Please tell the Anchorage Assembly to rename Birch Road to Chris Birch Road. The addresses would stay on Birch Rd just the name of the road to honor Chris Birch.
Anchorage Police should not be counting homeless people. They need to fighting crime instead the homeless coordinator should have teams count the homeless instead. If this is what the extra 120 officers were hired for then we have 120 too many. Please call the mayors office at (907) 343-7103 demand he issue a proclamation to clear the homeless camps which is 72 hours.
Meg Zaletel's solution to the Anchorage homeless problem is to put a portable toilet where a homeless camp is located. Let's also do other things like give them an address make them property tax payers for instance. There is a homeless camp on the Chester Creek Trail near Arctic Blvd. Meg's solution let's put a portable toilet there. I have an idea let's give it an address like 724 W. Chester Creek Trailhead and send the camp a tax bill this way they pay property taxes. If you see a portable toilet on the trail in the future it is help future voters of Anchorage who want to keep the city filfthy. Remember the law says 72 hours to clear a homeless camp in Anchorage.
The real reason El Paso Walmart shooting was successful because Walmart has a blanket design for each type of there stores. He already knew the layout by studying his local Walmart near Plano in suburban Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. He drove 880 miles to El Paso to commit this racist act down Interstate 20 then Interstate 10. He also had mental issues and racist motive against Mexicans. Donald Trump had nothing to do with this shooting. Gun control would have not prevented this shooting. Just remember criminals do not follow the law so increased background checks would have not prevented this tragedy. These killers have a bad mental state.
Do you notice that the people promoting this Fair Share initiative are the same people who do not believe that you need to not have a complete Permanent Fund Dividend. They also think an income tax is an awesome idea impose on the state of Alaska. The oil taxation under SB 21 passed in 2013 works very well will eventually will put the Alaskan economy back on track. We just the right people in the right places in the legislature to fulfill this common sense approach.
It is just like recently Jason Grenn who was defeated in a recent election against Sara Rasmussen has proposed rank choice voting for primary elections. Had he observed how this was an failure in Pierce County in my home state of Washington this is where Tacoma resides in. He would though twice about this idea. This is make sure Alaska becomes more like the Lower 48. Most people left the Lower 48 not to return to its policies. Had he proposed the Cajan primary idea this idea actually works and has not changed the elections in Washington state at all.
If this comes back on the ballot again please vote it down because it is necessary to do so.
Cathy Giessel promised during her reelection campaign she would vote to put the money back in your pocket that was taken from you here is the truth back in 2016 she supported the money grab and did nothing to stop it. She has voted to tax her citizens in Muldoon and Anchorage about 20k.
Both Alaska legislatures have misrepresented their residents in rural Alaska. They voted to tax their residents the past two years almost $10,000 for a family of 4 for the past two years. You figure in the poorest districts that money coming back to the residents would be the best investment that is not the case. Also remember when Bryce Edgmon the current speaker also convinced Alaska Native leaders that if you support an Income tax for Alaska your dividends who will not be counted as income in the Alaska State Income tax proposal. Had they believed that public safety was important they would have propose that Alaska Native Corporations pay for it.
Please vote against these legislatures if you want to see the money that is owed to you rural Alaska.
Juneau last year elected Andi Story to represent them in the legislature. Andi delivered to them was extra taxes by refusing to vote for a full PFD. Andi voted to tax every resident almost $5,000 for a family of 4. The exact amount was $4,560. She also took money from Great Alaska Scam dba as Great Alaska Schools to not hold school administrators accountable for Alaska education. Her favorite sandwich is the Beltrami because it comes with cash. Juneau in 2020 please vote out Andi.
Jeffrey Epstein decided to take the cowards way out in a Manhattan jail cell instead of face his accusers like a man on August 10, 2019. He decided to seduce many young girls and women during his lifespan. The United States Attorney General should through the Department of Justice seize all assets and sell them at auction then before paying any Epstein heirs the victims should be paid for. If Jeffrey Epstein did have any heirs they should receive an income of only $3000 a month until all the victims have been paid. They get what is left over. If the fund is empty then the monthly payments will end and they will have to find jobs.
Michael Cathcart is the candidate who wants to be liked by everybody. He is endorsed by Ben Stuckart, Nadine Woodward and most special interest. However unlike Tim Benn he is not endorsed by anyone with common sense. He is likely to vote for to continue funding for the bridge to Hookerville aka the bridge to Gonzaga. If you want real change in Spokane you vote for Tim Benn for city council to represent NE Spokane.
