Sen. Lisa Murkowski wants taxpayers to pay for a road from the town of King Cove to Cold Bay and the latter’s all-weather airport, purportedly for safety reasons. But as more details are revealed, the road is looking more like a corporate pay-off.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-23 04:19:042013-03-23 04:19:04Murkowski’s Folly: No Road For King Cove
One of PETA’s latest campaigns is focused on Alaska’s Iditarod … again. This one is marked by unbelievable hypocrisy.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-22 03:10:222013-03-22 03:10:22Message to PETA: Stay the Hell Out of Alaska
The House of Representatives Ethics Committee is investigating Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young over allegations of wrongly taking gifts, using campaign funds for personal purposes and lying to federal officials. And this is by no means the first time.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-20 01:38:382013-03-20 01:38:38Ethics Committee Investigating Rep. Don Young Of Alaska … Again
We need your help. We are asking every freedom loving Alaskan to call into the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting scheduled for today at 1:30 p.m.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-18 01:15:272013-03-18 01:15:27This is Your State! This is Your Educational System! This is Your Constitution!
The U.S. is deploying 14 new ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska to counter renewed nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday.
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Royal Dutch Shell “screwed up” in 2012 during its troubled efforts to begin oil exploration off Alaska’s coast, and must improve planning and contractor oversight before regulators will let it return.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-16 03:53:412013-03-16 03:53:41Interior Chief: Shell ‘Screwed Up,’ Must Improve To Resume Arctic Affort
Senate Bill 26 is terrible public policy that drastically alters the sale, exchange, permitting and use of state lands/water. The Governor has this on the fast track. Why?
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-14 00:16:362013-03-14 00:16:36Lazy Approach to Public Policy Remains the Status Quo
Started as a project for the military, the exoskeleton has transformed from a device designed to allow soldiers to lift heavy loads and walk further to one that enables people with disabilities to step out of wheelchairs and stand upright. See the encouraging video here.
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During Fox’s telecast of the Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR race in Las Vegas on Sunday, Fox’s NASCAR commentator Michael Waltrip and studio host Chris Myers displayed their ignorance by ridiculing former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin over words she never even said.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-13 02:48:032013-03-13 02:48:03Baseless: Insecure NASCAR Announcers Pick On Palin For Comments She Never Made
The communities, most of which are located on Prince of Wales Island, said the Sealaska Corporation should acquire lands only from within the “boxes” to which it was entitled under a 1971 land settlement, rather than select from other federal lands “around our villages,” as Murkowski’s bill would allow.
A federal jury decided Thursday that Homer police were not responsible for the gunshot that left a Duluth, MN woman’s young son brain damaged.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-08 00:42:352016-04-11 11:23:11Jury: Homer Police Not Responsible for Boy’s Injury
Mushers are required to take three mandatory rest periods during the race. They take one 24-hour layover any time during the race. They must take one eight-hour rest at a checkpoint along the Yukon River, and the other eight-hour rest at White Mountain, 77 miles from the finish line in Nome.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-06 00:58:552016-04-11 11:23:20Iditarod Mushers Welcome Rest in Villages
Senate appropriators tucked the provision into their defense spending bill last year, adopting an amendment during an August markup championed by Stevens’ longtime friend and “brother,” Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, along with the panel’s top Republican at the time, Thad Cochran of Mississippi.
