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Anchorage Assembly Takes Up Title 21, Accepting Public Comment

January 23, 2013/1 Comment/in Alaska News /by alaskapolicyforum.org

Pay attention, folks. If you are concerned with the government telling you what you can and cannot do with your private property, then you must comment on the Title 21 code being considered by the Anchorage Assembly. If you think the government should be able to tell you how many windows you can have on the street facing side of your house, then don’t comment. If you think the government should be able to tell you how many bushes and trees you should have in your yard, then don’t comment. If you think the government should be able to tell you that you have to have a covered front porch, then don’t comment.

If you have saved enough of your hard earned money to finally move out of rental housing and now want to build a new home to your design specifications, then don’t comment. If you want the government to tell you where and what type of sidewalk you must have, then don’t comment. If you want the government to tell you how large your garage can be, then don’t comment.

If you believe that a small active segment (the spandex crowd) of our population should be able to tell you what is “aesthetic”, then don’t comment. If you believe in centralized planning by academic urban planners, then don’t comment.

If you believe you own your property and the government should butt out with its overreaching regulations, then do comment. If you believe low income housing will be even more expensive and crowd out the 99%, then do comment.

“America’s Favorite Cities Survey” Disses Anchorage

November 28, 2012/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Jill Reilly

Miami has long been famed for its palm-fringed beaches and glamorous nightlife but now it can boast another attraction – its people. The Florida city has been voted home to the most beautiful people in America by a new survey.

It was a bumper year for the Floridians as they were also in the top 10 for their fashion sense and fit physique, although they also ranked as being among the most aloof.

In final place was Anchorage – the Alaska city held onto its last-place position from 2011, and the took last place for style – although local they did come in the top 20 for being both affable and a little offbeat.

The annual results from America’s Favorite Cities survey were complied by Travel + Leisure readers. Readers rated 35 metropolitan areas for qualities such as people-watching, walkable streets, and good music scenes.

In second place for attractive locals was San Diego although locals’ conversational skills were not rated highly.

Video: Two Mature Bull Moose Fight it Out on Anchorage Urban Street

October 14, 2012/6 Comments/in Alaska News, The Offbeat, Video /by Joe Miller

After living, traveling, hunting and fishing in Alaska for over 18 years, I thought I’ve seen much of what the Last Frontier has to offer.

I’ve probably seen hundreds of moose near my home, in my yard and on the street, in Anchorage, Tok, and Fairbanks. And I hunt moose almost every year, hoping to provide my family with one of Alaska’s basic food groups. But I have never seen anything like this in town.

The following video, uploaded yesterday, shows two mature bull moose, fighting it out apparently on an Anchorage street. The video is amateur, but it does an excellent job in capturing the intensity of the fight.

Note the United States Postal Service vehicle waiting for the fight to end.

Rare Alaska Storm Packing 100mph Winds Takes Out Power to Half of Anchorage

September 6, 2012/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Yereth Rosen

An overnight wind storm with gusts of over 100 miles an hour at high elevations knocked out power to at least half of Alaska’s largest city in the biggest outage in Anchorage’s center in decades, municipal and utility officials said on Wednesday.

“It’s incredibly substantial. A huge proportion of Anchorage is affected,” said Dawn Brantley, emergency program manager for the Municipality of Anchorage.

She said she did not know yet what percentage of the city overall had been affected but called the outage the biggest for downtown Anchorage in decades.

Electricity was cut to at least half of Anchorage, including nearly all customers of the utility that serves the central part of the city, the officials said.

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses remained without power by midday on Wednesday, Brantley said.

Anchorage Pays Millions to Settle Lawsuits Over Rapes Committed by Decorated On-Duty Cop

September 6, 2012/3 Comments/in Alaska News /by Yereth Rosen

Anchorage has paid more than $5.5 million to settle civil lawsuits filed by victims of a former police officer convicted of raping women while on duty, city officials said.

The municipality agreed to pay 11 women who said they were victims of former police officer Anthony Rollins and accused officials of failing to properly supervise him, according to a statement released by the city late on Tuesday.

Rollins, once a decorated officer and spokesman for the police department in Alaska’s largest city, was convicted last year of committing four rapes and one second-degree sexual assault in 2008 and 2009, and sentenced to 87 years in prison.

Some of his victims were women he had arrested for offenses such as drunk driving, while others were women who accepted rides from Rollins in his police vehicle, according to trial testimony and court records.

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