Nick Begich files for Congress

Also, the story behind aJeep Grand Cherokee stuck on Knik Glacier

Jul 14, 2023

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Breaking: Nick Begich announces campaign

He was first to file against the incumbent before Don Young died in 2022, and he’s the first challenger to the current incumbent, Mary Peltola. He’s currently the only non incumbent candidate. Just like he was in October of 2021.

NTSB initial report shows ‘unusual wind’ event was factor in deadly Shaktoolik Cessna crash last month

Alaska Is Out To Get You I: Jim Tweto’s Cessna hit a strange wind before it took his plane to the ground.

How did that Jeep Grand Cherokee get stuck on Knik Glacier?

Alaska Is Out To Get You II: How did the towing company get the jeep out? A helicopter was involved, of course.

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Lucy, football — Anchorage Assembly’s Golden Lion hypocrisy

The liberal Assembly wanted the vacant hotel for drug addicts, but now that this conservative mayor agrees with them that it can be used for controlled rent for low income, they won’t fund it.

Spokane spent millions on vagrant problem. Then it just grew

Another city in the Northwest is finding out the hard way — the street people are running circles around the city leaders in Spokane.

Seattle homeless camp has swimming pool, Anchorage camp has skiff

Moving on up: Street people encampments are getting elaborate. In Seattle, someone brought in a blow-up pool. At 3rd and Ingra, they brought in a boat and trailer.

Comings and goings

Doug Tansy, the business manager for the IBEW Local 1547, was appointed to the AGDC board by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, replacing Dan Coffey, who has retired.

Josh Walton, chief of staff to Rep. Laddie Shaw, took leave to sign on as campaign manager for Nick Begich for Congress. Walton is former executive director of the Alaska Republican Party.

Shannon Mason is leaving the comms team for Gov. Mike Dunleavy and is going over to Rep. Mary Peltola’s office, based in Alaska.

Climate change theory of the week

“The earth just had the hottest day in recorded history.” - Democrats and reporters

There is no way for anyone to verify this theory, which has been preached as gospel by mainstream media. Humans have only had the ability to reliably measure the temperature of anything for 400 years. Official global temperature records began in 1880.

Meanwhile, in Anchorage, it has been 17 days straight of below normal, daily average temperatures. June 25th was the last time Anchorage was warmer than normal (0.1 degrees warmer than normal). Bear Paw Festival is going to be a wet one.

Eagle River Bear Paw Festival

If you’re not going to Nenana for the festivities around the centennial of the Interior Railroad completion on Saturday, maybe you’ll get as far as Eagle River Bear Paw Festival. In 2021, about 60,000 people attended. Slippery Salmon Olympics, parade, amusement park rides, and food booths….Check here for more information.

Military moves: Biden authorizes thousands of U.S. reservists to Europe

The timing of this will be left to the Pentagon, but the move has real implications for those in some of the various reserves.

Gun Owners of America sues ATF over ‘zero tolerance’ shutdown of gun stores

The gun shop that sued the ATF all of a sudden got a surprise inspection and the agency is trying to shut it down. Deep state at work.

Secret Services closes investigation with no answers on West Wing coke

The U.S. Secret Service closed its investigation into cocaine found at the White House because of a "lack of physical evidence" 11 days after the illegal drug was found in the West Wing. How will a Republican president ever be able to trust the Secret Service after this coverup? House Oversight chairman has questions. We all do.

Reminder: The FBI has still not found the person who leaked the draft decision on overturning Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision. The Supreme Court in January issued a report saying it could not discover who leaked the document, the first and worst leak in American history from the Supreme Court.

Biden announces new student debt relief plan

The Biden administration will give $39 billion of taxpayer money to 804,000 student loan borrowers. This is President Biden’s response to the Supreme Court striking down his last student loan forgiveness plan, in which borrowers got at least $10,000 each. This plan is for borrowers who make payments on their loans for 20 or 25 years.

Filed for office

- Christine Woll filed for Juneau Assembly, Valley seat

Video: Senators say Biden created largest child-trafficking ring in history

With 8 million illegals pouring over the border in the past two years, an alarming number of them are unaccompanied minors. Where are these kids and who is taking charge of their precious lives?

Question of the Week: What me, worry?

This day in history

July 14, Bastille Day, commemorates the date of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, during the early days of the French Revolution. (It ought to be a laugh riot this year.)

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