In Alaska, scores of volcanoes and strange lava flows have escaped scrutiny for decades, shrouded by lush forests and hidden under bobbing coastlines.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-02 23:28:442013-06-02 23:28:44A Blast of a Find: 12 New Alaskan Volcanoes
Following an April which was the coldest on record in many locations (including Fairbanks), May was a month with more record events, events that have a spectacular visual impact from space.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-02 20:38:142013-06-02 20:38:14Alaska May Events from Space
There is a study being done to provide information about options for a borough in the unincorporated area encompassing Nenana and many villages in the interior. There are four borough options that have been set out as talking points.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-02 20:27:512013-06-02 20:27:51Nenana Borough and Taxes
After former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said no to the Race to the Top money it looks like Alaska may end up with the Common Core State Standards anyway.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-01 00:01:432013-06-01 00:01:43Alaska is Bringing Common Core Through the Back Door
Katie John, Athabascan Elder and famed plaintiff in the monumental court decision that restored subsistence fishing rights to the Alaska Native peoples, passed away on Friday. She was reportedly 97.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-01 00:00:142013-06-01 00:00:14Alaska Loses An Icon: Katie John Dead at 97
Tea party favorite Joe Miller won the Republican US Senate primary in 2010, but lost to GOP incumbent Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign. Now he’s back, exploring a challenge to Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in 2014.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-31 03:09:412013-05-31 03:09:41Joe Miller Moves Forward With Senate Bid, Appears on Cavuto (+video)
State emergency officials say more than 300 people have been evacuated out of Galena, or left on their own after Yukon River flooding hit the community hard.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-31 02:49:322013-05-31 02:49:32Waters Continue to Rise in Galena Flooding
Lance Roberts, ARP District 5 Chair and FNSB Assemblyman, gives this report on the Alaska Republican Party SCC meeting held in Homer on May 25.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-31 00:00:052013-05-31 00:00:05District Chair’s Report on the Alaska Republican Party SCC Homer Meeting
Over the Memorial Day Weekend, senate candidate Joe Miller’s law office in downtown Fairbanks sustained thousands of dollars of damages in a freak fire that apparently started inside the ventilation system in the office.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-29 03:44:482016-04-11 11:20:09Joe Miller’s Law Office Sustains Major Damage in Weekend Fire
An Alaska convict sentenced to just three years by a Murkowski appointee for an attempted sexual assault on an 11 year old, walked through Alaska’s revolving door justice system and allegedly killed a couple and raped their infant great-daughter this past weekend.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-28 02:39:302016-04-11 11:20:09Alaska’s Revolving Door Justice at Work: Convict Charged in Elderly Couple’s Murder, Infant’s Rape
The Republican Party of Alaska has become a perfect microcosm for everything that is wrong with the Republican Party today. It has all the problems that have cropped up in other state GOP organizations gathered together in one state and taken to their worst extreme.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-28 02:23:242016-04-11 11:20:10Alaska GOP Coup a Bad Sign for National Party’s Future
A passenger on a commercial flight from Alaska to Oregon was arrested Monday after he reportedly tried to open the emergency exit door while the plane was preparing to land.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-28 02:19:422016-04-11 11:20:11Shoelaces Used to Restrain Unruly Airline Passenger on Alaska Air
Russ Millette, host of Alaska Talks Liberty, will be featuring Dave Nalle of the Republican Liberty Caucus and political reporter for the Washington Times. Additional guest Robby Wells; 2016 Presidential Candidate, along with a mystery guest from Fairbanks Alaska.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-28 01:54:592016-04-11 11:20:14Alaska Talks Liberty Featuring Dave Nalle, Robby Wells and Mystery Guest from Fairbanks AK
The State Central Committee (SCC) of the Alaska Republican Party will be meeting in Homer Alaska on Saturday May 25th for their quarterly leadership meeting. It should be a lively one.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-22 02:21:582016-04-11 11:20:37The Alaska Republican Party Coup Saga Moves to Homer
Nearly 50 fishermen were cited for illegal salmon fishing last June. Half of them pled not guilty and have been fighting it in court ever since.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-21 02:10:422016-04-11 11:20:45Fishermen Found Guilty, Although Court Agrees Subsistence Salmon Fishing is Religious
An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.
