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That’s funny - I thought I was “trashing” the difference in judicial treatment between a socially privileged defendant, and the judicial and prosecutorial treatment that occurs for those not so well placed. .. And, what on earth does Jim Gottstein’s public interest lawsuit (that he won, by the way) against the Legislature’s back-door - and fiscally over-the-top wasteful office renting have to do with anything you are ranting about??

Is your real name Dick Cheney?

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Free college would apply to community colleges. Nobody's getting into major colleges and universities for free. "Other peoples money" is just a simplistic catch phrase.

No surprise, socialists want other people to pay for their college. I hope Sanders wins because Clinton is a liar.

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and a racist!

these young citizens are just exercising their rights. obviously anybody who thinks otherwise is a hater.

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Perhaps it was for the best.

My Ex.

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Ha ha ha!

You're good at the internetz.

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And, if you don't understand the difference between male and female, just try to go into a women's head if you are male . . . I know a lot of women who carry and who might be a bit concerned over a man dressed as a woman coming into their domain . . . not right, perverse, ill-advised. Leave my grand-daughter's out of this sick malarkey. Men go to the head in men's rooms, not women's.

LGBT rights . . . the right for males to shower, use the head with females with impunity, no matter what the real motivation might be . . . to gain privilege to assault the 1st to compromise the protections for freedom of religion . . . to force immoral and perverse behavior upon those who want nothing to do with it . . . to replace substantive evidence and argument with 'perceptions based upon emotion' as law. Oooooh, I think you hurt my feeeeeeelings, I'm going to teeeeelll on you! Time for a civil war, folks. The Left thinks this is Europe . . . guess again.

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Having a name you find distasteful does not make a restaurant "openly racist," and the fact that a racist publication makes an unsolicited statement in one's defense does not constitute "seeking the publicity of racist magazines." Pro tip: if the majority of your argument consists of labeling people as "racists," those people become much less interested in attempting a conversation with you.

... yes, feel free to do that, if the author starts an openly racist place and seeks the publicity of racist magazines. Pro tip: if you are bold enough to post something racist on facebook in public, you might really be racist.

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If you don't know her, it's probably not wise to judge her.

Krantz is the crazy lady who owns the restaurant.

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Unfortunately the experience with downtown over the last 5-7 years is contrary to your observations. The fact that downtown has more activity is due to more housing in the downtown area. Downtown IS revitalized, and is night and day from the late 90's through early 2000's. There are tons of restaurants downtown, along with art galleries, shops and other businesses. I work in downtown and am there every day, and have been for the past 12 years and it's a perfectly fine space. Would it be better with more variety? I totally agree with you that it would, but until there is more mass there (read: people in the area) that's not likely to happen.

After reading the comments posted here at the end of the article, I agree that the last thing that we need is more student housing, let alone apartments in the downtown or campus are. For the past 20 so years Eugene has been trying to update and revitalize a dying downtown. Trying to encourage people...not businesses to, come downtown. But let's look at what campus and downtown have to offer us, bars bars tea house bars sushi and a couple boutiques. When I was in my twenties...bars all day every day. But know, why would I want to go to a location that wants to drowned itself in apartments and bars? Hey Eugene!!! How about bringing some big name shopping stores. Let's give the population and the student body that you are trying to get to live in Eugene more than bars and apartments. Let's start building a customer clientele in those locations instead of trying to force a living space where there is nothing to do.

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RG, curious to what culinary school did you attend to make these unappetizing inedible word salads?

You must have missed Federalist no 11. On navigation, commerce, and fishing, where even the salmon are non-residents of this state in Confusion. William H. Seward had his throat slit on Good Friday. The 99 year anniversary? Citizenship, where Alaska always thinks their First, on Good Friday. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was reported from all over the earth, near College Fjord in Prince William Sound.

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At no time do you ever have anything remotely intelligent to offer public debate. That would require intelligence. neither do you know how to be a man, and man up when your ignorance is addressed with irrefutable fact. That would require character. What a daft deluded fool like you fails to understand is the fact you are the political twin of right wing Christian nut cases.

Tsk tsk. Here, have a snickers bar. That didn't work? Here, have a dozen and if that doesn't work try a Rush Limbaugh cocktail but keep the pill count under 40!

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Very well said.

I don't understand the hostility behind pipelines. Interestingly Tommy Douglas (the father of medicare) in his inauguration speech talked about paying for national healthcare by exploiting the natural resources. The nation needs business to create a tax base to pay for the benefits we enjoy. If BC truly was against pipelines for environmental reasons they should stop exporting coal. Pipelines are the safest and most efficient way of transporting oil, double hulled tankers have proven to be safe, granted nothing is perfect. However, if you enjoy the benefits of the tax, if you enjoy heat, gas in your car, your cell phone all this is from oil, it needs to move. We are a energy based world, so if you are against it please identify exactly what you are willing to live without, what government services and where will you take 30% of your energy consumption out of your lifestyle. Please, I request someone to respond to this post with a concrete idea other than noisy rhetorical statements.

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They really believe that they deserve it all on a silver platter just for graduating college...

~exactly~!, I have met very few who were willing to put forth the effort required. most just want it all handed to them yesterday.

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Uhm...don't look now, Hood, but yer Republican majority has already gutted seniors public assistance, taken college scholarships, and is now expecting municipalities to pick up public employees' pension fund. The legislative session isn't over and there's more kick the fiscal can down the road coming down the pike.

Rep Seaton is the same person who introduced a 15% state income tax last year. He also introd a bill to do away with the senior property tax exemption this year. Acts like a liberal, must be a liberal

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"Wyatt Earth" is a troll. Don't feed the trolls and they go away. They thrive on getting people's responses to their leading posts so they can post more of their blather.

Then why comment? Why not wait until there is more detail?

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Bravo!

So one might guess that you quite often illegally park and throw away any parking tickets? Because those of us who don't get parking tickets really don't see a problem with The Government collecting unpaid fines on those who do.....and then disregard the tickets.

