Legislature is 15 days away from sine die
LaFrance gets support from anti-gun group in Washington State
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Kristallnacht University
If you have an opinion on the state of American universities, be sure to answer the Question of the Week further down in the newsletter.
Portland State’s anarchists are keeping the campus closed for a second day and protesters have stocked up on supplies. Police were asked to remove them but have, so far, refused to do so.
Police have cleared Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. But this Marxist poetry major who wanted food and water brought into the revolutionaries has had her 15 minutes of fame that will follow her forever: “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation? Or get severely ill? You should provide…basic humanitarian aid.”
Students’ parents paid for food plans at the university, she said, so food must be delivered to them. Roll tape:
Alaska Democrats fight Dunleavy bill banning blocking of roads, runways
Alaska Democratic Party has sympathy with the students taking over public buildings and hates Gov. Dunleavy’s bill that puts public safety first.
Senate Bill 255 has penalties for blocking highways, navigable waterways, runways, and other public places. It’s almost like Dunleavy saw this whole anarchy thing coming from a long ways off.
The bill is stuck in Senate Judiciary. Chairman “Mao” Claman is in no mood to move it.
Here’s what the Alaska Democratic Party said about the bill in its fundraising email:
Juneau Assembly votes down resolution calling for cease fire
Voting 2-5, the group decided Gaza really isn’t a local matter. Assemblyman Greg Smith asked one advocate for the resolution if she thought the Assembly should pass such resolutions on all global matters, including conflicts in other parts of the world. She said yes, any and all conflict should be met with a Juneau Assembly resolution.
Candidate LaFrance supported by anti-gun group in Washington State
Fuse Washington has gun control at the top of the list and is giving Suzanne LaFrance its support by running ads for her.
Anchorage ballots in the mail
The run-off is underway, with ballots arriving at the post office in Washington State yesterday. You may not get your ballot until May 7, or later, and that will give you little time to figure out if Mayor Dave Bronson or Suzanne LaFrance will be in charge for the next three years. The runoff ends May 14.
Anchorage starts clearing Cuddy “Family” Midtown Park
The hellhole of trash, pallets, tents, needles, and human waste is being cleared by equipment the city brought in on Tuesday, after posting warnings 20 days ago that the location is going to be cleaned up. Where will the next mass drug encampment pop up and will the ACLU sue to stop the cleanup?
Peltola targets Natives to reverse sagging support
Support for her among Alaska Native grownups is not what it once was, so Peltola is making a push to get Native youth to vote.
Will the Democrat convention in Chicago be a repeat of 1968 or the 2020 riots?
Chicago has a way of getting violent in the hot, muggy summers. Especially during election years.
Biden easing restrictions on cannabis, reclassifying
Ramifications aren’t clear but some probably involve your insurance rates going up as more people use increasingly powerful pot and drive into each other or burn their houses down.
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Wacky in Washington II: Copper thieves undermine state’s EV goals
Washington is one of the highest-crime states in the country. Copper thieves are targeting charging stations, foiling the green climate goals of the ruling Democrats.
Biden rule allows people to sue doctors for not giving transgender drugs, surgeries
All of it paid by taxpayers through Obamacare.
Alaska’s top prison doc is now state’s new chief medical officer
A job that was once nonpolitical has become a lightning rod.
Correspondence schools stay?
The Dunleavy Administration has asked for decision by May 2 on a stay of Judge Adolf Zeman’s adverse ruling against correspondence school students. A stay would put his decision on hold until the Supreme Court of Alaska rules.
The State asked for an indefinite stay of the ruling, since families are irreparably harmed by Zeman’s decision that the state can’t pay for correspondence education, but the National Education Association plaintiffs have asked for just a two-month stay, hoping to get past this school year and thinking that maybe people will forget all about it during fishing season. Stay tuned.
Who has filed
Former Rep. David Nelson has filed to run against Rep. Cliff Groh, House District 18. Nelson served the general area before redistricting, and so this is a rematch. Groh is now 70 years old.
Nelson served in the Alaska Army National Guard, reaching the rank of second lieutenant. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Alaska Anchorage and was president of the Midtown Rotary Club of Anchorage.
Without comment
Question of the week
This day in history
May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. Due to a time difference, it was on May 2, 2011 that the military operation by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six took place, when bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Ashley Hayek on STAND podcast: America First Patriots are a force more powerful than any elite few
No one is coming to save us. Americans have to stand up and fight for America.
Columns
Bidenomics has been a disaster for Alaskans
Meanwhile, Alaska’s only member of the House of Representatives, Mary Peltola, has been voting with the president in support of these policies over 90% of the time.
Column: It’s time to help victims, improve justice, and at no cost to the state
Victims should not have to testify and relive their trauma, authors say.
Dave Bronson: A call for Assembly action on Anchorage’s homeless crisis
The Anchorage Assembly has voted against every one of the mayor’s proposals to address homelessness, while at the same time publicly denouncing that he has not proposed any solutions.
David Eastman: Alaska’s Ethics Committee engages in election interference, violates ethics laws
Those who judge the ethics of lawmakers should be above reproach.
David Boyle: Senate teams with teachers’ union to kill student opportunities
What they are cooking up in the Senate for homeschoolers is petty stank.
David Boyle: Education industry tries an end run around the courts
Hayden Ludwig: Automatic voter registration exists to keep Democrats in power. Why aren’t Republicans fighting it?
A great column by Hayden Ludwig on automatic voter registration and moves by Democrats to expand it.
Jubilee Underwood, candidate for Alaska House, on the Must Read Alaska Show
Meet the president of the Mat-Su Borough School Board.
Rick Whitbeck: Biden destroying Alaska economy for sake of reelection
It almost looks like Biden has a personal vendetta against Alaska.
Win Gruening: Huna Totem dock project inches forward, Assembly decisions await
Will government stall out the project at the behest of the never-cruisers?
Robert Seitz: Railbelt utility, electricity, gas, and how we move forward
No other single solution can help keep energy prices stable enough to move our economy forward.
Dan Sullivan: Biden helps Iran, hits Alaska
Why does Biden destroy everything he touches?
Tim Barto: SB 240 excludes parents further, as government takes full control of kids, per Sen. Giessel rewrite
Uncontrolled access to your children by counselors you’ve never even heard of. What could possibly go wrong in school counselors’ offices?
Eric Carter: Homeschoolers, close ranks!
Parents need to make no exuse for wanting to home school their children.
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