Annual national celebration of High T
Abraham Lincoln's birthday is Sunday, Tanner crab fishery opens in Southeast
As we move into our annual salute to training, physical strength, and men in their prime clashing their helmets, isn’t it great that there is a game like football to take our minds off of things like Chinese balloons, carbon sequestration, and gender transition?
The question now is chili or wings as the Kansas City Chiefs meet the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.
Also, get your tickets now for the event of the season in Anchorage. They are almost gone …
If Biden blew up the Nord Stream, does Russia retaliate?
Investigative journalist Sy Hersh reports President Joe Biden was responsible for blowing up a major gasline system that supplies Europe with heat and power from Russia. If so, it could be considered an act of war. Or, is it a psy-ops operation, with Hersh just a pawn?
Hersh’s story has details that could only have come from Deep State sources, and if there are leaks in the Biden administration, that is concerning. Hersh publishing the day after the State of the Union address by Biden, is a timing-is-everything touch.
Anchorage lost 5,455 students, but budget balloons by $54 million
In the just-released preliminary district budget for the next school year, the Anchorage School District wants to increase the current funding by a whopping 6.4%. The general fund budget will increase by nearly 9%. Fewer students, more money. Does it add up?
Anchorage School Board stops parent reading a passage from a book
There will be no reading allowed at Anchorage School Board meetings, nor discussion of textbooks and library books. By order of the school board. On Tuesday, a parent of an Anchorage School District student read just a sentence from one of the how-to sex books that are accessible to children in Anchorage school libraries. The board shut it down.
But apparently, teaching kids how to send their selfie nudes is still up for debate.
Offered without comment:
In other predation news…
Haines man sentenced for grooming children, producing porn on his farm
In 2015 Chris Panagiotou-Scigliano moved from North Idaho to a farm in Haines. After his arrival, he arranged for several children he had been grooming and abusing in Idaho state to visit him multiple times. It now appears he had already been arrested in Idaho for sexual serial sexual misconduct with a minor boy, had been booked, released, and that he disappeared to Alaska, where he continued his illegal child abuse. The man’s past has been scrubbed from the internet. Ancestry.com links him to North Dakota. It’s unclear how he came to end up on a farm in Haines.
If you’re in Haines, and you have a clue about how this guy managed to slip through the cracks for so long, send a note.
Borrowing for benefits: Peltola says Congress must raise the debt ceiling
Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola suggests it would be irresponsible for America to reduce the national debt. Check out that chart: The national debt is now $31.5 trillion.
Assembly devolves into community bashing, but Girdwood gets its win
In the end, Girdwood residents got what they wanted on Tuesday, if only because members of the Anchorage Assembly think the mayor of Anchorage is too incompetent to execute the transfer of a large parcel of Heritage Land Bank property to a private developer to build more housing in the community south of Anchorage.
Legislative bits and pieces
Rep. Daniel Ortiz introduced HB 65, which would put the base student allocation up to a $1,250 increase. The Senate already has a $1,000 increase under consideration, while the education industry only asked for about an $860 increase. This looks like a bargaining chess board.
Senate Bill 66 by Gov. Mike Dunleavy would increase penalties for sex traffickers by making sex trafficking a Class B felony if the victim is under 18 and a class C felony for adult victims.
House Bill 50, relating to the geologic storage of carbon dioxide, will be in House Resources on Friday at 1 pm. Other than this committee, it will next be heard in Finance.
FBI rescinds report that labels Catholics as extremists
It’s why we keep a watchful eye on these things: The Federal Bureau of Investigation rescinded a report on “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” on Thursday, one day after an FBI whistleblower published the document and The Daily Signal reached out to the FBI for comment. Former FBI agents condemned the document for citing the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing smear factory infamous for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups” and placing them on a map with Ku Klux Klan chapters. What’s at stake.
Price of Alaska oil: $81.89
Price of Henry Hub gas: $2.40
Alaska North Slope Production: 501,835
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $78,551,500,000
Granny’s Guns ringleader sentence for smash-and-grab of 22 guns in 2019
The felon has some other priors including meth dealing, but he get a light sentence, even though he shot at cops. Bad dog. No cookie.
COLUMNS
Patrick LeMay: Newtok, the time to relocate is now
Newtok Village has experienced two newsworthy events within the last four months. In September 2022, flooding and erosion severely impacted the community because of remnants from Typhoon Merbok. A couple of weeks ago, a fire destroyed the school’s power plant. It’s time to move.
Dave Bronson: Everyone needs a place
Reflecting on more than a year and a half as mayor of Anchorage, I realize now more than ever, that the issue of homelessness touches nearly every aspect of our great
city. What I’ve learned.
Paulette Simpson: The ticking demographic time bomb
Currently, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau are experiencing declines in student enrollment. These are not new demographic developments. There’s been plenty of time for local leaders to craft rational policies and plans to address this depressing, potentially devastating trend. But they haven’t.
Alexander Dolitsky: Memories of Soviet pilots in Fairbanks and Nome
The first Soviet envoys arrive in Nome in 1942; eventually up to 600 were stationed in Alaska. Part III of a series.
Robert Wall: Write in Wall for Kenai Borough mayor
Although Peter Micciche is a nice gentleman, he is not conservative and can’t be counted on for mayor, says write-in candidate Robert Wall.
Richard Derkevorkian: Vote for Peter Micciche for Kenai Borough mayor
Micciche is pro-business conservative. Don’t split the conservative vote with a write-in, Derkevorkian says. Vote for a known public servant.
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I am appalled at the incredible ignorance of our understanding of Climate Change and the constant total waste of billions of dollars!
“Between 950 and 1250 AD, our climate was warmer than it is today. Scientists called it the Medieval Warm Period. Obviously, it was way prior to our Industrial Revolution currently blamed for our so-called Global warming.
“A gradual doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would only cause a very modest warming, about 1° C (less than 2°F.)
“Current climate change analysis is based on what is called the Milankovitch theory which, in turn, is based on imaginative interpretation of Core drillings from around the world that are presented as representative of many, many Ice Ages. In fact, there has only been one Ice Age. As Dr. Hebert points out the conditions for an Ice Age only existed following the Global Flood of Noah’s day.
In Reference 2; Dr. Hebert presents the much more probable cause of our Global Climate Change as being caused by the sun.”
First Ref.. - Dr. Jake Hebert, “The Climate Change Conflict, Keeping Cool over Global Warming” , page 8, ICR.Org.
Second Ref. - Dr. Jake Hebert, “The Ice Age and Climate Change, A Creation Perspective”, Appendix D, Page 275 , ICR.Org.