Trump VP? Sen. Kawasaki says 'I had a dream...'
Barrow-Utqiagvik gets its first sunrise on Tuesday
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Sunrise comes to Barrow-Ut
The first sunrise of 2024 in Utqiagvik will be at 1:09 pm on Tuesday, Jan. 23. I bet they can’t wait, but their Arctic moon rises have been spectacular over the weekend:
Legislative staff list
Wonder who works as legislative staff for your legislator this session? Here is the current list from Legislative Affairs Agency.
Choose Life and School Choice
It’s a day first declared as Right to Life Day on Jan. 22, 1984, by former President Ronald Reagan, and you can expect a save-the-Alaska-babies rally somewhere in Alaska, most certainly on the steps of the Capitol. Also, this week is School Choice Week in Alaska.
House Rules Committee moves Senate bill forward with ed. funding
It’s unusual for the Legislature to hold a Saturday hearing on the fist weekend, when so often legislators like to go home. First weeks can be pretty slow at the Capitol. But House Rules had a barnburner of a hearing on Saturday.
Peltola puts thumb on scale of competition; Costco opens another outlet
She’s trying to stop a merger of grocery stores, trying to control the free market in Alaska because government is so good at fixing things.
Alaska State Board of Education lowers proficiency standards
Alaska’s students already perform at the bottom.
FAA panel to deal with chronic air traffic controller fatigue
Recent surveys show controllers are exhausted and making mistakes. The union says the solution is more controllers. But the FAA can’t find any to hire. Might be DEI quotas?
Mark Littlefield files for Eagle River’s Assembly seat
He was in the Air Force, then worked for the Muni and has a long history of community service.
Trickle down: Biden keeps Strategic Petroleum Reserve sub-optimal
Although the Department of Energy just bought three million barrels, it’s just one percent of what Biden has drained from the nation’s emergency reserves.
Sports Illustrated, after going woke, now broke
Photos of fake women in swimsuit editions and using artificial intelligence to write stories may have sealed the fate of this once storied magazine.
LaFrance files for mayor, but it doesn’t quite go as planned
She showed up late with her army of sign-wavers and media gaggle, and the office was closed. But she got it done down at the Ship Creek office before it closed Friday. Last day to file is this Friday.
Monday - House and Senate
Senate Finance, 9 am
SB 186 Appropriations: Operating budget, Capital, supplemental, amendments
SB 187 Appropriations: Capital budget, reappropriation
House Judiciary, 1 pm
Presentation: Governor's Council on Human and Sex Trafficking
House Resources, 1 pm
HB 169 Fisheries rehabilitation permit/project, public testimony
HB 177 Critical natural minerals plan and report, public testimony
House Finance, 1:30 pm
Overview: Governor's FY 2025 Operating Budget by OMB Director Lacey Sander
Senate Judiciary, 1:30 pm
SB 60 Repeal Workers Comp Appeals Commission
Senate Labor & Commerce, 1:30
SB 182 Extend Big Game Commercial Services Board
Senate Education, 3:30 pm
Presentation: Alaska Reads Act Update byDeena Bishop, Commissioner of the AlaskaDepartment of Education and Early Development
Senate Resources, 3:30 pm
SB 69 Geothermal resources
Public hearing: Short-term rental licensing, leasing, fines proposed
Entrepreneurship. If it exists, the government will find a way to skim from it. Read the license-and-tax particulars happening in Anchorage.
New Hampshire is live free or die state for DeSantis, Haley
Trump surges in the polls, and DeSantis erased everything from his calendar.
Watch video: The other shoe drops: DeSantis cancels campaign
And endorses Trump, who pounded him repeatedly for the past year.
Who would be VP for Trump? Sen. Scott Kawasaki says he had a dream
Kawasaki once had a dream about Palin being the VP nominee. Now he’s dreaming about who???
We appreciate all generous Alaskans who keep this conservative enterprise going!
Question of the week
Who should be Donald Trump’s VP candidate?
Nick Begich meets with Valley Republicans
Nick Begich, Republican for Congress, met with about 50 Mat-Su Valley Republicans at an event he’d by Valley Republican Women of Alaska. He fielded questions, asked questions, and seemed to have the strong support of the group that is one of several Valley conservative organizations that will be influential this year.
Watch: Saturday Night Live spoofs Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Watch the video from the first new show of the season. Funny skit.
Read: Final Coast Guard report on 2019 sinking of Scandies Rose
The captain made the decision not to seek shelter during the storm. A true tragedy resulted.
This day in history
Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade, which said a Texas law criminalizing abortion violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy.
Columns
Linda Boyle: Get ready for mysterious Disease X
World Economic Forum has some plans for worldwide regs.
David Boyle: Anchorage schools push parents to back of bus on gender reveals
You’re a parent in Anchorage, you say? Well, then listen up: You have no say about what they call your child at school. No say over the name or the gender or the bathroom your child uses.
Curtis Schube: The dangerous world being ushered in by the Securities and Exchange Commission
It a new thing called “Natural Asset Companies” that can lock up productive land, buying it from the government and putting it into preserve status forever, like a land trust for profit. Even foreign governments could take part in the scheme.
Evelyn Dutton: Education freedom and school choice
School Choice Week is ahead. Read this personal story from Evelyn Dutton of Anchorage — and be encouraged.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel-Gaza war would be over if…
If Hamas surrendered and returned hostages. So why don’t they?
Alaska oil: $79.16
Henry Hub gas: $2.52
Alaska North Slope Production: 474,141
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $77,767,300,000
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