Alaska lawmakers accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of violating federal law by shutting down hunting on its lands during the government shutdown, saying a 1980 law guarantees state residents must have access to the land.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-10-10 01:22:142016-04-11 11:16:43Alaska Slams Feds for Keeping Hunters off Land
Senate Democrats have said they’re ready to raise the debt ceiling with a “clean” bill to avoid default on the national debt. Senators Murkowski, McCain and Kirk signal support.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-10-09 01:20:012016-04-11 11:16:47Senators Murkowski, McCain and Kirk Signal Willingness to Work with Dems to Raise the Debt Ceiling Without Conditions
Someone at the Anchorage, Alaska, branch of the National Weather Service seems to have a very important message regarding the federal government shutdown.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-10-06 00:29:222013-10-06 00:29:22Coded Message from the Alaska National Weather Service? ‘PLEASE PAY US’
The Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently paid $98,670 for the purchase and installation of an outhouse at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-10-03 00:01:042013-10-03 00:01:04Open for Business: Gov’t to Erect $98,670 Outhouse in Alaska
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-29 00:40:562013-09-29 00:40:56Top 5 Reasons ANWR and Area 51 Are Alike
A tiny, federally-funded agency based in Anchorage is fighting for survival, and its biggest enemy may be within.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-29 00:35:282013-09-29 00:35:28Chill Sets In At Alaska-Based Federal Agency After One Boss Asks DC to Shut It Down
Just when you think the media can’t go any lower, along comes online news blog Alaska Dispatch to put the ‘ass’ in class. These folks are proving to be the kind of ‘journalists’ that have to look up to the supermarket tabloids.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-27 00:43:432013-09-27 00:43:43Creepy Trolls at Alaska Dispatch Cyber-Stalk Joe Miller’s Pregnant Daughter
The naïve advice of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-25 00:55:462013-09-25 00:55:46Gullible Green Sailors Trapped in the Arctic
A 77-year-old Southeast Texas man hopes to one day be able to bury the remains of his father after the discovery last year in an Alaskan glacier of a military plane that crashed in 1952, killing all aboard.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-24 00:40:332013-09-24 00:40:33Texas Vet Hopes to Bury Father Lost for Decades in Alaska
For the second U.S. Senate election in a row, the incumbent campaign is threatening Alaska television stations over political ads it doesn’t like.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-23 02:08:192013-09-23 02:08:19Another Alaska U.S. Senate Race, Another Attack on Free Speech
Sens. Mark Begich laughed off the suggestion Thursday that they would vote for a continuing resolution that permanently strips the Affordable Care Act of its funding.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-20 01:55:262013-09-20 01:55:26Sen. Mark Begich Laughs Off Notion of Voting to Defund Obamacare
Police responding to a typed, anonymous note slipped under their door helped save the life of a severely beaten teenager found in an abandoned Anchorage house scheduled for demolition two days later, authorities said Thursday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-20 01:19:592013-09-20 01:19:59Alaska Police Seek Author of Mysterious Note That Saved Life of Beaten Teen
The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement — have armed divisions.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-15 00:46:462013-09-15 00:46:46Armed EPA Raid in Alaska Sheds Light on 70 Fed Agencies with Armed Divisions
An unusually cold Arctic summer has resulted in almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice compared to the same time last year, bucking predictions that global warming would result in the disappearance of the ice cap by 2013.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-12 00:20:412013-09-12 00:20:41Arctic Sea Ice Up 60 Percent in 2013
Given option of a free fishing trip to release fish, angler Dirk Whitsitt decides to take fish home; takes three shots from a .38 special to subdue trophy fish.
Some miners in Alaska want the feds to start digging for answers.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-06 00:24:522013-09-06 00:24:52TINY TOWN A THREAT? Chicken, Alaska Focus of Armed Task Force Raid
Come enjoy hors d’oeuvres & cocktails with our guest speakers, while exploring the “big picture” of what it will take to secure victory in 2014. Topics will include polling & demographics, election issues insight, and candidate assessment.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-03 11:00:052013-09-03 11:00:05Vision for Victory 2014: The Big Picture
In what’s being called the last chance to stop Obamacare, U.S. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are going full-bore to get other senators to sign on.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-03 02:00:502013-09-03 02:00:50GOP Senators’ Petition to Defund Obamacare Hits 1 Million Signatures (+video)
A 10-year-old boy has won Alaska’s annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named “Bob” to officials at the state fair.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-02 01:18:062013-09-02 01:18:06Ten-Year-Old Boy Wins Alaska’s Contest for Giant Cabbages
Sen. Mark Begich stated this week at an Anchorage town hall that Obamacare will never be repealed.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-31 01:20:412013-08-31 01:20:41Sen. Mark Begich Vows Obamacare Will Never Be Repealed (+video)
The National Republican Senatorial Committee Wednesday will launch a robo-call campaign in Alaska targeting Sen. Mark Begich for his support of a carbon tax.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-29 00:35:062013-08-29 00:35:06GOP Targets Alaska’s Mark Begich Over Carbon Tax
The last time an EPA administrator came to Alaska to talk about the Pebble project, in late July 2010, then-EPA chief Lisa Jackson apparently forgot to mention to PLP that some Alaska communities and tribes had submitted a petition asking the EPA to impose the pre-emptive veto provision.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-29 00:28:182013-08-29 00:28:18Will EPA ‘Force’ Another Decision on Alaska’s Native Communities?
A man who recently was mauled by a grizzly bear near northern Alaska’s remote Brooks Range said he recognized the animal that left him with broken teeth and a deep gash in his arm from his guide trips.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-28 00:00:382013-08-28 00:00:38Man Mauled by Grizzly in Alaska Recounts Attack
Alaska Slams Feds for Keeping Hunters off Land
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Stephen DinanAlaska lawmakers accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of violating federal law by shutting down hunting on its lands during the government shutdown, saying a 1980 law guarantees state residents must have access to the land.