In his year in Anchorage, Browder has overseen creation of a school budget that calls for about 200 positions to be eliminated.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-03-04 01:27:182016-04-11 11:23:29Anchorage School Superintendent Looking for Exit
Todd Palin proves again to be a class act, giving honor to whom honor is due.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-27 01:34:542016-04-11 11:23:45Palin Donates Iron Dog Winnings to Chris Kyle Memorial Fund
If you’re interested in education in Alaska, read this article. And please get involved.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 00:16:172016-04-11 11:23:55It’s Time to Stand Up for Alaska’s Children
Alaska has more snow, more ice, more wind, taller mountains and lower tree lines than pretty much anywhere else. When it comes to extreme sports in the winter, Alaska is as extreme as it gets. And temperatures in Anchorage in March are a balmy 34 degrees.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:03:052016-04-11 11:23:59Extreme Alaska: Snow-Kiting, Skijoring (Dog-Powered Cross-Country Skiing), And More
Leave it to the incorrigible write-in senator – “Asked whether she could back Miller if he were to win the primary in 2014, Murkowski said flatly: ‘No.'” Spoken like a true member of the ARP State Central Committee.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-20 02:45:222016-04-11 11:24:15Murkowski Says She May Not Support GOP Senate Nominee in 2014
After Palin turned down Fox News’ offer to renew her contract, she spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about her future. When asked what her response was to the mainstream media’s declarations that she and the Tea Party were “buried,” Palin said she was raised “to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-19 02:47:242016-04-11 11:24:19Sarah Palin To Address CPAC In March
The Kodiak murders were the first on any Coast Guard property in the United States since 2001.
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Murkowski, in a statement Wednesday, said Obama’s proposal in Tuesday night’s State of the Union is a sign of common ground.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-16 01:01:412016-04-11 11:24:34Obama and Murkowski Back Green Tech Cash
Democrats were seeking to finish Hagel’s confirmation this week after he cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-15 01:48:482016-04-11 11:24:38Murkowski Joins Dems in Failed Attempt to Force Confirmation Vote on Hagel Nomination For Defense Secretary
“This is the long-term forecast for the state of America under Obama’s failed policies: middle class taxes and death panels,” Palin wrote.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-14 02:57:372016-04-11 11:24:41Palin On ‘True’ State Of The Union: ‘Venal Politicians’ Bankrupting Nation
Is there more to the story than what meets the eye? Are Republican oil tax orthodoxy and the Alaska Constitution at variance? Does Metcalfe have a point? Sometimes it’s good to hear dissenting voices. As the sage once warned, ‘Beware of one hand clapping.’
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-14 01:37:342016-04-11 11:24:44Is BP Cutting Production To Blackmail Alaska?
Murkowski’s Folly: No Road For King Cove
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Citizens Against Government WasteSen. Lisa Murkowski wants taxpayers to pay for a road from the town of King Cove to Cold Bay and the latter’s all-weather airport, purportedly for safety reasons. But as more details are revealed, the road is looking more like a corporate pay-off.
Message to PETA: Stay the Hell Out of Alaska
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, From Joe's Desk /by Joe MillerOne of PETA’s latest campaigns is focused on Alaska’s Iditarod … again. This one is marked by unbelievable hypocrisy.
Ethics Committee Investigating Rep. Don Young Of Alaska … Again
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Sean CockerhamThe House of Representatives Ethics Committee is investigating Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young over allegations of wrongly taking gifts, using campaign funds for personal purposes and lying to federal officials. And this is by no means the first time.
This is Your State! This is Your Educational System! This is Your Constitution!
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Sen. Mike DunleavyWe need your help. We are asking every freedom loving Alaskan to call into the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting scheduled for today at 1:30 p.m.
US To Deploy More Ground-Based Missile Interceptors As North Korea Steps Up Threats (+video)
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by M. Alex JohnsonThe U.S. is deploying 14 new ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska to counter renewed nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday.
Interior Chief: Shell ‘Screwed Up,’ Must Improve To Resume Arctic Affort
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ben GermanRoyal Dutch Shell “screwed up” in 2012 during its troubled efforts to begin oil exploration off Alaska’s coast, and must improve planning and contractor oversight before regulators will let it return.
Lazy Approach to Public Policy Remains the Status Quo
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Tara JollieSenate Bill 26 is terrible public policy that drastically alters the sale, exchange, permitting and use of state lands/water. The Governor has this on the fast track. Why?
Exoskeleton Allows Anchorage Man to Walk (+video)
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Matthew GannonStarted as a project for the military, the exoskeleton has transformed from a device designed to allow soldiers to lift heavy loads and walk further to one that enables people with disabilities to step out of wheelchairs and stand upright. See the encouraging video here.