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Though we do have many seasonal workers and tourists who depend on the library for internet, our most consistent users of the library computers and internet are year-round community members. Internet at the library is currently being provided by TelAlaska, but has been provided by GCI previously.

In Cooper Landing the most use is by Princess Lodge employees and other seasonal workers, many of whom are from eastern europe and out of state. Their is no incentive for their employer to offer this as a job benefit, it is for guests only. This cut might cause the Princess workers to demand it from their employer. Cooper Landing Internet is served by Interior Telephone, for a price approaching rural Alaska.

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Yes, I am blaming Walker. Not for starting these problems. But for not having the vision, backbone or leadership to put and end to these wasteful mistakes. He could stop them, but he won't. Heck, just last summer they were building the northernmost section of the Houston to Pt. Mac railroad to nowhere. This project to nowhere construction was happening even when the state fiscal budget is $4 billion in the hole. Walker knew about this, but he didn't stop it. Walker deserves lots of blame.

So you are blaming Walker for the Taj Mahawker, KABATA, road to nowhere etc? The republican majority needs to be held accountable not Gov. Walker. They are the ones who are causing this mess.

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You insulted my ego. I shower when I'm fishing. Who said I bath tub?

Where do you get "or select special privileges" out of Article 8? And since you transferred your S01A Limited Entry away, I suppose you're not worth any fisherman's or processors time. A non economic theorist, also defined in Grunert "The Chignik cooperative fishery scheme was incompatible with the limited entry system “because it allow [ed] people who [were] not actually fishing to benefit from the fishery resource.”..The board urges us to read Grunert I narrowly, and suggests that Grunert I only identified one fatal flaw-the lack of meaningful, active participation by all fishers-in an otherwise valid regulatory regime."

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Stranger things have happened.

Comments like that of Pork are of no value and quite insulting. Suggesting that Rogoff might have been intoxicated is over the top and shows your ignorance of flying. Do you really think that the owner of Alaska's largest paper would fly a complex aircraft while under the influence to the former LG's wedding where many Alaskan politicians and govt officials were present and could observe her? You might wish to retract your libelous comment.

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excellent points Bill. It's clear the skills needed to hold a stable job in the US have changed a bunch. Whe I evaluated employee's (in the corp I worked for), I gave about equal weight to skill and effort. I love to praise the highly successful person, but let's face it, it most things people make a nice little bell curve. That doesn't mean that I couldn't honor an honest effort, with good relationship in the group, a positive attitude.... The only time I worked in a union environment was the Junction City Canery right out of high school. The pulled my union fee and I never blinked, it beat the heck out of pickup filberts off the ground. I treated union fees, like tax's. I only look at what i bring home, the rest is what I pay for services to live in my city, state, country. (like everybody else I get angry with waste or corruptions, using my tax's). I'm not anti paying tax's, I just want them spent wisely.

Which one has the most leverage in a hiring situation depends on the supply and demand situation of employees. If the employee has a particular skill set that is not easily found, they have the advantage. I admit that most of the time, it is tilted towards the employer. I also agree that if you treat your employees right, unions are unnecessary and will not thrive.

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That's a typo, it's 41-19, click on the first gov link, takes you to the Oregon gov web page listing the vote.

The vote in the House couldn't have been 41-29. That adds up to 70. There are only 60 state reps.

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I find the comments interesting. Obomba makes some snarky comments, without calling anyone names, questioning their ability to think or making derogatory comments about their belief system. Yet the one who does all of the above states that he is being civil. Interesting.

Well, let's see...perhaps all that corporate welfare that goes to the obscenely wealthy proto-fascist business elites to which you toady, apparently because your religion mandates that you worship them, could instead actually be used to educate the next generation to where they know better than to act, speak and think (last term used in its broadest possible sense) like your esteemed self, sir. Here endeth the lesson. I'm being civil.

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You realize most of us want higher taxes, right? It seems like you think that revenue being lower is a good thing.

Great work Devin! YES on 8! The chart Devin Kelly included in this pretty much tells the whole story. Under the YES on 8 tax cap method, (endorsed by Mayor Sullivan), property taxes would certainly be lower than the new method endorsed by Mayor Berkowitz. If taxpayers needed any more evidence: The AFL-CIO is financing the majority of the radio ad campaign against Prop 8: https://aws.state.ak.us/ApocReports/CampaignDisclosure/View.aspx?ID=14945 Anyone think the AFL-CIO would invest $6,000 into an effort that saves taxpayers money? Me neither. YES on 8!

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..so tired of your shilling for the oil credits longtalker..

He wants everyone to pay their way, but when the state makes the borough, city, or town pay its way, that is bad? One way or the other, the costs either get cut or more taxes are ladled on. I would rather it be my local government, then the state to be collecting the taxes. If it is the state, then they have to take their slice before passing it along to local government. If it is local, I have a say on how it is assessed and I am paying directly, not through a middle man. So tired of Dermot. He needs to take a break.

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Wildlife refuge is the key word here, Leaphart.

Hey there Wavemaker - how is the King Cove to Cold Bay road remotely connected to ANWR? You do understand that the two locations are some 1000 miles apart, don't you?

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by their own people to end the dog meat industry there. While it is completely possible that some immigrants ate dogs when coming here- in some isolated cases, however the tone of Stewart's comments paint this with a very wide brush and condescending- suggesting these people ate nothing but dogs out of their own ignorance and kept warm by burning their homes down. That is ridiculous. It is a touchy subject with Asian communities because it apparently is part of their native culture. But even that is changing. People in these Asian countries do have dogs as pets. They also breed the dogs as working dogs on farms, hunting and guarding property.

