Former KTVA reporter Charlo Greene has a future at PBS's Reading Rainbow

Last month Charlo Greene quit her job at KTVA a CBS station in Anchorage.  Her mentor is Levar Burton the host of PBS's Reading Rainbow recently he read a children's  book to an audience of young adults.  I guess she can if Alaska Proposition 2 does not pass can work for PBS's Reading Rainbow program will KAKM all her to read in studio when she encourages reading to young minds in America. 

Why is Anchorage Municipality waisting money paying rent on this building?

Anchorage Municipality owns many building throughout town and the main administration building they pay rent on.  Let's move all of the administration out of this building spreading to building that the Municipality of Anchorage owns that way we are not throwing away taxpayers money on rent.  Please tell your mayor and Anchorage Assembly you do not want to pay rent on an administration building. 

Let's get a movie theater in Downtown Anchorage

Hey Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Anchorage Downtown Partnership.  Let's provide a tax credit to any one that wants to renovate the 4th Avenue Theater in Downtown.  Maybe if we could get Regal Cinemas or Cinemark to buy or lease the building.  You know ten years ago Regal Cinemas put a movie house at Riverpark Square in Spokane and it looks great. 

Twenty five years ago Friday I met this awesome woman in a Cle Elum High School cafeteria

Twenty five years ago on October 24, 1989 the greatest friendship was created in a Cle Elum-Roslyn High School cafeteria between Frances Virginia Cook Ryan and myself.  It started with a lecture since I was the new kid on the block.  The upper picture was a picture she gave of her at 15 years of age and a picture of us two in Spokane back in 2008 in front of Rocky Rocco's.  We have not always agrees on issues but we have manage to stay strong for more than 25 years.  This friendship goes all the way from Alaska to Scotland.  We had always support each other ventures and opinions even if we do not agree with each other opinions.  We both have been successful in our social media careers with our sites.  Her Just Frances is more personally where my mostly political does report on stories that are a concern to me.  We both are successful writer who one day will take time to publish a book when get out of our busy lives.  Maybe we have to write it together to do it.  Imagine Green Teenage Barista Crime Fighter having a Scottish accent me neither.  They do not even know how to brew coffee over there they probably spit on our Starbucks. 

A lot of people testified in the Uber debate at the Tuesday October 21st at the Anchorage Assembly

 

Many people testified on Tuesday October 21st in the Uber debate at the Anchorage Assembly.  Most of the people testifying where greedy say if Uber comes in they need to be compensated for their permits.  They are lying to the Anchorage Assembly saying Uber is not safe when they are.  

The only people that testified that had logic in the room was Andrew Halcro, Bethany Markum, ,Lynette Moreno-Hinz, Uber drivers, David O'Malley, Uber executives and myself who feel competition makes a better cab industry.  

Most of the cab drivers members of the Anchorage Taxicab Permit Owners Association  told lies to the Anchorage Assembly this includes dispatch owners of Alaska Yellow Dispatch and Anchorage Checker Cab which are also technology providers.  They were mentioning Uber cabs were not safe when they are they just need to be marked.  They also said their permits were property then the public wants evidence that property tax was paid if not then they actually worth nothing.  Municipality of Anchorage deceived every permit owner into thinking they are worth thousands of dollars when they are not.  When Spokane's Title 10 was cemented into law the taxi cab permit owners were not compensated they could not prove to the Spokane City Council in 1980 that property tax was paid.  These permits belong to the Municipality of Anchorage not the permit owners. 

You can on this ordinance on Tuesday, November 18th remember we must tell the Anchorage Assembly that competition is necessary.