Baseless: Insecure NASCAR Announcers Pick On Palin For Comments She Never Made
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony LeeDuring Fox’s telecast of the Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR race in Las Vegas on Sunday, Fox’s NASCAR commentator Michael Waltrip and studio host Chris Myers displayed their ignorance by ridiculing former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin over words she never even said.
Nine Southeast Communities Oppose Revised Sealaska Bill
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Mary KauffmanThe communities, most of which are located on Prince of Wales Island, said the Sealaska Corporation should acquire lands only from within the “boxes” to which it was entitled under a 1971 land settlement, rather than select from other federal lands “around our villages,” as Murkowski’s bill would allow.
Jury: Homer Police Not Responsible for Boy’s Injury
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Duluth News Tribune and Associated PressA federal jury decided Thursday that Homer police were not responsible for the gunshot that left a Duluth, MN woman’s young son brain damaged.
Iditarod Mushers Welcome Rest in Villages
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Associated PressMushers are required to take three mandatory rest periods during the race. They take one 24-hour layover any time during the race. They must take one eight-hour rest at a checkpoint along the Yukon River, and the other eight-hour rest at White Mountain, 77 miles from the finish line in Nome.
The U.S.S. Ted Stevens
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Niels LesniewskiSenate appropriators tucked the provision into their defense spending bill last year, adopting an amendment during an August markup championed by Stevens’ longtime friend and “brother,” Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, along with the panel’s top Republican at the time, Thad Cochran of Mississippi.
Anchorage School Superintendent Looking for Exit
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by sfgate.comIn his year in Anchorage, Browder has overseen creation of a school budget that calls for about 200 positions to be eliminated.
Alaska Democratic Party’s Lame Attempt at Demagoguery – Epic Fail!
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by News EditorDemocrats trying to lead folks astray . . . again.
Palin Donates Iron Dog Winnings to Chris Kyle Memorial Fund
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony LeeTodd Palin proves again to be a class act, giving honor to whom honor is due.
It’s Time to Stand Up for Alaska’s Children
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Updates /by David BoyleIf you’re interested in education in Alaska, read this article. And please get involved.
Extreme Alaska: Snow-Kiting, Skijoring (Dog-Powered Cross-Country Skiing), And More
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ethan Todras-WhitehillAlaska has more snow, more ice, more wind, taller mountains and lower tree lines than pretty much anywhere else. When it comes to extreme sports in the winter, Alaska is as extreme as it gets. And temperatures in Anchorage in March are a balmy 34 degrees.
Murkowski Says She May Not Support GOP Senate Nominee in 2014
/22 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Manu RajuLeave it to the incorrigible write-in senator – “Asked whether she could back Miller if he were to win the primary in 2014, Murkowski said flatly: ‘No.'” Spoken like a true member of the ARP State Central Committee.
Sarah Palin To Address CPAC In March
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony LeeAfter Palin turned down Fox News’ offer to renew her contract, she spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about her future. When asked what her response was to the mainstream media’s declarations that she and the Tea Party were “buried,” Palin said she was raised “to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season.”
Kodiak Man Arrested in Killings of Two Coast Guard Workers
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Yereth RosenThe Kodiak murders were the first on any Coast Guard property in the United States since 2001.
Obama and Murkowski Back Green Tech Cash
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ben GemanMurkowski, in a statement Wednesday, said Obama’s proposal in Tuesday night’s State of the Union is a sign of common ground.
Murkowski Joins Dems in Failed Attempt to Force Confirmation Vote on Hagel Nomination For Defense Secretary
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Jeremy Herb and Ramsey CoxDemocrats were seeking to finish Hagel’s confirmation this week after he cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
Palin On ‘True’ State Of The Union: ‘Venal Politicians’ Bankrupting Nation
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Tony Lee“This is the long-term forecast for the state of America under Obama’s failed policies: middle class taxes and death panels,” Palin wrote.
Is BP Cutting Production To Blackmail Alaska?
/2 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Ray MetcalfeIs there more to the story than what meets the eye? Are Republican oil tax orthodoxy and the Alaska Constitution at variance? Does Metcalfe have a point? Sometimes it’s good to hear dissenting voices. As the sage once warned, ‘Beware of one hand clapping.’