Anchorage cab dispatchers should be required to be certified as a dispatcher

I have been directly involved with Anchorage's industry since June 2004 when Alaska Cab hired me as a telephone representative.  Then on Christmas Day, 2004 I was promoted to dispatcher now during those seven years til February 2011.  I put a human element to the folks at Alaska Yellow Cab dispatch.  In November 2004 Alaska Cab purchase of Anchorage Yellow Cab was finalized.  Due to my past jobs at a Bill Collector at three different collection agencies I knew the geography of Anchorage very well.  In order to serve someone in Anchorage municipality our Collections legal department required the collectors to get a complete physical address.  The dispatcher was much more they are the lifeline between cab driver and cab dispatcher.  They must also cooperate with law enforcement.  I was the only dispatcher due to my lifetime training in dealing with first heroes to completely cooperate with law enforcement due to father being a volunteer firefighter with North Bend and Kittitas County District 7 Volunteer Fire Departments.  This resulted in a few things in March 2010 a police detective called me asked me if Rafael Martinez was working he was in Alaska Yellow Cab 15.  I called Rafael told him I was going to re dispatch his trip he was in the Airport Heights area please head to dispatch I need to talk to him.  The detective came to Alaska Yellow Cab dispatch were I was working.  Then where Cab 15 showed up at dispatch he was arrested my boss had no idea I was the architect of this arrest.  Here is an example of an inexperience dispatcher when a cab driver named Dale Pokarney was killed by a drunk driver on January 30th, 2010 when he was driving on Fireweed Lane and Arctic Boulevard called me said a cab driver was killed.  I spoke to the APD officer gave Susie Taylor's personal cell phone number I had at the time.  I told the dispatcher that we are not to put anything to the fleet until we get the official communication from Alaska Yellow Cab dispatch office.  Very few dispatchers wrote on the incident log like they were supposed according to Title 11 regulation. I wrote it down that day in the log book.  Cab dispatchers are not required to have a criminal background check and they also not required to have a geography test neither are cab driver for that matter since Jackie Ransom made it an open book test in her classes also commented why the cab industry should be the way it is in her classes.  You current have dispatchers at Alaska Yellow Cab and possibly Anchorage Checker Cab who have criminal records dispatching.  This was not covered in the recent AO 2013-109 overhaul.  I would recommend that dispatch companies for all vehicle for hires be required to be certified by the Anchorage Fire and Police Department go through not just drug testing but also a criminal background check they must also be required to take geography test administered by the Municipal Transportation Inspection Department.  I support loosening Anchorage Title 11 we must keep safety for all vehicles for hire including taxicabs.  I have been following the Anchorage Transportation Commission since July 2011 when I made my first appearance. 

Gay lobby is telling lies about the Indiana freedom to practice business beliefs bill

First of all this only applies to small business if a large company outlet wants to do they can most likely will not adopt this law.  Business owners can and will not or have ever had said you are gay I will not serve you.  First most small business have a sign that say we have the right to refuse service.  That is if you have a bad attitude you can refuse service which is what the plaintiffs did in the Sweet Cakes by Melissa cake when the couple was rude they used the gay line afterwords.  In the Tri Cities, Washington florist case the Attorney General stuck his nose when he was not asked to get political points that is what socialist lawmakers like Bob Ferguson do.  So Gay lobby quit telling lies and if a business direct said that to you then you need to take your business elsewhere.  That is what people do not go to the courts and whine that is what babies do.  Since most leftist and liberals are babies.  Maybe we should treat them like a baby you need permission before you open your big fat mouth.  These business are expressing a first amendment right now Indiana business must display a sign that due to religious beliefs we have to the right to refuse service against our beliefs.  You know I would like a gay activist to sue a cab company or Liberals sue a Muslim business for having a prayer rug in their business.  Gay agenda equality needs to be done at the ballot box not the judical box.  You speak equality now practice it not force.  This is not a civil rights issue it a human issue.  When science proves a Man has sex with a man and produces a child.  Then we will except gay marriage.  Do not use the Thomas Beattie argument from Oregon he is a biological female.  Man never got pregnant plus he has no penis. 

Hey Alaskans tired of switching your clocks back and forward

Hey Alaskans tired of switching your clocks back and forth.  Please call your legislatures and support Senator Anna Fairclough MacKinnon's Daylight Savings bill.  Here is an idea have most of Alaska not switch.  Since Alaska is in two time zones.  In the summertime all of Alaska can be in one time zone.  Then in the summertime the Aleutians would fall forward and SE Alaska could fall backwards then in SE Alaska they call fall forwards to be inline with the Pacific Northwest.  The Pacific Time used to include SE Alaska until the 1970's.  Aleutians would only change their clocks in the summertime to be inline with the state.  They would not be inline with the rest of Alaska.  You would create three time zones.  One would be call the Aleutian area only springs forward not back.  Then most of the state would not do the practice.  SE Alaska would continue to spring forward and fall back.  This would work.  Now we know the business community and sports fans do not like it either.  Well what if Washington and Oregon also decided quit the practice which their are bills in both legislatures right now to all terminate the practice.  Then this two argument would be squashed because Portland, Spokane and Seattle no longer practiced it then it would still be only one hour ahead unless in SE Alaska then the same time half the year.  Then the shocker what if California decide to no longer practice this either.  What if Rand Paul or Ted Cruz became president and in his first hundred days the first executive order was to stop the practice of daylight savings time nationwide.  Every state would choose what zone they want to be in.  Better yet eliminate these time zone that were created at the turn of the century at the time when railroad was king and airplanes were still in the baby stages.  Automobile was in its tweeny stages.  Time Zones started about the 1910's.  Call your legislature and tell them to support Eagle River State Senator Anna Fairclough MacKinnon's bill Get rid of daylight savings time bill.  The Anchorage 12th man support this legislation.

