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
A group of Anchorage Tea Party activists protested GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s fundraiser with former Alaska Republican Party Chair Randy Ruedrich and other Alaska establishment politicos such as Commissioner Dan Sullivan. See the video and pictures here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-03 02:54:422013-07-03 02:54:42Anchorage Activists Protest Against Boehner’s Fundraiser With Former ARP Chair Randy Ruedrich (+video)
A park is public domain, it belongs to the people and while it is appropriate to charge for services rendered, citizens have a right enumerated by our state constitution to access the park without fee for ordinary purposes. Read about how one Alaskan confronted the system and won.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-02 03:06:052013-07-02 03:06:05Shaking Down the Public at Alaska State Parks
Alaska volcano eruptions are entering a more powerful phase. After six weeks of Alaska volcano eruptions reaching five miles into the sky, covering nearby communities with ash and shutting down air flights, there looks to be no end.
Sarah Palin says liberty-minded Americans are “barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party – and it’s precisely because flip-flopping political actions like amnesty force us to ask how much more bull from both the elephants in the Republican Party and the jackasses in the Democrat Party we have to swallow…”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-29 04:21:412013-06-29 04:21:41Sarah Palin: If Amnesty Bill Passes, Time to Abandon GOP
Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Prop 8, California’s successful citizen initiative that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, highlights how important it is that Alaska was the first state in the nation in 1998 to define natural marriage in our own State Constitution.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-26 08:53:592013-06-26 08:53:59US Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Alaska in Driver Seat to Define Marriage
House Speaker John Boehner is set to raise money in Alaska with the former chair of the Alaska GOP that Sarah Palin took on for corruption. Also joining Ruedrich and Boehner is Commissioner Dan Sullivan.
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states no longer can be judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago, a decision that argues the country has fundamentally changed since the racially motivated laws of the civil rights era. Alaska is one of the states affected by this decision.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-26 03:31:542013-06-26 03:31:54Alaska, Other States No Longer Subject to Key Provisions of 1965 Voting Rights Act
This past weekend, the Washington Examiner reported that some very questionable provisions were inserted into the amnesty bill “for Alaska.” Find out why here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-24 05:17:062013-06-24 05:17:06Alaska’s Delegation Selling Out Alaskan Workers … Again (+video)
Alaska State Troopers will try to defend last year’s win over the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on home turf at the 53rd Annual International Police Shooting Competition taking place at the Palmer Shooting Range this weekend.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Katy Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngKaty Miller2013-06-22 03:41:072013-06-22 03:41:07Troopers, Mounties Square Off in Shooting Competition in Palmer This Weekend
A resolution calling for a “Day of Prayer” as a time for prayer for the land, waterways, andimals, and people who use God’s creation on June 21st was passed in March of 2013 by the Tanana Chiefs Conference Full Board of Directors.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-21 03:26:542013-06-21 03:26:54Day of Prayer to be Held across Interior Alaska
In one of the first uses of one of three armored vehicles shipped to Alaska over the last several weeks, Troopers used the “BearCat” to help arrest a Homer man firing a pistol.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-21 03:16:292013-06-21 03:16:29Troopers Use New Armored Vehicle to Arrest Homer Man Firing Pistol
A mountain rescue ends well after a distressed hiker on Mount Marathon called into City of Seward Dispatch via 911 this week and advised that “he was in a bad spot.”
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Governor Parnell’s office made a statement that it would look into state resources being used against pro-lifers on April 2 and would make sure it didn’t happen again. Much to the shock, amazement, and frustration of the demonstrators, it did happen again the very next day. And now, no word on the promised investigation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-20 01:58:442013-06-20 01:58:44Months Later, Deafening Silence from Alaska State Government Regarding Investigation of Assault, Interference with Juneau Pro-Life Protest
Mid-term elections are problematic for the party holding the Presidency; mid-term elections following scandals or highly divisive policy choices are particularly problematic.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-20 01:56:152013-06-20 01:56:15As Alaska Goes, So Goes America?
A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven — or a tropical paradise.
The Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act (S. 340) was approved Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by unanimous voice vote. The bill now heads to the Senate floor for consideration.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-20 00:31:482013-06-20 00:31:48Legislation Finalizing Sealaska Land Claims Advances in U.S. Senate
Rubio and his fellow Gang of Eight Republicans helped the Democrats kill an amendment from Sen. John Thune (R-SD) that would have required the double-tiered fence be built, as current law requires, before amnesty was granted to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants. The only other Republican to vote against the amendment was Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-19 02:44:542013-06-19 02:44:54Murkowski, Rubio Join With Democrats to Kill Border Fence Amendment to Immigration Bill
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.
Anchorage Activists Protest Against Boehner’s Fundraiser With Former ARP Chair Randy Ruedrich (+video)
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorA group of Anchorage Tea Party activists protested GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s fundraiser with former Alaska Republican Party Chair Randy Ruedrich and other Alaska establishment politicos such as Commissioner Dan Sullivan. See the video and pictures here.