This seems rather ironic in that in this past week the big story in Portland's pet advocacy world is that an animal shelter here rescued dogs all the way from a dog meat farm in Korea. Eating dogs is common in China, Korea, and Viet nam, as well as the Philippines. And over the years during the past three decades I can remember reading sporadic news stories of cases where someone from one of these cultures here in this country was eating dogs. In the 90s I worked for a Chinese computer company in California. I asked one of my co-workers who was a Chinese citizen if he had ever eaten dogs. He hesitated and then said when he was in the army there, it was something that was done on a dare to show your manhood, or something to that effect. But in the last ten years the internet has shown us dogs hanging on meet hooks in markets in China, and Korea, and very large dog meat processing plants and farms. The tide is starting to turn and there is a movement in these countries by their own peep

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Continuing our practice, we'll only see more and wider roads, less quality of life, more conversion of arable land to housing, more pollution and death from it, more reliance on fossil fuels, $700 million a year going out of our county to pay for fuel, less money for local businesses, less competition for companies that want walkable neighborhoods and transit for their workers, less ability to enforce speed limits so more children killed by "accident", fewer options for people who can't drive, more traffic noise, more money spent on street repair, more stormwater pollution, and more complaints about congestion. When driving and I see five bikes lined up at a light, I think, that's five fewer cars in front of me.

You'll only see more cross-cutting through neighborhoods because more traffic lanes are being "reassigned" to transit, or eliminated entirely to make room for bike lanes. Expect to see more impacts to neighborhood livability. And forget about enforcing speed limits, it simple won't happen.

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But that is just it - mascots don't represent actual Native peoples, past or present. They are false images, based on stupid stereotypical ideas that have been cherished by non-Indians for some many decades they have confused false information for reality.

Exemplary political correctness. The only long term effect of banning native american mascots will be to dim our national memory of those who were in America first and deserve to be remembered.

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you're a complete idiot boyd. an idiot beyond measure. a troglodyte living under a rock for the last thousand years could tell you a story or two about marjuana. but you're far too austere and stupid for a world with anyone but yourself inhabiting it.

More than likely a reefer addict. This isn't unfamiliar territory for those tortured souls slaves to 'Mary Jane'. Mary Jane of course being marijuana.

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Yes because of course there is no middle class that tends to actually make up the majority of ACTUAL taxpayers!! Ignorance is running strong today

yes. the hillside does. because the wealthy are the ones who use police the least, and fund them the most, with the tax dollars they earn from working jobs other than retail. remember it's the poor, he drug-addicted, the welfare-teat-suckers who are most likely, statistically to incur emergency unit response.

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Yep. I remember years ago reading excerpts from Columbus' journals that clearly stated he took Gambian Muslims with him as interpreters to communicate with the black folks he found in the Bahamas when he landed there. Never once saw those excerpts referred to in any 'history' book--certainly not the ones foisted on us in school.

This is not surprising at all. As a matter of fact, I often wondered why it takes so long for people to recognize these things. Some of our indigenous people, as we like to call them, came from other lands across the oceans. A lot of the NW Tribes originated from Polynesia and some are Athabaskan like the Navajo. Others, like the original Cherokee and Mandan, were of Irish and Welsh origin. The trouble with our history books is that there is very little truth in what they say. It really is, 'His Story', as our government wants it told.

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Hopefully you don't believe what you posted and are only hoping that others here are naïve enough to believe you. Your parent organization NEA is consistently in the top five of ALL donors to political campaigns and is often the number one donor. The smaller AFT is usually in the top ten. The Koch Bros. that you on the left so much love to put the Alinsky smear on were 48th last year.

Absolutely, but the money delivered by NEA and AFT pales in comparison to what comes from wealthy individuals. The part that makes them truly have some sway is they bring votes.....mostly "low money" votes by engaging members in common interests. Some people would even call that "democracy"! We'll never match their money. They know it, and they know that if they choke the life out of us, a lot of their problems go away. I'm just saying, what if individuals couldn't provide money, but only sway other people to vote using limited money. I'd be happy with that.

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But you can't leave money out of the overall picture, JRN. Many people make an enjoyable, honest living outfitting and guiding tourists and locals in Alaska public lands. This is a business sector that will continue long after oil and other non-renewable resources are long gone. And it's not just the tourists, but local Alaskans that use and enjoy these lands too. Right here in Anchorage, the BLM Campbell Tract (http://www.blm.gov/ak/st/en/prog/recreation/campbell_tract_recreation.html) and adjacent Muni Far North Bicentennial Park is the largest and wildest tract of land surrounded on three sides by Municipal lands. A wonderful network of trails is used year-round.

Its not about the money...we Alaskans should know we are fortunate to live here and share our great state with others, not look at how much one can soak a tourist or badmouth one another with innuendo.

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It's not just alders spreading, they are getting bigger. All you have to do is look at old pictures of local mountainsides in the winter. The mountainsides were white, because all of the alders were knocked down and smothered by snow. Even with the good winter we had 2 years ago, mountainsides are now brown. Snowfall these days can't compress the alders because the alders are too big.

Joe Danich, an old timer in the 70's in Girdwood told me he saw this same thing happening since the 40's after he arrived here so it's really nothing new. He said he saw it especially in the alders. We've been on a warming trend ever since the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, a short time in geological history.

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Eugene needs more rental and ownership homes that workforce households can afford. SW-SAZ would produce exactly _none_, while likely destroying some of the existing affordable single-family homes. -- Paul

I'm still waiting to see a convincing plan to increase affordable housing, meaning apartment buildings, in Eugene. Until I see that I'm in favor of increasing density throughout the city. Eugene has miles and miles of middle-class suburban single-family homes, now it needs apartments for working-class people.

