Anchorage Assembly refuses to listen to community councils on homeless shelters

 Recently the Anchorage Assembly passed an ordinance that made more places available for shelters.  They refuse to listen to community councils especially the Midtown Anchorage Community Council where most Midtown business do not want these shelters close to their business.  Most of there members do not want it at the Old Alaska club location at 630 E Tudor Road.  There is a coffee stand there called the Common Grounds Coffee Stand which is also the Samantha Koening memorial.  This is where Samantha was last seen alive and the victim that ended Israel Coward Keyes able to kill again. 

Samantha Koening Memorial

Have several locations where you can house homeless people in mass quantities is actually better like what the incoming Bronson administration is proposing will be better for Anchorage residents versus smaller shelters with no accountability who is coming and going.  Large shelters you have to ability to offer serves to get them out of that situation.  You can also have caseworkers manage each client through the existing non profits that are there now.  

It is time to listen to the community councils and endorse the Bronson plan it is a solution.  The real reason the Anchorage Assembly opposes this idea they did not think of it first.  

Areas where homeless shelters are being considered

As you see most of it in the Midtown Community Council boundary. 

Alaska Native Corporations now eligible for Cares Act Money

Alaska Native Corporations are now eligible for Cares Act Funding.  The Supreme Court ruled that Alaska Native Corporations represent Alaska Native people.  They are the Chamber of Commerce for the Alaska Native people they represent.  I wonder how much will Koniag Native Corporation and Akhiok-Kaguyak Native Corporation will get in Cares Act money.  Now Alaska villages can receive Cares Act just like Anchorage. 
 

College athletes can promote products like other athletes now

 Recently the Supreme Court has ruled that college athletes may pursue sponsorship by corporate America.  This will help the athlete get the best exposure before they decide to play professionally or not.  This also will lessen the load of college student debt.   If that athlete gets these sponsorships.  Many college athletes also contribute to the community they represent.  Let's pretend we had a student from the Portland area who was given a scholarship to the University of Oregon to play football.  Nike decided to sponsor him after he did some endorsements for a new brand of cleats they were promoting.  This athlete let say came from a neighborhood in Portland where you have low income youths.  He could create a program with the Boys and Girls Club to promote football in his neighborhood by giving back.  As you know many athletes usually give back to the communities they come from.  After he played four his four years at the University of Oregon he was debt free due to the sponsorships he received from corporate America.  He was 3rd round draft pick for the local NFL team the Seattle Seahawks where he played wide receiver.  This player was able to establish a youth football foundation for children of Portland through the Boys and Girls Club.  The community actually benefits from this Supreme Court not just the athlete and the school.  This also allow the school to offer other scholarships to other students.  College athletics are what most university depend on for income outside of state legislatures annual budget which change each year depending on the tax revenue they receive and who is in charge of the legislative check book that year.