Photo by Lt. Scott Kellerman, at Pillar Mountain on Kodiak Island. He titles this “Timing is Everything.” Indeed, it is.
June 19 — In Alaska, nearly 26% of all jobs are government jobs; more than 15,500 jobs in Alaska are federal. While the State of Alaska is open for business, the feds and Anchorage Municipal government are shut down.
Also, banks and financial institutions are closed and there’s no stock trading as a consequence.
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill passed by Congress to set aside June 19th as a paid holiday for government workers. The last federal holiday to be declared was Martin Luther King’s birthday, and that was in 1983.
Happy Juneteenth, the day that celebrates the end of working without getting paid by paying government workers to not work.
Good morning from Somewhere in Alaska!
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Summer is almost here: Ted Steven International Airport officially reached 70 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in 2023.
State budget: Gov. Mike Dunleavy has 11 days to sign the Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
Quintillion wins $89 million federal grant to extend fiber optic cable
Quintillion, the Alaska telecom company that suffered a fiber optics line break at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean this month, has won a major grant of $89 million from the “National Telecommunications and Information Administration Middle Mile Fund.”
How low can they go? Sen. Hughes gets bizarre thank you letter from Satanic Temple
The letter thanked her because a donation had been made to the satanic center in her name. The letter said that the donation would go toward the group’s “Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic,” which provides satanic abortion rituals.
Update: Rep. Sarah Vance also received a thank-you letter from the Satanic Temple, too.
Daniel Ellsberg, leaked Pentagon Papers to Sen. Mike Gravel, dead at 92
Was Ellsberg a hero or a traitor? Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel thought the former, while some critics held to the latter.
Gallup poll: America shifts to the right
Just when it seems the entire nation has gone off the rails with identity politics, Gallup has revealed a notable shift in the social ideology of Americans, with more identifying as very conservative or conservative on social issues.
Jim Tweto, legendary Alaska bush pilot, and one other person dies in Cessna that crashed in Western Alaska
Tweto was well known in Western Alaska and was one of the good guys. His plane went down shortly after takeoff.
Question of the Week
Dodgers dodge, honor anti-Catholic hate group a full hour before first pitch, as protesters gather outside
The Los Angeles Dodgers were mired in controversy on Friday night, presenting an award to the anti-Catholic hate group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, made up of painted-up, sexualized men demeaning Catholic nuns by dressing as members of a holy order, mocking Christ. The team’s decision to honor this group was met with a crowd of several thousand gathering outside the stadium to protest the team’s ugly statement.
Frontiersman, Anchorage Press gets new publisher: David McChesney
David McChesney joined Wick Communications as publisher of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman in Wasilla. His first day is June 19. Unmentioned in the news release is that McChesney is also the new publisher for the alt-left Anchorage Press.
Analysis: Legislature could not muster the numbers to defend children
The first session of the 33rd Alaska Legislature passed the third lowest number of bills in its history, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But there were also opportunities for the Legislature to support traditional family values and promote common sense, and it failed to do that.
Wasilla man captured after home invasions, sexual assaults in Soldotna
He has a history of felonious activities in Wasilla. But creepy…
Nikki Rose runs for Alaska Republican Party chair
Republican activist Nikki Rose of Anchorage has decided it is time for a change of leadership at the Alaska Republican Party. Rose served as chief of staff for Sen. Roger Holland and ran for Assembly in 2018. She thinks it’s time for Ann Brown to retire and for the next generation of leadership to take over the ARO. How about her? She’s the first to announce her candidacy for the chair; the election will be at the Alaska Republican Party’s convention, April 18-20, 2024. Word on the street is that Brown is not going to run for reelection.
Anchorage Assembly approves $2.4 million payout on navigation center
The Assembly gave away tons of money to sketchy organizations during the Covid pandemic. But Assemblyman Chris Constant says a rounding error level payment of $2.4 million is going to be just awful for property taxpayers. Cannot make this up.
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This day in history
June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for espionage.
Columns
Downing in Daily Caller: Woke bubble about to burst
Oil companies are returning to the basics, and Americans have had enough of the woke agenda.
David Ignell: A mentor for Democrats who care about justice
The flawed judicial system is at the root of the problem in Alaska. A remembrance of the words of Edgar Paul Boyko, former attorney general, who said, “There’s a number of reforms that are crying out to be made in the judicial sy
stem in this state.” He said many constitutional delegates didn’t know much about running a state and we had “some ultra-liberals in there who had ideas that have now been disproven across the world … They created some really horrible things.”
Downing: It’s pump-and-dump as the ‘woke bubble’ is about to burst
From Starbucks to Exxon to the kids in Burlington, Mass. chanting their pronouns are “USA,” we are seeing the beginning of the collapse of peak woke.
Rick Whitbeck: Eco extremists keep guessing — and keep getting it wrong
The dire predictions keep coming, and never get here. It would be comical if it were not so damaging to the American economy.
Alaska oil: $76.82
Henry Hub gas: $2.53
Alaska North Slope Production: 457,519
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $78,248,500,000
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