Members of the Alaska State Senate felt egos are better then direct representation from the district. I guess the Alaska State Senate led by Pop goes the Cathy Giessel feel that taxing you is more important then giving you what is yours. I guess it is back to the drawing board for the Republicans in the Lower Hillside and Upper Hillside. I guess they want Chris Birch there. I guess they can hold their next session at the Anchorage Cemetery near his grave to fulfill it.
First of all the last four years the Democrats have been in control of the Alaska State House. They have funded these Alaska Pioneer Home with the highest amount of medicaid dollars along with the Walker Administration. Now in December 2018 we have a new sheriff in town with Mike Dunleavy. They have decided to be fiscally responsible with medicaid money. The Alaska House Majority committee lead by Geran Tarr and Ivy Sponholz decided to raise the rates of the Alaska Pioneer Homes by not submitting a reduction in operation cost of the operation. Refusing to bill native corporations to take care of their elders who are shareholders. Remember this is due to the handshake agreement with the speaker of house Bryce Edgmon who exempted native corporations dividends from the Alaska Income Tax proposal.
Remember Zack Fields, Ivy Sponholz and Geran Tarr raised the rates of the Alaska Pioneer Homes.
September 15th, 2019 Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz who just came back from eating Japanese food from Japan. He took an absent East Anchorage Assembly member Forrest Dunbar and his sidekick Chris Constant who was invited on the trip because if he was in town he may delay this arrest ordered by the mayor. Chief Justin Doll has order the arrest of this plastic criminal. Customers will have to pay a maximum 50 cents per transaction which is 10 cents a bag up to 50 cents to be provided a paper bags unless you provide your Quest card to a participating retailer then the taxpayers will pay your tax for you. Low income families will have to pay the tax at places like Kohl's and at home improvement store.
I predict many low income people will be frustrated that in order to save 50 cents to have a paper bag you will have to provide your Quest to the cashier to not pay the bag fee.
The merchants can not keep the money they collect themselves they donate the proceeds to a charity that benefit the homeless or the local food bank. This is a back door way of making sure these non profits like Beans Cafe keep receiving government funds.
We need to elect common sense representatives to the assembly or gather enough signatures to put a vote of the people and let public decide of the plastic bag should continue to be banned.
Each of these people want to continue to raise your taxes in Spokane. They want to limit how many times you can speak at a public forum. There solution to solve the homeless situation is make city hall a homeless camp. They also want to make the city a sanctuary city. You make Ben Stuckart mayor he will believe he is the king. His idea is the citizens are my subjects and peasants and you submit to me. You believe what I say. Imagine Breann Beggs as council president he will be Stuckart 2.0 on the council then you have Lori Kinnear and Karen Stratton those are in lock step. Talk about no checks and balances. Spokane will never be the same again. Then you Michael Cathcart who wants to be everybody's council members.
Want a solution to make Spokane better you elect Nadine Woodward Mayor, Cindy Wendle Council President, Then for the district council seats you elect Andy Rathbun in the West Central Spokane district, Tim Benn for the NE Spokane district and Tony Kiepe for South Spokane district.
Hey Spokane tired of being told how to act by city officials and how many a month you can testify at a city council. Let's get rid of King Stuckart's rule over the city you can do by electing a nice lady who has informed this city for the last 30 years her name is Nadine Woodward. Imagine King Stuckart in charge at city hall. The first act would be to write letters to Google to shut down this blog, Twitter to shut down swensonmember which is weird he actually follows me there and to Facebook to shut down my account then his next resolution would be to throw George McGrath out of town. If Nadine is elected he need to be him her personal advisor on Spokane issue. George will probably do it for free. He will even serve her his personal tea. She will use her mayoral powers to listen to the people
For Council president you elect Cindy Wendel you will actually allow free speech again at city hall and citizens will be allow to question the government. Breann will just continue the insanity that King Stuckart has done as council president in the past 8 years. Imagine him and Stuckart with him in the mayors office would that be a problem. You put Cindy and Nadine in their people will be listened too. Imagine two moms in charge at city hall the issues will be taken care off.