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What you have with guns and suicidal individuals is a combination that ups the likelihood of death. First off, self-inflicted gunshot wounds are the most effective ways of killing oneself. A Harvard study from 2001 found that 85% of those who attempted suicide this way were successful. Suffocation (hanging) came in second at 69%. All other methods were well below 50%. Second the availability of guns increases the likelihood of attempting suicide. It's quick and requires little pre-planning. Guns play an outsized role in spontaneous suicides. Someone in a momentary crisis situation with a tendency toward depression and perhaps under the influence of alcohol or drugs grabs a gun and it's over. A noose requires work, other means lead to prolonged periods between initiating the attempt and death, which gives time for an intervention or for the suicidal person to seek help. 2/3 of our gun deaths are suicides. It's not anti-gun to acknowledge this and seek to fix it.

Suicide is a mental illness. You cannot peg a suicide to any one object. If there were no guns in the world, people who are determined to kill themselves would do so with other means. History have shown that to be true. Favorite method of suicide have often been the rope in the olden days......did we banned rope back then?? Firearms is just a mean of ease. Not an enabler. If you called an inanimate object an "enabler", what do you called family members or friends who missed or dismissed all that signs?? If you don't own a gun, there are thousands of other way to do yourself in. Guns really have nothing to do with suicide. No more then a rope, knife, or a fast moving train. It just a way to a mean. To prevent a suicide is to prevent the act and that is where mental health professionals around the nation must do a better job, with better laws and more alert family members and friends.

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Really?

How is this a left wing/right wing issue?

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Really your comparing pot addicts with slavery? Sorry but that is just an argument of the absurd.

Bias and prejudice never really go away , they are just redirected ! this is the same stubborn human nature trait that forced black people to ride in the back of the bus ! jb49

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For future reference, that's called 'deflection.' Also a case of apples and oranges. Probably not worth trying to explain the difference to you, but if you went into a dangerous part of town, you won't find any signs saying 'black only' on the facilities. The difference of course is that in my example if you attempted to use a 'proscribed' facility you'd be arrested by a cop. The discrimination was (or is) state-sponsored and enforced. But if you want to whine about being discriminated against because you're white, don't let me stop you. Whatever 'validates' you and makes you happy.

You don't know me Minshall and what I've been through in my life so don't assume anything. I've lost jobs over discrimination so I get it a little bit, but not as much as some. And yup, when I go to a big city there are typically places in it this white guy don't go looking for a bathroom.

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And being on a pace-maker, would make someone half your size a real threat.

The justification for use of deadly force in self-defense has nothing to do with the attacker being armed with a weapon. The requirement is that the attacker possesses the means and ability to do you grievous harm and has expressed a clear intent to imminently do so. The attacker's means can indeed be "bare hands and feet" if the attacker is larger, stronger, more highly trained, or more physically capable than the intended victim. That's described as a disparity of force. It's why guns are actually of less marginal utility to attackers than victims, as the attacker controls the victim choice and the time and place of the encounter, giving themselves all the advantages including surprise, and can and will choose victims they can "take," armed or not. Meanwhile the chosen victim is by definition physically outmatched and at the disadvantage of reacting rather than initiating. I recommend Andrew Branca's "Law of Self-Defense" to everyone interested in the legal aspects of the subject.

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ok...tattoos and piercings....... the EIC doesn't nearly cover the cost of childcare - not even close. they are small home based daycares everywhere......

It's twofold. On the one hand government prevents affordable housing from being built, and it taxes us out of the home even further. On the other hand, for those who work lower wages there is Earned Income Credit, which translates to $1K-$4K each year, and therein there's babysitting money, and catching up the power bill etc. but all too often case workers will tell you the majority squandered their EIC on tattoo's and piercings and high def TV's...My position being, at the least, refund the property taxes collected in rents and housing becomes more affordable, and restore the neighbor lady stay at home mom to earn side money babysitting more than 1 kid like we managed to do for 400 years before liberalism saved us.

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Any President that claims to be a Christian, & yet places the Presidency before his faith, will be a failure at both. Obama makes my point. Per the Declaration of Independence. " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--" That pesky Bible, with it's insidious " thou shall not kill, & thou shall not steal", you are on to something Jamison, that is truly sinister. I will not address the mellow-dramatics, other than to say there is zero evidence of Cruz looking to create a " Church of America", or anything even remotely absurd.

Cruz has said he's a christian first, American second; identifies all our rights as coming from God and not "man", is a dominionist (look it up), and has made plain that if elected he will govern primarily from christian principles and the Bible, doesn't believe in the separation of church and state; and in short represents all too many who would rather wad up the Constitution and secular government and throw it away in favor of some sort of man-made Kingdom of God on Earth, with all the vast machinery of the American military at its disposal---Kinda scary.

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Really? A smokey backroom deal? Does Bernie smoke? I don't think so. Nope, it was cooked up in his own personal concern for this country and people prodding him to run. Clinton is a centrist and would look like one is Bernie was not running.

Bernie is in the race to make Clinton look like a centrist. His candidacy was cooked up in one of those smoky backroom deals.

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Ahha, its a pompous, self-aggrandizing, dismissive piece of fiction.

So how do you explain why your members stood around and let their charges die of pure neglect? I really would like to see this so called 'rebuttal' from ACOA.

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Where was your criticism for Sully when he single handedly implemented the multi-million dollar SAP software system, Spend Less? How many millions have been invested in the system and it's not even close to being operable? Millions of taxpayers money and no results. Come on, Spend Less. Put blame where it needs to be put.

For most elderly/retired people in Anchorage, a "house beyond their means" will soon be any house that has a roof. The new Begich 2.0 crew in the Assembly will be taxing the elderly out of their homes and into tents in the homeless camps.

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we threw agent orange all around the east. i am not suggesting that. but believe that if they are sanctioning the growth of something so damaging, then we are at war, and should proceed as such. i am tired of all this pc business. we can't? ha. we can, and should.

It's just not that simple. Mexico can't even control their drug cartels; what would make you think we could go into a sovereign country in this day and age and control the issue. If there is no demand, the problem takes care of itself. Legal pot is really frustrating the cartels.

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The news is people fall for this stuff.

They won 4 races that all had huge funding advantages. Where is the news story here?

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No.

