The Alaska State Personnel Board is considering including same-sex partners of state employees in the definition of “immediate family” for purposes of leave.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-26 01:32:222013-08-26 01:32:22Alaska May Make Gay Partners ‘Family’
This past week my wife and I visited Kenya for a mission’s trip with the Christian missionary organization, International Commissions. It was an extraordinary trip, both eye opening for us, as well as for the Kenyans who had never seen a white person before. See the incredible videos here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:20:162013-08-22 00:20:16Joe Miller Returns from Kenya (+videos)
Janet Napolitano will soon be arriving at the University of California system office to take over the Presidency of the University of California System. What many Alaskans may not realize is that the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, that testing service that Alaska has joined for Common Core testing, is housed in the University of California system through the UCLA campus. As part of that agreement, Alaska’s Governor also agreed to comply with all data requests and provide them with access to Alaska’s P20 database.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 20:00:402013-08-20 20:00:40Rescind AO 261 to Preserve Alaska’s Privacy
Dr. Sandra Stotsky, a common core expert,explained this week that “Alaska has adopted the same limitations that are in the common core standards. I don’t see where they have done anything different.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-15 22:15:532013-08-15 22:15:53National Expert Says Alaska has Adopted Common Core “but With a Different Name”
The Alaska Democrat penned an open letter to the pizza chain’s CEO on Wednesday, writing to J. Patrick Doyle that he wasn’t particularly pleased by a commercial that appears to dis the fish.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-15 22:04:392016-04-11 11:17:05Alaska Sen. Mark Begich Complains to Domino’s Pizza CEO Over Halibut Ad (+video)
An Alaska serial killer buried three victims in the state of Washington and submerged two others in a lake there but refused to provide many more details about their whereabouts, according to interviews released Tuesday by the FBI.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-14 01:00:272016-04-11 11:17:10FBI Tapes Indicate at Least 5 Alaska Serial Killer Victims in Washington
ConocoPhillips has applied for permits to develop a new field in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a vast unit of federal land that has yet to yield commercially produced oil, according to the federal agency managing the reserve.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-11 01:14:042016-04-11 11:17:20Conoco-Phillips Plans New Well in Alaska National Petroleum Reserve
Many Alaskans may not be familiar with an organization named Achieve, Inc but it has been the primary driver in the implementation of Barack Obama’s educational agenda in our state.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-03 02:46:472016-04-11 11:17:49William Ayer’s Staff at “Achieve Inc.” Wrote Alaska’s Standards?
Democrats and their allies lobbied RINO Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska for more than an hour Wednesday to change her vote on the nominee to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the pressure worked
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-31 14:01:482016-04-11 11:18:00Democrats Successfully Lobby Murkowski to Change Vote on “Explosive” ATF Nominee
The pictures are supposedly convincing evidence for global warming — a camera at the North Pole Environmental Observatory, sitting in the middle of what appears to be either a lake or open ocean, at the height of the summer sea ice melt season.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-27 03:48:362016-04-11 11:18:19The Lake at the North Pole, How Bad Really Is It?
A chaplain at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska was ordered to remove a religious column he had written titled, “No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains Gave all in World War II,” because it allegedly offended atheists serving on the Air Force base.