Shaking Down the Public at Alaska State Parks
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Mark FishA park is public domain, it belongs to the people and while it is appropriate to charge for services rendered, citizens have a right enumerated by our state constitution to access the park without fee for ordinary purposes. Read about how one Alaskan confronted the system and won.
Alaska Volcano Eruptions Get Worse: `We Can’t Explain’ Says Geologist (+video)
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony SokolAlaska volcano eruptions are entering a more powerful phase. After six weeks of Alaska volcano eruptions reaching five miles into the sky, covering nearby communities with ash and shutting down air flights, there looks to be no end.
Sarah Palin: If Amnesty Bill Passes, Time to Abandon GOP
/25 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Sarah PalinSarah Palin says liberty-minded Americans are “barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party – and it’s precisely because flip-flopping political actions like amnesty force us to ask how much more bull from both the elephants in the Republican Party and the jackasses in the Democrat Party we have to swallow…”
US Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Alaska in Driver Seat to Define Marriage
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by JIm MinneryToday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Prop 8, California’s successful citizen initiative that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, highlights how important it is that Alaska was the first state in the nation in 1998 to define natural marriage in our own State Constitution.
Speaker John Boehner Headlining Alaskan Fundraiser with Randy Ruedrich and Commissioner Dan Sullivan in Anchorage
/7 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony LeeHouse Speaker John Boehner is set to raise money in Alaska with the former chair of the Alaska GOP that Sarah Palin took on for corruption. Also joining Ruedrich and Boehner is Commissioner Dan Sullivan.
Alaska, Other States No Longer Subject to Key Provisions of 1965 Voting Rights Act
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Stephen DinanThe Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states no longer can be judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago, a decision that argues the country has fundamentally changed since the racially motivated laws of the civil rights era. Alaska is one of the states affected by this decision.
Alaska’s Delegation Selling Out Alaskan Workers … Again (+video)
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorThis past weekend, the Washington Examiner reported that some very questionable provisions were inserted into the amnesty bill “for Alaska.” Find out why here.
Troopers, Mounties Square Off in Shooting Competition in Palmer This Weekend
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Department of Public Safety Press ReleaseAlaska State Troopers will try to defend last year’s win over the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on home turf at the 53rd Annual International Police Shooting Competition taking place at the Palmer Shooting Range this weekend.
Day of Prayer to be Held across Interior Alaska
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by TCC Press ReleaseA resolution calling for a “Day of Prayer” as a time for prayer for the land, waterways, andimals, and people who use God’s creation on June 21st was passed in March of 2013 by the Tanana Chiefs Conference Full Board of Directors.
Troopers Use New Armored Vehicle to Arrest Homer Man Firing Pistol
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Homer News Staff WriterIn one of the first uses of one of three armored vehicles shipped to Alaska over the last several weeks, Troopers used the “BearCat” to help arrest a Homer man firing a pistol.
Mountain Rescue Ends Well (+video)
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Wolfgang KurtzA mountain rescue ends well after a distressed hiker on Mount Marathon called into City of Seward Dispatch via 911 this week and advised that “he was in a bad spot.”
Lisa Murkowksi, Quoting Reagan, Embraces Homosexual Marriage
/15 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by BURGESS EVERETTLisa Murkowski endorsed the right of gay couples to marry on Tuesday, joining Rob Portman and Mark Kirk as the third Republican senator to do so.
Months Later, Deafening Silence from Alaska State Government Regarding Investigation of Assault, Interference with Juneau Pro-Life Protest
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Amy WalkerGovernor Parnell’s office made a statement that it would look into state resources being used against pro-lifers on April 2 and would make sure it didn’t happen again. Much to the shock, amazement, and frustration of the demonstrators, it did happen again the very next day. And now, no word on the promised investigation.
As Alaska Goes, So Goes America?
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Randall DeSotoMid-term elections are problematic for the party holding the Presidency; mid-term elections following scandals or highly divisive policy choices are particularly problematic.
Unusual Record-Setting Heat Wave Baking Alaska (+video)
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressA heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven — or a tropical paradise.
Legislation Finalizing Sealaska Land Claims Advances in U.S. Senate
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Mary KauffmanThe Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act (S. 340) was approved Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by unanimous voice vote. The bill now heads to the Senate floor for consideration.
Murkowski, Rubio Join With Democrats to Kill Border Fence Amendment to Immigration Bill
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Matthew BoyleRubio and his fellow Gang of Eight Republicans helped the Democrats kill an amendment from Sen. John Thune (R-SD) that would have required the double-tiered fence be built, as current law requires, before amnesty was granted to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants. The only other Republican to vote against the amendment was Sen. Lisa Murkowski.