"While many of the emails from angry alumni came from graduates of Theological College during the 1960s and '70s ...... " Hmm .... isn't this the generation of American priests that rejected Catholic moral teachings, embraced modernism and was responsible for the sex abuse scandal?

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Well, when you group all non profits into opportunities for "greed to happen"...then I'm just afraid you're bitter and unnecessarily cynical. Generalization happens. Look, perhaps the truth slides along the scale at various points, depending on the actions of those individuals involved. I believe wholeheartedly in the Shedd's mission, and the Ralph's vision for it. I have personal experience on the value of the service they provide, as both a consumer (concerts) and a provider (classes, lessons).

I'm sorry you found my comment on non profits bitter. You I think are offended from what I said about the Shedd? It's an opinion. But, when you group all non profits into charitable, altruistic corporations/businesses then I'm just afraid you're naive and uninformed. l2g

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If Governor Walker vetoes this legislation, then Bill Wilechowski will be disappointed. He voted in for of this stupid idea. I never figured he'd join with Pete Kelley's logic and agree that guns on campus is a good idea.

I hope that Gov. Walker will have the sense to veto this ridiculous legislation! If Kelly is concerned about the safety of people in gun-free zones, why he propose to allow guns in the legislature? They'd be so much safer then. I have three high school students in my classes this semester at UAF and at least two signed up for summer session, yet they don't allow firearms in public schools. Are these highly motivated high school students less valuable than the others who are attending regular high schools? Or, are the regular students less valuable and so we force them to be in highly dangerous, gun-free zones? I guarantee one thing - if someone walks into my office with a gun, I am walking out. I will not knowingly remain in a room alone with a gun-t0ting person - that student will have instantly given up his/her right to privacy. We have already lost a highly valuable faculty member because of the disdain this legislature feels toward education. I am sick.

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Alaska could always follow Puerto Rico's model, with $72 billion debt. This May a $422 million payment on the Government Development Bank debt comes due. Puerto Rico and its public agencies owe another $2 billion in July. Seems the perfect model, gimme, gimme, gimme, just vote Bernie(D), the exact same as Governor Padilla(D) Too much free stuff, nobody producing a thing.

Wow dispatch news you're really pushing the income tax aren't you. Nothing subtle about your agenda.

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It is a bureaucracy. Good luck with that.

20 years ago, when faced with the prospect of ever declining North Slope oil production, ARCO Alaska undertook a radical reorganization. Major reductions were made in many departments, among them the Major Projects organization and Government and Public Affairs. Layers of middle management disappeared. Total headcount went from about 2500 to about 1700. Hundreds of jobs were re-graded. No one took a pay cut. But salaries were frozen until performance and years of service moved an employee up within their new, lower grade. All of this was announced and implemented in a matter of a few months. People weren't happy. Some left the company because the career advancements achieved so far disappeared. They found jobs elsewhere. But most stayed. And a year later, the new organization was functioning well and people had adjusted to a new reality. Most were content to still be in Alaska doing jobs they loved. U of A should consider this approach.

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Life is a precious gift that should not be thrown away. When do you say we should we end it? I do not know if you ever saw this show, but "Logan's Run" has an example of the slope that I believe we are on.

Devalue human life? As in ignoring a rational decision that it's time to go and instead watching the body deteriorate, sometimes agonizingly slowly and horrifically painfully, because you want to wait for the grim reaper?

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I don't really know. To be precise, I am concerned when it becomes a person. At the moment of conception there is a human embryo, so I accept it is "human" at that point. I don't think a fetus with a beating heart is a person yet--as I said above, plenty of things are alive and don't even have a heart. Is it consciousness that is the key step? I don't know about that point either--some studies suggest a baby isn't conscious until 5 months after birth! Because of these uncertainties, I accept that the second factor here--the right of a woman to control her body is important and think birth is a reasonable, clear event that signals the arrival of a person into the world.

Okay Science, just when in it's development does it become human?

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The Constitution was written by people with common sense, for people with common sense.

Yeah... So let's arm grade school kids... "shall not be infringed" and all and the second amendment has no age restriction...

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"Are you saying that Christians believe because they don’t have any common sense? Be honest…" um, yes. YOU said it very well. if it isn't lack of common sense, it must be something much, much more dangerous.

Amy was just re-elected to the assembly. Are you saying that the majority responsible voters north of Anchorage are extremists? The very popular Christian station owner and listeners? Are you saying that Christians believe because they don't have any common sense? Be honest...

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I would expect someone named "defendfreespeech" to have a better understanding of the first amendment.

I imagine they said that because anytime a conservative group has attempted to meet and express views ie demonstrate their right to speak, assemble or petition, people identifying themselves as left wing try to prevent that group from speaking, which is infringing on their Constitutional right, last I checked

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Are you upset because the "leftist radicals" played into their hand or they set a trap knowing the "leftist radicals" would play into it?

I despise Trump but began this article by thinking even these nitwits have a right to a peaceful meeting. Then I read this by the ringleader; "And we wanted to see what the leftist radicals would do about us." So the hell with them.

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He's homeless. It's not his fault, it's society's. Any of the usual suspects here can download a massive rationalization or two that will explain why. Interesting, if distasteful, twist on the bike path screed. Never let a tragedy go to waste.

When you allow bums to roam about breaking the law at will without consequence, such as this fine fellow who apparently committed arson only to be brought to a shelter instead of being arrested and prosecuted, then you shouldn't be surprised when they move on to horrific crimes. There's a lesson for Eugene in there somewhere, if we will heed it. Already we have women being harassed, assaulted, menaced and kidnapped along the bike paths. It may not be long before some of our more industrious bums take the next step.

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Math problem. We have a $4 billion shortfall. Even if we claw back $1 billion in tax credits and gas pipeline stuff, where does the other $3 billion come from. Do you honestly think we can cut that much? Especially without completely crashing our economy?

