Murkowski, with a long track record of breaking her own word, hopes to convince some of her Republican colleagues to take a page out of her playbook and break their pledges on LOST during the lame duck session of Congress this fall.
The other primary race that is of interest in the Valley is the three-way Republican Primary between Ralph Seekins, Click Bishop and a Valley political newbie, David Eastman. Seekins and Bishop are both well know in the Fairbanks area and Eastman is known more in the Valley. What is unknown is how Bishop will play […]
Alaska’s primary election is one of the most important in the history of our state. Alaska is at a watershed moment when a very small percentage of voters will literally chart the course of the future of our State. This primary will decide if the current gang of Democrats and their minority of Republican enablers will continue to dominate the State Senate and thus further bankrupt Alaska.
Menard has passed only two insignificant bills, the Marmot Day bill, and a bill creating a vanity license plate. She did however passionately fight (but failed) to add a verse to the Alaska State Song. Her own majority member, Senate Finance Chairman Bert Steadman (R) Sitka, said to the Daily News that her presentation on […]
His opponent, Roger Purcell, was the former Mayor of Houston. During his tenure, Houston politics were often in the press, rarely in a positive light. Purcell is most noted for alleged misuse of a police vehicle as mayor, including running lights and sirens while passing vehicles on a road trip to Fairbanks and attempting to […]
A lawsuit alleges that ICE had a hostile work environment and that one of Napolitano’s top aides rewarded male employees who would “play along with her sexually charged games.”
When they weren’t trying eradicate commercial fishing, NOAA’s undercover pleasure were zooming around Puget Sound on frivolous “Booze Cruises” to entertain NOAA employees and their families.
In response to the question whether the “Government controls too much of our daily lives,” 60 percents said they agreed and 39 percent said they disagreed. See the other poll results here.
In a 2009 email to NASA’s climate alarmist James Hansen, fellow alarmist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research asked, “Where the heck is global warming? We have been asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. The Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on [S}aturday and then played last night in below freezing weather.”
Then Trenberth dropped a bombshell: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.
Industry leaders and critics of the administration argue that the president’s energy policies have only curbed U.S. energy independence through high taxes and burdensome regulations and that Obama’s energy agenda has imposed a slew of challenges to domestic energy production. Obama’s NPR-A plan is more of the same double-speak, keeping broad swaths of oil-rich land from development.