Last topic on this post only pertains to NE Spokane residents only. If you elect Tim Benn to the city council. You will have a citizen look out the interest of your neighbors instead of someone who has a useless college degree and wants to be friends with everybody but have a secret agenda behind to keep the status quo of screwing the citizen. You add Tim Benn to Cindy Wendle as Council President and Nadine Woodward as Mayor you will put the power of Spokane back to the people where it should be.
Cindy Wendle has not been part of the problem that has happened. She is a mom who cares about her community and she will not limit peoples speech like the last council president. She will listen to the people and understands what is like to be a public servant. If you elect Nadine Woodward at the mayors office and Cindy as council president it will show that city hall wants to listen to you not shut you up.
Andy Rathbun is young active grandfather who wants to serve his community. Andy is ready to listen to your concerns and will bring honesty to the office will save you tax dollars and wants to make Spokane more accessible to the citizen
South Spokane needs Tony Kiepe he will be a breath of fresh air to the city council. South Spokane needs a council member that will represent them and will save them money instead of ignoring them like the current council has done. Vote for Tony Kiepe for City Council
Tim Benn is not like other people who is seeking political office. He is a common folk person who wants to serve his neighbors and if you elect him he will serve you and not the special interest. Spokane needs more citizens like Tim to step up. Vote Tim Benn for City Council on November 5th
Nadine Woodward entered into nightly television screen with her partner Charles Rowe starting in 1990 she was the replacement for Maureen O'Boyle who became the host for A Current Affair. This is where when I first moved into Spokane I got to know her by watching KREM-TV news the CBS station serving Eastern Washington. She had been delivering the news to the community she served by giving them information they can go about their day for almost 30 years for two stations.
Now Nadine wants to serve her community in a different way as Spokane's mayor. I believe she will bring a citizens perspective to the office instead having political experience. She will also treat the citizen with respect as a news personality and reporter she has always been good at listening also as someone who has been a faithful student of the Rick Rydell Public Servant Academy. She wants to make the roads accessible and allows citizens to have access to their government. Nadine will be a good asset as Spokane's Mayor. Please vote for Nadine Woodward for Spokane's Mayor on November 5th.
Last year I gave this woman my vote. I realized that I voted for Liz by emotion instead supporting the incumbent Lance Pruitt. She lost by only 181 votes which this blog got her there while she was eating Beltrami sandwiches on the side. Lance after paying attention actually voted against taxing his residence an additional $4,560 for a family of 4 which. Liz would have costed East Anchorage families by voting to cap the permanent fund dividend at $1600 so her special friends could get funded. Liz cares more about her friends at the University over efficiency. This was not what she told during the campaign she wanted to bring transparency and efficiency to state government. I am glad that East Anchorage choose Lance or Liz because. East Anchorage needs a representative who is tough on crime and will be fiscally responsible. This blog will not endorse this liar again. I hope she rethinks challenging Lance Pruitt because this blog has the final say who represents East Anchorage and Stuckagain Heights. Liz not ready to represent anyone in the state house. Liz is a great mom but not at the state house.
Anna Sattler has been waiting for justice since January 2001 when she raped by a musher named Carmen Perzechino, Jr who finished the Iditarod in 2004. She escaped from her attacker in van. Recently the US Marshall service had arrested this piece of trash in the Philippines. What this idiot did not know is that a commonwealth agreement was established in 1946 in exchange for military help in the future. Filipino police would immediately surrender any fugitive of justice to American authorities once caught. I hope that Anna will see justice in the future and this musher sees is a jail cell.
Anna has not let this event in her life in 2001 define her. She has been an advocate for Alaskan Native Traditions and had a TV show called Anna's Alaska. She is currently the community liaison for Alaska Native Village Cooperative which provides cost efficient electricity to the Alaska Bush.
Shame on you Anchorage Daily News for putting a false headline on Tuesday, August 20th, 2019. Had Governor Mike Dunleavy been able to actually set the Permanent Fund Dividend amount it would have been over $8000 not the $1600 that the Alaska House Majority and the Giessel ran Senate majority set for us Alaskan peasants to have. Remember Dunleavy did not set the PFD if he did the PFD would be larger than it is.
Who is funding this campaign. Cook Inlet Regional Inc. Special interest like the Alaska AFL-CIO, Alaska Democrat Party, NEA Alaska. Some of the signature gatherers are being paid by the Alaska Center. They want to elect a governor so they can have your PFD not you. Remember Alaska you are bigger than them. Dunleavy is Alaska's governor not theirs.