Don't need new revenue when Alaska is giving nearly a billion dollars to the oil and gas industry in tax credits and pipeline investment. Really, how much has Alaska given away in the past couple years? and for what? a measly 5,500 barrel increase in production? at $40 a barrel Alaska has given billions and new production totals $220,000. No to TAXES. No to messing with the Permanent Fund or Dividend. Stop squandering Alaska's wealth on foolish expenditures.

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Maybe wishful thinking on your part, RR: 04/24/11: 19 year-old Ashley N. Bashore ran down Hubert Tunuchuk and left him to die. She was charged with “failing to render assistance” (!), got 18 months. Blondes may not have more fun, but they get away with vehicular manslaughter if their victim is Yup’ik! 02/06/13: 17 year-old Murphy M. Gross stole daddy’s SUV and killed Catherine Cope, mother of two, when he T-boned her car. He got 8 months–the Judge felt he could be ‘rehabilitated’–translation, he was white and Cope wasn’t. 07/19/14: 17 year-old drunk driver Alexandra Ellis ran down 51 year-old bicyclist Jeff Dusenbury, killed him and fled. The victim was white this time, so there was a bit of a fuss, but Ellis’ daddy was a well-connected lawyer. She got a year. 03/12/16: 26 year-old Arnold Demoski ran down a (gasp!) DOG while driving his snowmobile drunk. The judge suggested he was a TERRORIST. According to Alaska courts, a dog’s life is worth most, a native Alaskan’s, least.

Is this wishful thinking ? The cases are different in that after the story broke , no lynch mob was formed demanding the guy be hung. Even one of the victim's has forgiven the guy , asking he not go to jail , unlike the other case where there has been no forgiveness and those involved want the 17 year old hung . The DA made the deal because of the facts of the case , and judge accepted that deal because he too , understood the facts. If a person gets in trouble--a great attorney is a must .

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There's a difference between saying no one SHOULD get special treatment because of the color of their skin and saying no one DOES get special treatment because of the color of their skin (and/or because daddy is a well-connected attorney). Do you understand that difference, Richard?

I don't believe the color of the victim or law breaker has any impact on the sentence . Those cases you listed---these people made tragic mistakes. The case involving the two dog teams---the suspect , as I recall , made repeated and intentional passes at the teams. What troubles me about the original case is that most know the facts---that both contributed to what happened---yet they steadfastly refuse to accept those facts. They seem to want revenge---not justice . All lives matter , and I hate to see injustice , no matter who is involved. No one should get special treatment because of the color of their skin .

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Your alternatives are not mutually exclusive!

Either the people were lied to on the cost of the City Hall or the City Council are a bunch of imbeciles. Forgive me for being blunt

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So it amazes me how short peoples memories are, like the time frame when big oil hired thugs to harass the whistle blowers in Anchorage. The only thing I would add to their plan is please be sure to take all your homies with you.

Ah, the threats begin.......

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Good one.

What about Bayer knowingly sold vaccines contaminated with hiv? What about the godfather of vaccines who worked for Merk went on national television and told the world that every single vaccine is contaminated? What about my nephew who changed after his vaccines. What about the scientist who admitted putting sleeping cancer cells in vaccines? What about the global elitists plan for population control? This isn’t about autism. This is so much bigger!!!!

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If you thought Alaska's oil industry was getting so many welfare checks you would have to be a fool not drill and explore on state oil leases! If it was as good as your delusional mind believes then you would be drilling and making the kind of returns the bankrupt oil companies are, like Buccaneer, Miller Energy Resources, Stewart Petroleum, Forcenergy Inc, Samasco, and on and on and on!! Fact is you can't find any Alaskans or smaller oil companies that explored and drilled and sold oil for a profit, except the majors! The majors are not drilling any exploration wells today on state leases, are they? Alaska will fall if HB 247 and SB 130 make law and I feel investors will run from Alaska's oil business and not come back!

And ARCO did it on their own dime; not welfare checks from the state. If the current oil companies were making a $100 dollars on every barrel they would still be whining that the state should pay their production costs - that's what they do.

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Wrong.

Donald Trump will not last his full term in office. In four months he has proven to be so incompetent and undisciplined that I doubt he will be president at this time next year. His entire agenda is stalled; the Muslim ban is being defeated in the courts, the health care bill is hated by everyone and the Senate will take months to craft a less disastrous version, his wall is unfunded and his budget is such a mess even the basic arithmetic is wrong. White House in-fighting and leaking is happening on a scale never even hinted at before. Aides have to mention Trump's name repeatedly in briefs just so he will keep reading. Trump will quit or be turfed. It's almost inevitable.

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Claiming that executing convicted murderers is murder makes about as much sense as arguing that putting them in jail is kidnapping. Or perhaps you think we shouldn't do that either?

Lonny N Sherry Bower, it's a sad commentary on our society that you think supporting the murder of a person convicted--rightly or wrongly of murder--is the solution to murder. How does the state committing violence against a person deter violence? Violence begets violence. That's the plain truth of it. I assume you're aware that numerous innocent people have been executed in death penalty states? What punishment should there be for the state, and the population that supports the death penalty, when that happens? After all, they've murdered an innocent man or woman.

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Exactly!

Krugman and his followers are still smarting from the humiliating defeat on November 8. They just can't come to grips with the fact that there might be people who see things differently.

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I don't feel slighted. I believe in your right to free speech and also mine. You will notice that ADN censored my comment about censorship. There was nothing, obscene about that comment, and no individual was personally attacked, but they didn't like the truth about their behavior, so they deleted it.

Sorry you feel slighted, but some times I use that as a term of endearment for my girlfriend when the time is appropriate, so consider your self in good company my Aflac friend. Sorry you feel the glass is half empty.