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Alaska’s Senators Murkowski and Begich are both staunch advocates for the sovereignty-forfeiting Law of the Sea Treaty and complain that the US must ratify the internationalist treaty or lose opportunity to have input on the changing Arctic.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-22 02:05:052016-04-11 11:18:43Alaska’s Senators Murkowski and Begich Both Complain that there is “Stubborn Opposition” in US Senate to Law of the Sea Treaty
For most Alaskans who find themselves the unfortunate target of mosquitoes, the desire to expose skin remains minimal. But now a technology firm based in California claims to have the answer – a patch which makes the wearer invisible to the insects.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-20 21:26:212016-04-11 11:18:48Alaska Needs This: A Patch that Makes Humans Invisible to Mosquitoes (+video)
Senate Majority Leader Rich Trumka, er, Harry Reid held a gun to the head of Republicans on the filibuster, RINO’s like Murkowski blinked, and President Obama and the AFL-CIO will now get their nominees confirmed and the Senate devolves to majority rule.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-17 03:09:032016-04-11 11:19:04Murkowski and Other RINO’s Lose Filibuster Fight – Badly
Murkowski, joined by Orrin Hatch and Mark Kirk voted with 12 Democrats to send the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on to the full Senate.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:26:032016-04-11 11:19:31Murkowski Votes With Democrats to Advance Bill Forcing Private Employers in 33 States to Hire Homosexual Applicants (ENDA)
According to an annual scoring based upon inputs from the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness, Alaska is ranked seventh from the bottom for competitiveness.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:09:542016-04-11 11:19:33Alaska’s Business Climate Continues to Suffer, Ranked 44th out of 50 States
Working in the last frontier often presents numerous challenges but when you are working in the northern most part of the last frontier, the challenges are aplenty. As reflected in this short video, some may surprise you.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-09 02:24:272016-04-11 11:19:42Exclusive: Prudhoe Bay Overrun by Red Cross Workers and They Ain’t Askin’ (+video)
All 10 people aboard an air taxi were killed when it crashed and burst into flames at a small airport on southern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, authorities said.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-09 00:37:152016-04-11 11:19:4410 Killed in Alaska Air Taxi Fire (+video)
An interceptor missile designed to blast nuclear missiles out of the sky failed to hit its target during a test of the weapon over the Pacific.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-07 02:18:342016-04-11 11:19:49Ground Based Interceptor Test Failed, Raises Questions About Effectiveness of Fort Greely, Vandenberg ABM Force
The Alaska Republican Party lost another popularly elected official with the resignation of its secretary, Alicé Leuchte, on July 4. Read her resignation letter here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-05 00:01:172016-04-11 11:19:59Alaska Republican Party Loses Another Popularly-Elected Official
Republican Sen. David Vitter claimed an environmental group tried to skew survey results regarding the construction of a new Alaskan mine, which has recently put Republicans and the Environmental Protection Agency at odds.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-03 03:12:552013-07-03 03:12:55Republican Senator Accuses Group of Bribing People To Block New Alaskan Mine’s Construction
Alaska May Make Gay Partners ‘Family’
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Becky BohrerThe Alaska State Personnel Board is considering including same-sex partners of state employees in the definition of “immediate family” for purposes of leave.
FAA OKs Drones Over Alaska Oil Area
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressThe FAA has cleared the way for unmanned aircraft, or drones, to fly for the Alaskan oil industry.
Joe Miller Returns from Kenya (+videos)
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Joseph A. MillerThis past week my wife and I visited Kenya for a mission’s trip with the Christian missionary organization, International Commissions. It was an extraordinary trip, both eye opening for us, as well as for the Kenyans who had never seen a white person before. See the incredible videos here.
Rescind AO 261 to Preserve Alaska’s Privacy
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Barbara HaneyJanet Napolitano will soon be arriving at the University of California system office to take over the Presidency of the University of California System. What many Alaskans may not realize is that the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, that testing service that Alaska has joined for Common Core testing, is housed in the University of California system through the UCLA campus. As part of that agreement, Alaska’s Governor also agreed to comply with all data requests and provide them with access to Alaska’s P20 database.
Hunter Rescued after Bear Attack in Alaska
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated Press in AlaskaRescuers reach man more than 36 hours after he was mauled by brown bear in northern Alaska’s remote Brooks Range.
National Expert Says Alaska has Adopted Common Core “but With a Different Name”
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Stop Alaska Common CoreDr. Sandra Stotsky, a common core expert,explained this week that “Alaska has adopted the same limitations that are in the common core standards. I don’t see where they have done anything different.”
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich Complains to Domino’s Pizza CEO Over Halibut Ad (+video)
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Judy KurtzThe Alaska Democrat penned an open letter to the pizza chain’s CEO on Wednesday, writing to J. Patrick Doyle that he wasn’t particularly pleased by a commercial that appears to dis the fish.
FBI Tapes Indicate at Least 5 Alaska Serial Killer Victims in Washington
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressAn Alaska serial killer buried three victims in the state of Washington and submerged two others in a lake there but refused to provide many more details about their whereabouts, according to interviews released Tuesday by the FBI.
Conoco-Phillips Plans New Well in Alaska National Petroleum Reserve
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Yereth RosenConocoPhillips has applied for permits to develop a new field in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a vast unit of federal land that has yet to yield commercially produced oil, according to the federal agency managing the reserve.
