation to be performed upon my body.  There are plenty of less-invasive, alternative therapies available, but the medical community would never consider them, just like it does not approve of CBD oil for depression and pain.  Everyone I know who has had cancer, and has had conventional therapies, has had the cancer chased to other parts of their bodies, or had it return with a vengeance.  They may have had a few-more years, but at what expense and with what quality of life?  A friend who has had breast cancer forced into remission is now confined to her sofa.  She has no strength, is tired all the time, and looks like death warmed over.  But she will tell you, proudly, that she "beat cancer."  Really?


Homelessness is a national problem and should be addressed at the national level. It is indeed disturbing that Eugene city leaders are considering programs that will multiply the number of homeless persons coming to Eugene. The city's ability to address homelessness  will continue to be overwhelmed so long as federal programs remain inadequate. By making the homeless problem still larger, city leaders risk losing public support for parks and recreation paths that are already becoming the domains of vagabonds and illegal campers. Moreover, the city may very well find itself on a downward economic spiral as businesses and citizens become displaced by the inevitable influx of the nation's homeless. Eugene city leaders would be wiser if they join with other cities to instill a greater sense of urgency in congressional delegations to pass legislation that increases affordable housing and access to social programs.


I have some complaints too, but really, the 'right's' worst publications like Fox not-news and affiliates is no remedy. And nobody is preventing the 'right' from starting their own paper. Every red state needs a blue forum and vise versa. And the Anchorage Daily News 'sold' it's business to the Anchorage Dispatch.


What a joke! After 8 years of Obama we are more divided that we have been in decades! He set race relations back decades and it will take a lot to undo the damage he has done. He was a waste of time with no accomplishments of value. Of course the left will attempt to gloss over all the damage he has done and make him look like a sick hero.. Hillary would have been as bad or worth.. At least with Trump we have a chance to fix what Obama broke AND move forward..


State of the Nation  !  Zero.