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I'm not a friggin riot, those imbeciles fishing the bay are the riot, there too stupid to riot, you'd have to pass 4th grade to riot, and 6th grade math. "From the early days of the Limited Entry Commission, CFEC researchers figured out a way to add 500 permits to Bill Egans distressed fishery list, on only one special fishery, this fishery, unique, as now the number as adjusted to the Limited Entry Commissions, "limited areas of less intensive mental development." Part of the local Growth Management Act for no Limited Entry whatsoever. Just ask any local, who cried another 500 permits out of Twomey. https://www.cfec.state.ak.us/RESEARCH/salmon/CHPT1_10_21_04.pdf

YOU are a friggin riot! Wow! Also informative to some degree. Yeah, please keep it up.

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Shame is for those that don't protect their families and themselves. I am protecting my investment in Alaska since you and others would let a 30 year old Saudi Prince break you and the great state of Alaska! The Saudi oil glut was to gut you! My God man wake up! The state has $ 10 billion in the savings and $ 60 billion PFD from oil. Use the rainy day savings or be fooled by this oil market manipulation by this glut! Maybe some don't have the education or the mind for chess but thank God you have some very smart Legislators that pay attention to these things! You got 19 Billions Barrels someone else paid to find and produce and the state got royalty for free no work or cost and lots of taxes jobs! Stop biting the hands that feeds you! The PFD and the $10 Billion dollars in savings was a gift from the oil workers of Alaska so don't lay them off work because your mind can't understand how the they risked life and limb and almost froze getting this money for you and other Alaskans!

Donkel, another millionaire from the Lower 48 telling Alaskans to continue to dole out corporate welfare while Alaska has a four billion dollar deficit. You really have no shame, Daniel.

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this is a pittance of what used to be. 15 across the whole state of Oregon? LOL there used to be 15 along the slough off columbia blvd in Portland. Like I said back in the day I worked my way through collage doing clean up in a slaughter house, Yes it was nasty ugly work. Yes I made good money making Union wages Local 656. Yes almost ALL collage age kids now days are too soft and squeemish to lower themselves working jobs that are deemed "too icky" Have you ever actually been on a slaughterhouse kill floor? How about a rendering plant?

http://meat-processing.regionaldirectory.us/oregon.htm There are also poultry and seafood processors in Oregon. See, if you were an illegal, you'd know these things. It's not that I'm dissing meat packing. It's just one of those gruesome jobs that many Americans, the street people to name a few, don't want.

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his wife, anita, was paroled in 1984...

That also happened in Eugene-Springfield a number of years ago. Chuck Haynes was convicted twice on the underlying homicide charge and dismemberment of Pamela Bruno. Fortunately, he eventually died in prison.

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Move to New Orleans my dad died at 82 smoked all his life .He died from working himself to death.

Ms. LeDoux, why do you wish to go against 1,000 Alaska businesses and organizations who have signed Resolutions of Support for this bill? Why are you pretending secondhand smoke (including vaping aerosol) is not harmful to workers? Why is it okay with you that non-smokers like me have been diagnosed with emphysema simply from secondhand smoke exposure? What is so wrong with asking smokers to "take it outside"? Why are you more interested in protecting smokers than those whose health is being compromised from the toxins being expelled from those smokers? And why won't you explain your opposition to this bill? It's time for some common sense for Alaska. It's time for smokefree workplaces. If New Orleans can go smokefree, so can we.

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The overwhelming consensus is that seven billion clever primates with internal combustion engines and plastic water bottles have had something to do with the changes that have been observed....and these are not "normal earth cycles".....

So Sara now believes in the other thousands of scientists who say it is normal earth cycles. Sorry, you have to get a real job, we are not going to pay you to read thermometers all day!

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Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America. — Thomas Jefferson, November 29, 1775 WIKI LEAKS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence COMMON SENSE introduced no new ideas?

I encourage you to sign the petition!

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Thant's OK, camping is allowed everywhere else, so there's no need for people to camp near City Hall. Out of sight, out of mind!

When the shovel breaks ground, the cost will be much higher. Add to that the cost overruns of construction, and the fairy tale is complete with a sparkling new castle and plenty of parking on the street, or so I'm told. Also a side note, no camping will be available this close to Camelot.

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"Glad George is leaving the council." Not sure why that makes you happy. He has been this project's biggest critic.

we don't want to pay for your egos decision to build a city hall that you all can rule from if there's a crisis. We have not wanting a new city hall for years. Y.E.A.R.S, and yet here we are. Who's building this? Who selected them? So we've had a battle of wills over the years over this issue. Guess power won because there are too many people who just are engaged....well maybe for their facebook cronies. Gag Fire these self serving clucks. Glad George is leaving the council.

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I think the phrase should be changed to: "D"rifters.... gonna Drift.

"Now she's promoting a film disputing global-warming science" Welllllll, of course she is. Grifters gonna grift...

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The MSNBC talk show "Morning Joe" interviewed Sanders on these issues- how to break up the big banks, etc. and he explains it quite well. The problem with Sanders and mainstream media is mainstream media is owned and/or paid by the big money multi-national corporations that do not own him as they do the other candidates including Clinton. Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money. Bernie is owned by the citizens the rest are puppets for the wealthy industries.

Krugman is not alone in his examination of Sanders. The country needs someone with experience and gravitas, not more rhetoric (from either side). Hillary Clinton has her faults, but she has the substance to govern well. -- Paul

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I want to know who this guy flies for so I can put them on top of my vendors list.

I want to know who this guy flies for so I can mark them off my vendor list.

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Shouldn’t I have the right to walk outside without being terrorized by a potentially-lethal gun owner? Are we living in a civilization or not?

Shouldn't I have the right to walk outside without being terrorized by a potentially-lethal pet? Are we living in a civilization or not? People usually get dogs for companionship, hunting, or protection, and the desire for protection often causes people to get very large and dangerous dogs. An owner's desire to assuage their fears by having a lethal dog does NOT supersede a citizen's right to not be terrorized. I believe the opposite is actually true.

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Yes, instead Mellerstig peppers the fellow's home with hollow points? Much safer for the public. Jesus, get a grip.