Shelley was killed on January 7, 1978 and a bunch of tourist found her body at Beluga Point south of Anchorage. Her killing was remained unsolved for over 40 years until a recent arrest of Donald McQuade at the Gresham Police Station near Portland. Alaska State Troopers just arrested Don McQuade and charged him with her murder after some DNA match and will soon face charges in Alaska.
Recently Ammon Bundy went into a gun store in Emmett, Idaho and was denied the right to purchase a handgun on Saturday, August 31st. He was cleared of all federal charges dealing with the Malheur refuge standoff on January 2016 that killed his father and charges were dropped in the Nevada due to mistrail. They forgot to remove him from the database. Legally he should been able to purchase a handgun. This is why background checks do not work because of mistakes like this. Background checks do not save lives and they do not prevent crime. Mr Bundy should be a purchase any handgun he chooses to protect his family. Please call your congress tell you support background checks you go bye bye.
Vince Beltrami your job as AFL-CIO is to represent workers in labor agreements not to suck the tax money and buy politicians like your organization has done. You feed elected politicians your famous Beltrami sandwiches to get them to vote your way. Your organization has also bought borough assembly all across this state to get your way. Remember Vince you are not the governor of Alaska Mike Dunleavy is. Just represent the worker in collective bargaining not buy politicians and corrupt them.
Most Alaskans do not want a change in how the Permanent Fund is distributed. Jay Hammond the governor who was the architect of the PFD this fund was meant to pay Alaskans the owners of the rights in terms of an annual payment. By paying a full PFD put money back in the economy and it actually helps the economy. When Alaskans apply for a PFD they expect a full check not a portion of the check. The reason the Alaska House Majority and Giessel ran Senate they want you to pay a tax every year instead of give you a full PFD. They know that most Alaskans will say no like they did back in 1999. Some legislators have voted to tax you about 20k in change now in the past 4 years for a family of 4 like Geran Tarr and Ivy Sponholz have done. Here is a link to an article I wrote earlier this year. http://swensonfamilymember.blogspot.com/2019/04/alaskans-apply-for-permanent-fund.html
Tell your lawmakers the PFD is your money not theirs.
Recently the Governor and the University came to understanding that a restructure is necessary to keep the University functioning that way it is suppose to.
The best way to reduce administration cost that can be done by having only having two campuses where the administration would be anchored at. Both UAF and UAA will continue their campus identities. Seawolves and Nanooks. Fairbanks would be north administration and Anchorage would be south administration. UAS would be downgraded to Juneau Community College due to population of the region and enrollment. All the community colleges in Valdez, Kenai Peninsula, Mat-Su College, Kodiak College as well as Juneau the newest community college students will have the option to take university class at their campus or take their classes online through a computer. Other places will also have the option of taking classes online through the two universities in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Sports Teams
The south and north campus will have their sports teams no need to consolidate these in any way. Most athletic programs are self sufficient and can pay for themselves.
Reducing or selling buildings on each campus
This can get complicated because some of these buildings are monthly endowments to the University of Alaska. Example the Alaska Airlines Center. Alaska Airlines pays UAA money each month to keep their name on that building. Sell that building you lose that endowment. Endowments are another way colleges and universities make income this income can help a college survive over public funding. Consolidated administrations work my Alumni the Community Colleges of Spokane has been doing it between two local community colleges since 1968 between two campus Spokane Falls Community College and Spokane Community College it has worked very well. They only have one sports team called the Sasquatch. Spokane Falls is west administration and Spokane Community is east administration. Main office is on Greene Street. This restructure will help the university and keep it functioning for future generations
Downtown Fairbanks businesses are the victims of the drunk people causing a problem at their business. Why should they pay for it when they did not cause the problem. Fairbanks officials should charge non profits instead for the city transporting the drunks to their locations. That would like asking a rape victim to pay for the services of their rapist. Please tell Fairbanks officials to charge the non profits not the businesses for drunk people removal.
Recently last Friday, August 30th, 2019 Governor Mike Dunleavy choose current representative Laddie Shaw to fill the late Senator Chris Birch's seat. This is a good choice his values fit the district well. This may change the way the senate thinks about the issues like the permanent fund dividend and taxes. Giessel lead senate has one less person on the side of massive government. Next session as Laddie parachutes himself into the senate chambers.
