Discover more from Must Read Alaska
Good morning from Somewhere in Alaska!
Thanks for being an adventurous reader, a lover of Alaska, and a subscriber to Must Read Alaska. If you like getting this newsletter, please support it!
The Deltana Fair winds up today, as does Soldotna Progress Days. Dipnetting is combat-style in Kenai. In Haines, the Southeast Alaska State Fair begins Friday. We are busy in Alaska trying to maximize summer, while it’s here.
Republicans launch ‘Peltola Files’ to keep track of the Peltola votes
Alaska Republican Party has the receipts. Check them out.
Daily Caller column: Ranked-choice voting in Alaska gave us this
She said she would be bipartisan … but she votes with The Squad.
Peltola message: Union organizer ‘Barbie’
Why she Barbified her new role as union organizer is … embarrassing, at least.
Twitter - X marks the spot
Twitter has changed its logo to X. Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and within 270 days changed the logo from a tweety bird to an X. The guy is a legend.
Check in with www.mustreadalaska.com later today.
House Bill 8 - electric bikes - vetoed by Dunleavy
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, without comment, vetoed Rep. Ashley Carrick’s House Bill 8, which would have classified electric bikes as the same as non-electric bikes. It appears he thinks the bill needs more work.
Mayor Bronson survey: Is Anchorage on right track, wrong track?
Give the mayor your feedback at this quick survey about how the city is faring.
Trump document trial set for day before Georgia GOP primary
The trial will start on the day before the Georgia Republican primary, which is likely to provide a big distraction for a key GOP state.
They’re here: Extraterrestrial hearings to debut in Congress this week
The House Oversight Committee will hold a groundbreaking hearing on UFOs. To put this in perspective, the government is going to have to talk about UFO-UAPs.
Is it a trans-eagle? A beagle?
What is that black bear doing curled up in an eagle’s nest? Alaska bears are poaching and napping on JBER.
Leftist narrative vs. reality: Criminal investigators sometimes need access to medical records, including abortion
When 19 attorneys general objected to a Biden rewrite of health privacy laws, they weren’t trying to track women down across borders where they might be getting abortions. Yet that is the narrative from the mainstream media and liberal activists.
International cycling body bans transgenders from women’s races
The rule change went into effect July 17 following a symposium in June to consider the conditions for including of transgender athletes in women’s cycling competitions.
Grassley closing in on corruption: Joe and Hunter Biden ‘coerced’ millions in bribes from Ukraine power company
Sen. Grassley provides receipts showing President Biden and his son Hunter "coerced" a several-million-dollar protection money from Burisma Holdings to protect the company from the prying eyes of a Ukrainian criminal investigator.
Geologists and pilot doing sand and gravel surveys near Point Lay die in copter crash near Wainwright
The victims were three Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey employees and the pilot, who were engaged in fieldwork in the area.
Bodies of crash victims identified
The remains of three scientists and a North Pole helicopter pilot have been retrieved.
A bridge too far? Dodge rams girder being transported on Dimond Blvd.
His truck lost the bet with the concrete bridge being towed to Portage.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says climate change bomb has gone off
Neglects to mention how much better the lives of billions of people are because of oil.
Filed for office
Paige Sipniewski filed for Juneau Assembly
Britteny Cioni-Haywood filed for Juneau Assembly
Brian Holst filed for reelection to the Juneau School Board
Glenda Ledford filed for reelection as mayor of Wasilla
David Noon filed for Juneau School Board
David Lee Schaff, Democrat, filed for District 9 Alaska House (S. Anchorage). He is a retired labor lawyer and ran in 2022, losing to Rep. Laddie Shaw.
Question of the Week: Will Hunter Biden be hauled into court?
This day in history
July 24, 1959, the “Kitchen Debate.” Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism while in the middle of a model kitchen at the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
Columns
Rick Whitbeck: Deb Haaland is being rebranded as centrist, but facts speak louder than words
Reading the Washington Post profile, one could be forgiven for seeing Haaland as a down-the-middle administrator, tasked with making tough decisions in the best interests of the nation, with no agenda driving her actions.
Hayden Ludwig: Dark Money bought ranked-choice voting in Alaska. Will dark money keep it in 2024?
Alaska may be a red state, but it won’t be for long if leftists get their way. In recent years the state has become one of the Left’s favorite “dark money” dumping grounds in an effort to give Democrats an unlikely edge in the Republican stronghold.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly’s Transparency Deficit Disorder
The Assembly hides its process from the public, adding to growing mistrust by voters.
Downing: Alaskans represented by Peltola and The Squad
But we have a chance for a do-over in 2024, as Nick Begich steps back up to the plate. Second chance for Alaska.
Alaska oil: $83.55
Henry Hub gas: $2.71
Alaska North Slope Production: 415,317
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $79,658,000,000
Must Read Alaska LLC | 200 W. 34th Ave. #220, Anchorage, AK 99503
www.mustreadalaska.com
Subscribe to Must Read Alaska
Must Read Alaska Newsletter