Russ Millette, host of Alaska Talks Liberty, will be featuring various guests this week. They will be discussing The Future of The Alaska Republican Party. Pleas tune in to his radio show Tuesday May 21st at 3 PM AK Time.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-21 00:38:532016-04-11 11:20:47Alaska Talks Liberty Topic: The Future of The Alaska Republican Party
In yet another dubious move by the Alaska Court System, Judge Stephanie Joannides awarded the news blog Alaska Dispatch an inordinate sum totaling almost 100K in legal fees from the Miller v. FNSB court case. Joe Miller was ordered to pay 85K, this despite the fact that the majority of the fees were billed either before Miller intervened in the case or after they were a relevant party to the case.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-20 03:06:202016-04-11 11:20:47Judge Shafts Joe Miller in FNSB Case
232 days – it took over 30 years for Anchorage to set a new record for the longest snow season on record.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-20 02:21:032016-04-11 11:20:52Anchorage Sets New Record for Longest Snow Season
Alaska’s remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-19 00:14:192016-04-11 11:20:58Alaska Volcano Shoots Lava up Hundreds of Feet
Obama addressed Americans in a press conference where he called the scandal an “outrage.” He announced the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, but Joe Miller said that’s not enough.
China is one of several countries hoping to obtain a foothold in a grouping of nations with territory lying within the Arctic Circle, a resource-rich area of fast-growing economic and strategic significance.
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U.S. Forest Service Geologist Jim Baichtal, who is based on Prince of Wales Island, and Anchorage geologist Sue Karl were looking at some hydrographic surveys, something geologists tend to do. When we were done, I noticed the area from Thorne Arm to Rudyerd had been surveyed,” Baichtal said.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-05-16 03:13:212016-04-11 11:21:13Massive Underwater Volcano Discovered off the Coast of Southeast Alaska
A Blast of a Find: 12 New Alaskan Volcanoes
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Becky OskinIn Alaska, scores of volcanoes and strange lava flows have escaped scrutiny for decades, shrouded by lush forests and hidden under bobbing coastlines.
Alaska May Events from Space
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorFollowing an April which was the coldest on record in many locations (including Fairbanks), May was a month with more record events, events that have a spectacular visual impact from space.
Nenana Borough and Taxes
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Lance RobertsThere is a study being done to provide information about options for a borough in the unincorporated area encompassing Nenana and many villages in the interior. There are four borough options that have been set out as talking points.
Alaska is Bringing Common Core Through the Back Door
/7 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Shane Vander HartAfter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said no to the Race to the Top money it looks like Alaska may end up with the Common Core State Standards anyway.
Alaska Loses An Icon: Katie John Dead at 97
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorKatie John, Athabascan Elder and famed plaintiff in the monumental court decision that restored subsistence fishing rights to the Alaska Native peoples, passed away on Friday. She was reportedly 97.
Joe Miller Moves Forward With Senate Bid, Appears on Cavuto (+video)
/9 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Brad KnickerbockerTea party favorite Joe Miller won the Republican US Senate primary in 2010, but lost to GOP incumbent Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign. Now he’s back, exploring a challenge to Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in 2014.
Waters Continue to Rise in Galena Flooding
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Abby HancockState emergency officials say more than 300 people have been evacuated out of Galena, or left on their own after Yukon River flooding hit the community hard.
District Chair’s Report on the Alaska Republican Party SCC Homer Meeting
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Lance RobertsLance Roberts, ARP District 5 Chair and FNSB Assemblyman, gives this report on the Alaska Republican Party SCC meeting held in Homer on May 25.
Joe Miller’s Law Office Sustains Major Damage in Weekend Fire
/7 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Updates /by News EditorOver the Memorial Day Weekend, senate candidate Joe Miller’s law office in downtown Fairbanks sustained thousands of dollars of damages in a freak fire that apparently started inside the ventilation system in the office.
