Don't miss this issue: Video tour of SLAZ sprawl, and Alaska Children's Trust has some explaining to do
Also, watch a video about the Indigenous Law of the Sea that some Natives claim is legit, how 'salmon are our relatives,' and the latest laugh from the local dying paper
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Your Must Read Alaska editor deserves a day off, or at least a few hours, right?. It will be a light-duty day here at MRAK newsroom, but we’ll be back Tuesday, ready for the fray.
Welcome to La Franckorage: A multi-media tour of summer in Alaska’s largest vagrant encampments
Part I: We have video and photos for you showing what hard drugs, pot, and alcohol have done to Alaska’s largest city. It’s decaying from within.
Video: Come with us as we walk through the Suzanne LaFrance Autonomous Zone (SLAZ)
Part II: You going to have to watch where you step and don’t make eye contact with meth-heads as you come with us on this video walk-through. This is SLAZ, across from Davis Park, and it’s filled with filth. A true health crisis.
New Anchorage law targets illegal fires amid rising wildfire risk and vagrant camp sprawl
First view the videos, then ask yourself if the vagrants are really going to obey the new law.
Memorial Day events
It’s not about sales. It’s about what was purchased with lives of American warriors.
Alaska Children’s Trust has some explaining to do …
Check out the board and staff of the ACT — all using gender pronouns in the latest woke style.
Now check out where Alaska Children’s Trust money is going….
Let’s take a look at ACT’s funders:
$250,000 and above
State of Alaska -
Dept of Health
$100,000 - $249,999
Georgetown University
Municipality of Anchorage
Saltchuk Companies
State of Alaska - DCCED
$50,000 - $99,999
Annie E Casey Foundation
Alaska Community Foundation
Alliance for Early Success
STEM Next Opportunity Fund
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
$25,000 - $49,999
Carol H. Brice Family Center
Costco Wholesale
Mat-Su Health Foundation
State of Alaska - Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Richard L. & Diane Block Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
Afterschool Alliance
Alaska Airlines
Alaska529
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
Carrs Foundation
ConocoPhillips Alaska
Cook Inlet Tribal Council
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
First National Bank of Alaska
Marathon Petroleum
Northern Star Resources Limited
Providence Health & Services
Susan & Jim Reeves
Seattle Foundation
(Calling Gov. Dunleavy — we found a line-item for you.)
Alaska joins 23-state legal showdown against Vermont’s ‘Climate Superfund’ law
Vermont is trying to dictate laws to the other 50 states, and 24 attorneys general are not having it, including Alaska’s Treg Taylor.
Troopers confirm recovery of remains of a man who went missing after ATV broke through ice in March
The other man is still missing, presumed dead, and the search by volunteers goes on.
Video: Indigenous Law of the Sea advocate says Native people are only ones with legal authority over the sea, rivers, land
Get ready for crazy-ville. In the video, she says that salmon are her relatives.
Here’s a little clip from the video:
Palmer mayor survives recall, files for reelection
The drama over the former city manager may have finally come to a close. He is going for it again.
The Alaska Legislature has a large NEA voting bloc. Why is that? Former teachers in office
If you can do, then teach. And if you can’t teach, legislate.
Patriots are going to greet Murkowski in Fairbanks Wednesday
She is attending a Friends of Lisa luncheon …. But apparently these folks are not invited and are showing up just want to remind her that Trump won…
Alaska’s left-leaning newspaper attacks Congressman Begich for his vote to end fraud
The ADN never fails to give us a laugh.
Daily Wire report says Alaska budget rock star Donna Arduin uncovered malfeasance at Kennedy Center
They were running fake books and Arduin, formerly of the Dunleavy Administration, has exposed them.
Army tightens reenlistment deadlines, as high demand prevails with soldiers in 2025
Turns out, young people do want to enlist, but just didn’t want to under Biden-Kamala.
EPA plan to roll back power plant emissions limits could upend Alaska’s carbon credit plans
Carbon credits may have been a fleeting fancy. There may soon be more capacity than actual demand.
Defense Sec. Hegseth helps clean Korean War Memorial to mark Memorial Day, while Sen. Murkowski heads to Haines beer festival
The big drinking party in Haines was a big success and Murkowski made the rounds. Meanwhile, the man she
Video: #Don’tMessWithOurKids prayer rally attacked by violent tran-tifa activists in Seattle
It was a prayer rally, and then the Antifa and tran-tifa showed up and started the violence. Read what the police union has to say about the state of the Emerald City.
Quote of the day
“The judicial coup must end. Washington did not endure that brutal winter at Valley Forge so that 250 years later, a cabal of unelected communist judges could force us to empty the worst criminals of the third world into our towns. This is not freedom. It is forced dispossession.” - Stephen Miller
Who has filed
Friday: Steve Carrington filed for reelection as mayor of Palmer. Filed for House: Rep. Ashley E Carrick for Fairbanks, Aimee Williams for Kodiak seat 5.
Saturday: Janice Park filed for Anchorage Assembly. For Senate, Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson of Anchorage.
Sunday: Josh Tudor has filed for mayor for Palmer.
This day in history
May 26, 1868, President Andrew Johnson acquitted by the Senate by one vote during his impeachment trial.
Columns
Michael Tavoliero: Taking back Alaska by restoring the four corners of state sovereignty
Start by taking back education and following the law on the PFD.
Michael Tavoliero: When incompetence becomes evil
“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” In Alaska, evil often triumphs because incompetent men and women occupy the seats of public trust. The danger is not just what they fail to do, it’s what they enable by failing.
Todd Lindley: Sen. Lora Reinbold was right
When it came to Covid courage, Reinbold would not back down. She is still fighting in court today.
Willy Keppel: Defined benefits is a model that punishes families, fails students, protects bureaucrats
We’ve been down the Defined Benefits road before. When oil money was flowing and the state was flush with cash, bureaucrats and union leaders teamed up to create overly generous pensions, promising the world without a plan to pay for it. It became a spiral slide to financial ruin, and by 2006, common sense finally prevailed in Juneau. Defined Benefits were scrapped in favor of a more sustainable system: Defined Contributions.
Linda Boyle: FDA prepares to change Covid requirements and update drug approval processes
Are you paying attention yet? They’re about to change the shot recommendations. The FDA is considering whether Covid boosters should only be given primarily to high-risk groups, rather than to all people. Expected within the next few days: The FDA will come out with a statement that Covid jabs will no longer be recommended for children, teens, and pregnant women. This is a huge change.
Alexander Dolitsky: Cold War missed opportunities and misguided policies led US and Russia to the brink
No one can predict how the Russian-Ukrainian/West conflict will end; but one thing is certain that the Russian government and people do not take ultimatums very well.
Alaska oil: $67.79
Henry Hub gas: $3.33
Alaska North Slope Production: 475,452
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $82,632,000,000
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