Cocaine spill at White House
First the topless trans partiers, now the felony drugs in the West Wing...
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Cocaine in West Wing of White House
They’re putting the white in White House. Two days after Hunter Biden was in the White House, it was evacuated due to the illegal drug found in the president’s “work area.”
(It wasn’t in the powder room. Imagine if this had been the Trump White House.)
Crime scene, White House edition
The cocaine could have been brought in by any of staff who have access to that part of the building, including Secret Security or VP Harris’ staff. With all the cameras in the White House, it’s hard to believe the Secret Service doesn’t know who committed the felony But let’s be real — Hunter was in the White House on Friday.
Alaska and 10 other states tells EPA ‘see you in court’ over wood stoves
The EPA wants everyone to change out their old wood stoves for new ones that don’t even meet the standards that the EPA set. So messed up.
Comings and goings
Correction: Gretchen Fauske has left the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development and will become director of Special Programs and Strategy at the Small Business Development Center, working with TREND, SSBCI Technical Assistance, Buy Alaska, to serve small businesses in Alaska. Monday’s newsletter said it was Gretchen Stoddard. It’s Fauske, not Stoddard.
Angie Astle, CFO, was named interim CEO of Chugach Alaska Corporation. The board will conduct a national executive search for a CEO. Chugach is one of the 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
Kris Miller has been named president of MSI Communications and Laurie Fagnani is now chief executive officer of the growing communications firm.
Jennifer Pollard, chief marketing and fund development officer at the childcare referral agency known as “thread,” is the new CEO of the Girl Scouts of Alaska.
Alaska Seafood Company, retailer and wholesaler since 1987, was purchased by Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
Filed for office
Patrick Higgins has filed for reelection to the Anchorage School Board, for 2024.
Bidenomics: Global Federal Credit Union is among many financial institutions laying off lending staff
Banks and credit unions across America are downsizing because the cost of money is forcing Americans to stop borrowing. It’s not just Global. It’s global.
Juneau to host transgender town hall this fall and is developing LGBTQ laws for businesses
You are not going to believe what else they have planned for the capital city. There will be mandates for private businesses, too.
Supreme Court to hear case involving Second Amendment and one creepy punk
Can the federal government take away the Second Amendment rights of a man who has a restraining order against him due to domestic violence? The Constitution does not abridge that constitutional right, so how can it be law?
Old Harbor crash: three survive, two perish on Kodiak Island
The Coast Guard is still working through the details but it looks like it was a typically foggy day in Old Harbor, Kodiak Island.
Update: We’re hearing it was a local Kodiak man and a man from another state were the two who died, while the sons of the man from another state lived and the pilot lived. The plane charter was associated with the Kodiak Sportsman’s Lodge at Old Harbor and it crashed about six minutes after taking off from Old Harbor en route to Kodiak, and not gaining enough altitude to clear the mountain. NTSB and Coast Guard have not released the names or further details.
Man shot by Anchorage police identified as Tok resident Sean Burke
He had a history of drinking, driving, and weapons misconduct. Did he point his weapon? Was he the one who had been firing shots? What a way to end it all.
Whittier fuel dock burns, two injured
There won’t be any fuel for vessels for the foreseeable future in Whittier. What a situation.
Question of the Week
This day in history
July 5, 1950, US forces entered combat in the Korean War for the first time. It was the Battle of Osan.
Columns
Frank Miele: We need a constitution that means what it says
At this point in American history it no longer matters whether anyone can read the words of the Constitution because the words no longer mean what they say. Case in point: The Supreme Court’s ruling last week that state legislatures do not have the sole discretion to determine how federal elections will be run in those states. Instead, state courts are given veto power over the decisions of the legislature.
Joe Geldhof: Juneau Assembly out of touch with taxpayers
The current crop of Assembly members are millennial, not age-diverse, and lacks experience in the private sector. They’re all government and nonprofit types. This is not working well for Juneau.
Daniel Turner: Radical eco-left funds groups like Alaska Center to attack American energy independence
The eco-left is not content to limit their crusade to Washington DC. They are funding local groups in energy producing states to put in place endless hurdles to responsibly extracting energy. Take the Alaska Center, for example.
Downing: They’re coming for your children
It was not a slip of the tongue. Per Marx and Engels, and now Biden and the Democrats, families are actually the root of the problem for the Left. Families must be dismantled so the state can take charge of the children.
Alex Gimarc: The Long Trail is like raw onion on a hamburger — keeps coming up
The considerable challenges are rights of way, eminent domain, and, of course, funding. It’s a project that started in 2006 and is being paid of piecemeal.
Rick Whitbeck: An inventory of the damage Biden has done to Alaska
Even before Joe Biden took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2021, there was clear writing on the wall for the damage his administration would do to Alaska’s energy community.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s 4th celebrates what’s good about America
Legend has it this tradition dates to when the Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island was operating. The mine only shut down on Christmas and the Fourth of July to allow miners a chance to enjoy fireworks, so the show moved to a day earlier at midnight.
Alaska oil: $76.68
Henry Hub gas: $2.80
Alaska North Slope Production: 459,596
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $77,732,900,000
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