Senators Murkowski, McCain and Kirk Signal Willingness to Work with Dems to Raise the Debt Ceiling Without Conditions
/20 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ashley Alman and News EditorSenate Democrats have said they’re ready to raise the debt ceiling with a “clean” bill to avoid default on the national debt. Senators Murkowski, McCain and Kirk signal support.
Coded Message from the Alaska National Weather Service? ‘PLEASE PAY US’
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Eric PfeifferSomeone at the Anchorage, Alaska, branch of the National Weather Service seems to have a very important message regarding the federal government shutdown.
Open for Business: Gov’t to Erect $98,670 Outhouse in Alaska
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Eric ScheinerThe Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently paid $98,670 for the purchase and installation of an outhouse at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.
Top 5 Reasons ANWR and Area 51 Are Alike
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, The Offbeat /by Randy DeSotoThe top five reasons ANWR and Area 51 are alike.
Chill Sets In At Alaska-Based Federal Agency After One Boss Asks DC to Shut It Down
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Joshua Rhett MillerA tiny, federally-funded agency based in Anchorage is fighting for survival, and its biggest enemy may be within.
Creepy Trolls at Alaska Dispatch Cyber-Stalk Joe Miller’s Pregnant Daughter
/10 Comments/in Alaska News, Opinion /by Matt JohnsonJust when you think the media can’t go any lower, along comes online news blog Alaska Dispatch to put the ‘ass’ in class. These folks are proving to be the kind of ‘journalists’ that have to look up to the supermarket tabloids.
Gullible Green Sailors Trapped in the Arctic
/15 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Dennis AveryThe naïve advice of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer.
Texas Vet Hopes to Bury Father Lost for Decades in Alaska
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressA 77-year-old Southeast Texas man hopes to one day be able to bury the remains of his father after the discovery last year in an Alaskan glacier of a military plane that crashed in 1952, killing all aboard.
Another Alaska U.S. Senate Race, Another Attack on Free Speech
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Andrew JensenFor the second U.S. Senate election in a row, the incumbent campaign is threatening Alaska television stations over political ads it doesn’t like.
Sen. Mark Begich Laughs Off Notion of Voting to Defund Obamacare
/9 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Sabrina Siddiqui and News EditorSens. Mark Begich laughed off the suggestion Thursday that they would vote for a continuing resolution that permanently strips the Affordable Care Act of its funding.
Alaska Police Seek Author of Mysterious Note That Saved Life of Beaten Teen
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressPolice responding to a typed, anonymous note slipped under their door helped save the life of a severely beaten teenager found in an abandoned Anchorage house scheduled for demolition two days later, authorities said Thursday.
Armed EPA Raid in Alaska Sheds Light on 70 Fed Agencies with Armed Divisions
/13 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Fox NewsThe recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement — have armed divisions.
Arctic Sea Ice Up 60 Percent in 2013
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Melanie BatleyAn unusually cold Arctic summer has resulted in almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice compared to the same time last year, bucking predictions that global warming would result in the disappearance of the ice cap by 2013.
Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Jolts Alaska’s Largest City; No Damage Reported
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressA light earthquake in Alaska has jolted the state’s largest city.
Fisherman Opts to Keep Massive, 231-Pound Halibut
/7 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by David StregeGiven option of a free fishing trip to release fish, angler Dirk Whitsitt decides to take fish home; takes three shots from a .38 special to subdue trophy fish.
TINY TOWN A THREAT? Chicken, Alaska Focus of Armed Task Force Raid
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Fox NewsSome miners in Alaska want the feds to start digging for answers.
Vision for Victory 2014: The Big Picture
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Anchorage Republican Womens ClubCome enjoy hors d’oeuvres & cocktails with our guest speakers, while exploring the “big picture” of what it will take to secure victory in 2014. Topics will include polling & demographics, election issues insight, and candidate assessment.
GOP Senators’ Petition to Defund Obamacare Hits 1 Million Signatures (+video)
/8 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Cheryl Carpenter KlimekIn what’s being called the last chance to stop Obamacare, U.S. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are going full-bore to get other senators to sign on.
Ten-Year-Old Boy Wins Alaska’s Contest for Giant Cabbages
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by ReutersA 10-year-old boy has won Alaska’s annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named “Bob” to officials at the state fair.
Sen. Mark Begich Vows Obamacare Will Never Be Repealed (+video)
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Randy DeSotoSen. Mark Begich stated this week at an Anchorage town hall that Obamacare will never be repealed.
7.0 Earthquake Strikes Near Adak, Alaska
/3 Comments/in Alaska News /by News EditorA substantial earthquake hit near Adak, Alaska this morning.
GOP Targets Alaska’s Mark Begich Over Carbon Tax
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by DARREN GOODEThe National Republican Senatorial Committee Wednesday will launch a robo-call campaign in Alaska targeting Sen. Mark Begich for his support of a carbon tax.
Will EPA ‘Force’ Another Decision on Alaska’s Native Communities?
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by M.D. KittleThe last time an EPA administrator came to Alaska to talk about the Pebble project, in late July 2010, then-EPA chief Lisa Jackson apparently forgot to mention to PLP that some Alaska communities and tribes had submitted a petition asking the EPA to impose the pre-emptive veto provision.
Man Mauled by Grizzly in Alaska Recounts Attack
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressA man who recently was mauled by a grizzly bear near northern Alaska’s remote Brooks Range said he recognized the animal that left him with broken teeth and a deep gash in his arm from his guide trips.