Miller Responds to Press on Senate Filing
/2 Comments/in Alaska News /by News EditorJoe Miller today responded to press inquiries about his filing to run for US Senate, the complexities of FEC law, and the status of his candidacy.
Alaska’s Revolving Door Justice at Work: Convict Charged in Elderly Couple’s Murder, Infant’s Rape
/14 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorAn Alaska convict sentenced to just three years by a Murkowski appointee for an attempted sexual assault on an 11 year old, walked through Alaska’s revolving door justice system and allegedly killed a couple and raped their infant great-daughter this past weekend.
Alaska GOP Coup a Bad Sign for National Party’s Future
/10 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Dave NalleThe Republican Party of Alaska has become a perfect microcosm for everything that is wrong with the Republican Party today. It has all the problems that have cropped up in other state GOP organizations gathered together in one state and taken to their worst extreme.
Shoelaces Used to Restrain Unruly Airline Passenger on Alaska Air
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Jessica ChasmarA passenger on a commercial flight from Alaska to Oregon was arrested Monday after he reportedly tried to open the emergency exit door while the plane was preparing to land.
Alaska Talks Liberty Featuring Dave Nalle, Robby Wells and Mystery Guest from Fairbanks AK
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Russ MilletteRuss Millette, host of Alaska Talks Liberty, will be featuring Dave Nalle of the Republican Liberty Caucus and political reporter for the Washington Times. Additional guest Robby Wells; 2016 Presidential Candidate, along with a mystery guest from Fairbanks Alaska.
The Alaska Republican Party Coup Saga Moves to Homer
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Daniel HammThe State Central Committee (SCC) of the Alaska Republican Party will be meeting in Homer Alaska on Saturday May 25th for their quarterly leadership meeting. It should be a lively one.
Fishermen Found Guilty, Although Court Agrees Subsistence Salmon Fishing is Religious
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Angela Denning-BarnesNearly 50 fishermen were cited for illegal salmon fishing last June. Half of them pled not guilty and have been fighting it in court ever since.
Alaska Volcano’s Ash Prompts Flight Cancellations
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by RACHEL D'OROAn Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.
Alaska Talks Liberty Topic: The Future of The Alaska Republican Party
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Russ MilletteRuss Millette, host of Alaska Talks Liberty, will be featuring various guests this week. They will be discussing The Future of The Alaska Republican Party. Pleas tune in to his radio show Tuesday May 21st at 3 PM AK Time.
Judge Shafts Joe Miller in FNSB Case
/8 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Opinion /by Thomas LambIn yet another dubious move by the Alaska Court System, Judge Stephanie Joannides awarded the news blog Alaska Dispatch an inordinate sum totaling almost 100K in legal fees from the Miller v. FNSB court case. Joe Miller was ordered to pay 85K, this despite the fact that the majority of the fees were billed either before Miller intervened in the case or after they were a relevant party to the case.
Anchorage Sets New Record for Longest Snow Season
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Neil Torquiano232 days – it took over 30 years for Anchorage to set a new record for the longest snow season on record.
Alaska Volcano Shoots Lava up Hundreds of Feet
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, APAlaska’s remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.
Alaska Conservatives Respond After IRS Commissioner Ousted (+video)
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Lacie GrosvoldObama addressed Americans in a press conference where he called the scandal an “outrage.” He announced the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, but Joe Miller said that’s not enough.
Remote Alaska Volcano Erupting with Lava and Ash
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressA remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, now spewing lava and ash clouds.
China Seeks Foothold in Arctic Group As Competition Heats Up for Region’s Resources
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Patrick GoodenoughChina is one of several countries hoping to obtain a foothold in a grouping of nations with territory lying within the Arctic Circle, a resource-rich area of fast-growing economic and strategic significance.
Massive Underwater Volcano Discovered off the Coast of Southeast Alaska
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by KRBDU.S. Forest Service Geologist Jim Baichtal, who is based on Prince of Wales Island, and Anchorage geologist Sue Karl were looking at some hydrographic surveys, something geologists tend to do. When we were done, I noticed the area from Thorne Arm to Rudyerd had been surveyed,” Baichtal said.