Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Hey Anchorage Mayor and Assembly please change bar closing times to 5am

Recently the Downtown Anchorage bar owners are asking the Anchorage Assembly permission to keep the bars open an additional hour not to serve drinks.  I have a better idea here on this subject since every where but Anchoragepolis bars close at 5 am.  Change the bar closings to 5 am this will reduce the drunk driving deaths on the Glenn Highway people would not be driving out to Palmer and Wasilla to continue to drink for another three hours.  Here is another idea Seattle last year in 2012 suggested to the Washington State Liquor board under the Communist Seattle City Council and Premiere Mike McGinn to have the bars choose when to close and have them open for 24 hours a day.  This would ease the traffic on the cabs and make it easier since here in Anchoragepolis we have a limit on how many cabs can be in this city instead of allowing anyone with a valid Anchoragepolis chauffeurs license to buy a permit.  That is the American way.  Unless we repeal 11.20.030 section D.  This would allow the bars to choose when they want to open.  Let's also do something else let's require any patron that enters a bar to have to surrrender their keys to the bartender or the bouncer at the door and in order to get your keys back you have to breath on breathlizer to make sure you are under the .08 limit to get your keys.  If not the bar must call you a cab or have many bars who can transport their patrons either free of charge to their homes or can charge to get them a ride home.  We must make it so you do not have to apply for a shuttle permit to do this by their own bar.  Allow bar patrons to park their car at an establishment for 24 hours without a risk of getting towed by the lot owner.  This will allow the bar patron a ride home without having to use the CHARR program or pay an Anchoragepolis taxi company four times the fare to drive the car and one goes in the car. 

Alaskan natives should have free tution at any Alaska based college

As a step son of an Alaskan native from Kodiak.  I would not qualify here however many of my cousins and nephews and nieces would qualify native corporations could prove a blood line.  This would include any Alaskan natives born out of Alaska who can prove their heritage with a native corporation would also get free tution.  You should ask your legislators to get on board and support the First Alaskans education Free college bill.  Come on Les Gara, Bill Weichelowski, Hollis French you can get behind this and actually help Alaskan natives get better education.  Native corporations can also help out by paying for tution for all decents of an Alaskan native.  The bad part is adopted or step children would not qualify under this idea.