"Brailey said he wondered why Mellerstig didn’t fire a warning shot into the air, or tackle the dog himself -" Seriously? There are too many things wrong with that suggestion it's hard to even consider it a serious suggestion.

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"In the wake of the shooting, the two men briefly exchanged words and took photos of the scene with their phones. Both men said Skhoop’s body lay halfway across the property line, the dog’s front half on the street and its rear still in Brailey’s yard."

Skhoop was not halfway in the street. She was fully on her lawn when she was shot

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"both men agreed it was half in yard and half on street." that means it wasn't in his yard the dog was in the city right of way. The owner is at fault, all you dog lovers can cry all you want, you must be in control of your "Known" aggressive dog.

Per ADN article, both men agreed it was half in yard and half on street.

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Then we should likewise be able to shoot people who show "ANY slight hint of aggression towards children", after all people are animals too and usually much, much more dangerous than any dog. At least a dog will do you the courtesy of growling at you before it attacks, a human will smile and wish you good day and in the next breath shoot you in the face.

Any animal not fenced in or on a leash gives me cause to shoot if I see ANY slight hint of aggression towards my children. Even if your animal is trained and snuggly with your children, they are still animals. Please be considerate and wise and keep your animals fenced in or on a leash. We have too many folks here in Alaska that want California living. This is why I moved from California. So I can protect my children the way I see fit.

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Dramatic much? I've been using cannabis for over thirty years, since I was a teenager. How do you explain my master's degree, twenty years teaching full time, own a house and cabin, don't drink alcohol or use pharmaceuticals. Alcohol is the real killer; I have had students die, kill people while driving, and end up in rehab because of booze. Don't be an idiot.

The undesirable problem, soon or latter the drug will be land in some of these kids pockets with no experience whatsoever and there goes their future down the hill, pretty sad and dramatic but true. Hey ! but our State and officials got their part and business are good.

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Ha Ha Ha give this guy a student union debate trophy because that is the level of that argument.

Do you know how many undocumented and scofflaws own more than one? Do you know where your food comes from, and who owns the mortgage (if any) you bought into, but has been resold to a holding company, who also is buying up lands for global interests? Your fears are being played. If you believe in and say you have faith, then why do you need these trinkets & babels? Blasphemic iconography, under a most conservative context.

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And you know that is his bias because of what he has said or is your allegation based on Your bias instead?

Typical man, Merkley can't envision a woman president.

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Actually it is what happens when liberal Democrats who have a created a welfare state coupled with a legal system that favors criminals rather than victims and society.

This is what happens when states permit Republican gun legislation runsamuck.

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Nonsense, he could have easily covered his child's body with his own. It took him several shots to kill the dog. He is not an expert shot. The fact he did not hit his own kid or someone else was luck. The pistol was there so he used it. His kid got to witness something he will not forget.

Thankfully, the story did not end with a dead, mauled, disfigured child.

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The main reason for a probationary period for a 'new hire' is to determine whether the new person fits in with the organization or not. When I hired, I always assumed the person could do the job; otherwise why would I hire them? If they couldn't do the job, they would soon be gone. The same is true of being the new person being hired. After that, personality, work style, and work ethic are always important. If the organization is a 'nose to the grindstone' 'get the work done no matter what' organization, the 'laid back' person is not going to work out even if the measureable results at the end are identical. The reverse is true, as well. I have seen turnover that happened just because of those issues. The election of J. Pat Horton as DA back in the 70's resulted in the replacement of about half the existing staff here in the Lane County DA's office in about 6 months. They were all competent but he wanted a particular style in his office and he got it.

If there were real performance issues, it is best to find a replacement. However, from the story as given here, performance issues have not been clearly demonstrated. It is important that personalities and politics be left out of employment decisions at public institutions. The current superintendent has some explaining to do.

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Look no further than the Rockefellers.

Marijuana is not a new thing, the fear is associated with the US government and pharmaceutical industry misinformation campaign which has been going on for about 80 years.

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He's a Ted Cruz wannabe.

Dunleavy is doing everything he can to distract us from the fact that he has nothing useful to contribute to fixing the state's budget problems. He's a sad, angry man with no answers and no ideas.

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Why can't the poor pay for some of their upkeep?

NO INCOME TAX - taxing income removes money from the economy. The dividend restructure adds money to the economy. If you tax income, then the PFD becomes WELFARE

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Police mistress then, OK. Miss "Law & Order" to Fred's rescue. What does it say in your law book about people who abuse children?

No. Actually, Moron, I am the wife of Don DuPay, former PPB police Detective. Nice try though. 😄

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Why not a sales tax instead of an income tax that fewer than 50% of Alaska wage earners would pay? With a sales tax EVERYONE who spends money in Alaska gets to contribute to the cost of government and state provided services. Seems more fair to me. Of course if fairness is not a criteria for you then I see how an income tax would be appealing.

In my view, what needs to happen is reinstitution of the income tax at the 20% rate we had before, along with cuts in spending. This tajmahawker, KABATA, Susitna mess are prime examples of necessary cuts. We immediately need a sustainable plan which will allow for continued investment in the state: by this I do not mean paying anybody to stay here, as in the oil companies. I have been talking for awhile now about the direct subsidy we pay to the alcohol industry of $600 million each year. People are upset about the oil subsidy: we also need to be angry about the alcohol subsidy! We are paying those people a huge amount of money to kill and injure our people.

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I agree that Trooper should have been fired. I suspect Monegan did to. However, the union would have filed a wrongful termination suit against the state, and that Trooper would have made a ton of money off being fired. Is that what you want? The union has rules on how and when Troopers can be fired. If that state doesn't follow those rules, the employee ends up winning, even if they suck.

The Trooper in question in the Troopergate scandal should have been fired. DUI in a trooper car? The man showed none of the qualities in the Trooper logo. Courage, Integrity, Loyalty. He had zero.

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