We have a winner: 'Johnny the Walrus' float

Peltola wants pizza workers union in Alaska

Jul 19, 2023

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Johnny the Walrus gets first place for political float in Fairbanks. Then the parade judge had a meltdown...

The float for Fairbanks North Star School Board candidate Michael Humphrey was a winner of the “Best Political” award. It was a gigantic inflated walrus towed behind a van in the Golden Days Parade on Saturday. Beneath the walrus' tusks a sign read, "Johnny." What is the matter with that? Oh, the liberal judge went nuts on social media.

Peltola urges pizza workers in Alaska to organize so she can have a slice

Alaska’s congresswoman is obsessed with unions. Now, she is actually trying to organize a pizza union. Do you really want to eat pizza made by someone who cannot be fired?

Alaskans for Better Elections turns legal guns on Preserve Democracy

The group has turned into an anti-free-speech litigation center, trying to prevent Alaskans from repealing Ballot Measure 1.

Perseverance Theatre focuses on LGBTQ themes for the season

Theater critic time: The theater has gone off the rails since Art Rotch, the last artistic director, departed. It seems there are no other topics that Juneau audiences are interested in but the tortured, woke, victim-mentality, and tiresome gender ideology themes?

Sam Brinton, accused of multiple luggage thefts, was on taxpayer dime to nuclear security site at time of heist

There’s a lot more about Sam Brinton, nuclear expert, baggage picker, and kink sex coach, than we know. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas … except a suitcase or two….

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Comings and goings

Aug. 1, 7 pm: Edna DeVries School of Government hosts guest speaker Tyson Wright from Operation Underground Railroad, about which the movie “Sound of Freedom” is based. School of Government meets regularly to learn about current events and government matters. It will meet at Real Life Church, 10697 E Palmer-Wasilla Hwy. and all are welcome.

Historic Chilkoot Outpost is for sale

It’s a breathtaking piece of paradise and intrigue at the base of the Chilkoot Trail, and all the specs are at this listing: Wouldn't this make a great retreat site?

Graphite One receives $37.5 million grant from Department of Defense for work near Nome

There are still permits to get, but this helps the company expedite the process. Will DoD’s investment in the mine’s future ensure the government permits in the Biden no-mining era?

It’s Janus time

Mark Janus, who challenged the requirement that employees must join unions and pay dues, will be in Anchorage on July 19 and in Wasilla on July 20. Hear his story and ask him what it was like taking this landmark case to the Supreme Court — and winning.

Five years since Janus won, 35% of AK public workers opt out of union dues

As word gets around, more and more realize they don’t have to pay a fee to the union anymore. Of course, the unions are becoming more radical, in response.

Filed for office

Rep. Mike Cronk filed for reelection for Tok-Interior, State House.
JoAnn Wallace filed for Juneau Assembly.
Nick LaJiness filed for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly.
Tim Doran filed for reelection to Fairbanks school board.
Aaron Gibson filed for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly.
J. Alan Seale filed for mayor of Kodiak.
Ellen Glab filed for city council in North Pole.

Then and now: ‘Bam-Bam,’ Democats’ former legislative aide, sentenced for raping child in Bethel

You’d think that due to the serial nature of his behavior with minors, he’d get more time than that.

Question of the Week: How are you feeling about public libraries?

This day in history

July 19, 1692, five people are hanged for witchcraft (19 were hung in all) in Salem, Massachusetts.

July 19, 1941, first US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

Trump told he is going to be indicted for Jan. 6

He says prosecutor Jack Smith sent him a letter telling him he was the target of a grand jury investigation.

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the Jan. 6 threat to Trump

This statement by candidate Ramaswamy is more eloquent and thoughtful than Trump’s own statement, and it packs a punch:

“The left calls Jan 6 a threat to “our democracy.” But the ultimate threat is when politically unaccountable actors literally *remove* democratically elected officials from office. That's why the pending Jan 6 indictment of Trump is arguably the most dangerous of all to our Constitutional Republic. I believe the federal administrative police state is preparing to invoke the "insurrection" clause from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to disqualify Trump from running, in a way that past indictments technically would not.

“This isn't theoretical: in New Mexico, County Commissioner Cuoy Griffin was removed from office after his election for merely being physically *present* on the Capitol grounds on Jan 6, even though he was peaceful and did not even enter the building. That sets a dangerous precedent for states like New Mexico to try and keep Trump off the ballot, and a prosecution by Jack Smith would only strengthen their argument for doing so.

“It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its chief political rivals.

“We need to know what Biden told Garland & what Garland told Jack Smith.

“We should know whose invisible hand is guiding these indictments, which is why I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demand to uncover *exactly* what the White House communicated to Garland & Smith to target Biden's disfavored opponent in this election.

“We will get to the bottom of it, including by suing in federal court if necessary. I will address this and how we will shut down the corrupt administrative state on Thursday at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.”

Democrats call Republicans ‘terrorists’ in House Appropriations

The Democrats called Republicans terrorists, bigots, racists during the House Appropriations Committee meeting. It was like children stomping their feet and throwing tantrums because they won’t be able to fly “pride flags” over public buildings.

Murkowski couldn’t find anything nice to say about her party

The senator was asked by the Alaska Republican Party to not run as a Republican but she did anyway. She is still in poor standing due to her success in destroying the Republican primary in Alaska via ballot measure in 2020. Now, she says Republicans are too extreme for her and her close associates, according to The Hill. Is she planning to leave?

Alaska oil: $82.02
Henry Hub gas: $2.54
Alaska North Slope Production: 445,273
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $79,550,600,000

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