William Ayer’s Staff at “Achieve Inc.” Wrote Alaska’s Standards?
/9 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Barbara HaneyMany Alaskans may not be familiar with an organization named Achieve, Inc but it has been the primary driver in the implementation of Barack Obama’s educational agenda in our state.
Senators Murkowski, Begich Vote to Confirm Obama’s Radical UN Ambassador Samantha Powers
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ramsey CoxAlaska’s Senators Begich and Murkowksi voted to confirm President Obama’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Democrats Successfully Lobby Murkowski to Change Vote on “Explosive” ATF Nominee
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Updates /by News EditorDemocrats and their allies lobbied RINO Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska for more than an hour Wednesday to change her vote on the nominee to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the pressure worked
The Lake at the North Pole, How Bad Really Is It?
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Andrew FreedmanThe pictures are supposedly convincing evidence for global warming — a camera at the North Pole Environmental Observatory, sitting in the middle of what appears to be either a lake or open ocean, at the height of the summer sea ice melt season.
Chaplain Ordered to Remove Religious Essay From Military Website
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Todd StarnesA chaplain at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska was ordered to remove a religious column he had written titled, “No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains Gave all in World War II,” because it allegedly offended atheists serving on the Air Force base.
Eight Charged in Cigarette Tax Scam
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Kate McPhersonEight Anchorage residents are accused of scamming the Municipality of Anchorage out of more than $1.3 million in tax revenue.
Alaska’s Senators Murkowski and Begich Both Complain that there is “Stubborn Opposition” in US Senate to Law of the Sea Treaty
/9 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Andrew FreedmanAlaska’s Senators Murkowski and Begich are both staunch advocates for the sovereignty-forfeiting Law of the Sea Treaty and complain that the US must ratify the internationalist treaty or lose opportunity to have input on the changing Arctic.
Alaska Needs This: A Patch that Makes Humans Invisible to Mosquitoes (+video)
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by STEVE ROBSONFor most Alaskans who find themselves the unfortunate target of mosquitoes, the desire to expose skin remains minimal. But now a technology firm based in California claims to have the answer – a patch which makes the wearer invisible to the insects.
Murkowski and Other RINO’s Lose Filibuster Fight – Badly
/17 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorSenate Majority Leader Rich Trumka, er, Harry Reid held a gun to the head of Republicans on the filibuster, RINO’s like Murkowski blinked, and President Obama and the AFL-CIO will now get their nominees confirmed and the Senate devolves to majority rule.
Murkowski Votes With Democrats to Advance Bill Forcing Private Employers in 33 States to Hire Homosexual Applicants (ENDA)
/29 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorMurkowski, joined by Orrin Hatch and Mark Kirk voted with 12 Democrats to send the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on to the full Senate.
Alaska’s Business Climate Continues to Suffer, Ranked 44th out of 50 States
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorAccording to an annual scoring based upon inputs from the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness, Alaska is ranked seventh from the bottom for competitiveness.
Exclusive: Prudhoe Bay Overrun by Red Cross Workers and They Ain’t Askin’ (+video)
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Charlie LargentWorking in the last frontier often presents numerous challenges but when you are working in the northern most part of the last frontier, the challenges are aplenty. As reflected in this short video, some may surprise you.
10 Killed in Alaska Air Taxi Fire (+video)
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Cristy Lenz and Justin LearAll 10 people aboard an air taxi were killed when it crashed and burst into flames at a small airport on southern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, authorities said.
Ground Based Interceptor Test Failed, Raises Questions About Effectiveness of Fort Greely, Vandenberg ABM Force
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Fox NewsAn interceptor missile designed to blast nuclear missiles out of the sky failed to hit its target during a test of the weapon over the Pacific.
Alaska Republican Party Loses Another Popularly-Elected Official
/15 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorThe Alaska Republican Party lost another popularly elected official with the resignation of its secretary, Alicé Leuchte, on July 4. Read her resignation letter here.
Republican Senator Accuses Group of Bribing People To Block New Alaskan Mine’s Construction
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Amanda SchallertRepublican Sen. David Vitter claimed an environmental group tried to skew survey results regarding the construction of a new Alaskan mine, which has recently put Republicans and the Environmental Protection Agency at odds.