Indiana Governor stood up for liberty of small business to stand on their beliefs

Well Sweet Cakes by Melissa an Oregon business and that Tri Cities elderly lady in Washington State who owns a florist have been sued to discriminating against a gay couple.  Which they did not do any such thing.  They practice their religious beliefs which is in the United States Constitution it is the 1st Amendment under freedom of religion.  Small business in both cases Government intervened in the second case of the Tri Cities florist in Washington when Attorney General Bob Ferguson a former socialist who sat on the King County Council decided to score political points and sue a small mom and pop bakery without the gay couples permission who was a long time customer at this bakery she understood the beliefs and was willing to do business elsewhere.  In the Oregon case the couple got mad after explaining their religious beliefs gave them places where they can make their cake.  This couple trained by the communist gay lobby decided to complain to the State of Oregon forced this business underground.  We praise the State of Indiana for doing what Arizona refused to do but then again.  This could make Indiana lose business and they could also lose the Indianapolis Colts to Los Angeles that would be interesting in itself Los Angeles Colts or the Pacers could become the Seattle SuperSonics.  I did not think this was the way Seattle would get a team.  Could their be lights out at Lucas Oil Stadium,  no more tournaments.  You know if I were Rand Paul I would announce my candidacy for president in Louisville overlooking the river facing north say you what my neighbor Indiana did they decided to protect liberty now Idaho you are the liberty minded state besides Montana why not do the same thing.  Come on Idaho Governor Butch Otter get your legislature together and sign a law making Idaho a state where small business has the right to protect religious freedom. 

Stupid solution to issues hire a bureaucrat to solve Anchorage chronic drunk problem

Politicians like Elvi Gray-Jackson, Ethan Berkowitz  and Paul Bauer, Jr believe that if you pay someone a fat 100K salary have a nice office you get to tackle issues like the homelessness.  Here is a better idea why not have non profit christian based charities like the Downtown Soup Kitchen, Catholic Social Services, Salvation Army, Hope Worldwide Alaska help along with faith based charities deal with the problem give a little money to the issue of chronic homelessness.  I am sure the Salvation Army and Hope Worldwide Alaska will gladly help Anchorage build a faith based treatment center where Alcoholics Anonymous can be used to help the problem.  Court ordered drug and alcohol treatment does not work either you have to be at the bottom and recognize that you are powerless under alcohol and drugs before the person will seek help.  Let's stop putting band aid on this address the problem get the native corporations and tribes involved get the bar owners involved.  Address this problem with faith based results. 

Bowe Bergdahl could end court martialed with no death penalty

Sgt Bowe Bergdahl the former JBER soldier is being charged with acts of desertion according to the Washington Post and Alaska Dispatch News.  On March 25, 2015, he was charged by military prosecutors under a military code for putting other members of his unit in danger and desertion under articles 85 and 90.  One of those members who I will not name is a co worker at my current job.  According to the ABC Radio reports I herd on March 26th according to KXLY Radio and KAST Radio an Astoria station.  I had also heard due to his actions he will not be charged with the death penalty but could serve the rest of his life in a military prison.  If convicted he will be reduced to the rank of private forfeit all future pay.  The real question is will he have to pay income tax on it since his pay will go to house him in a military prison.  He will be reduced to rank E-1 be dishonorably discharged means no military benefits can not use VA benefits revoked of all military base access.  Can not be president or possibly a federal elected official.  He could return to Hailey, Idaho as a citizen but would have to pay his own way since can not go to school on GI Bill.  A dishonorable discharge is the military way of say you are fired.  If he is in lifetime incarnation he would get medical benefits during his prison stay only.  His family could visit him at a military prison facility for the remainder of his physical life. 

Anchorage Municipality coffers may end up in a surplus

Since their will be $4 to 6 million dollar savings.  First of all Anchorage has real needs that is the following instead of creating a bureaucrat to solve the homeless problem like Elvi Gray-Jackson suggested.  Let charities like Downtown Soup Kitchen, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and private non profits do this.  Government should not be involved in this issue.  The Anchorage 12th man will make sure this will not happen.  Let's deputize all security personal by putting mini Anchorage Police substations at Dimond Center, Tikatknu Commons, 5th Avenue Mall, Northway Mall, Glenn Square Mall, Carrs Sears Mall, Muldoon Mall, Loussac Library and Anchorage Bus Accommodation Center if not a full time officer district these officers.  Give the Community Service Patrol the power to arrest.  If you go to the drunk three times in a year you must sign a statement stating you have abused your public benefits.  If you are picked up a fourth time a mental evaluation will be done.  You will be required to have a payee for SSI benefits if a fifth time if you came from an Alaskan village.  You will get a one way ticket back to that village unless you have medical reason you will not be allowed back in Anchorage unless you want to go to jail.  You are kicked out of Anchorage for abuse of taxpayer funds.  More police and fire is good as well.  Let's also do something that might help how about some property tax relief reduce the property taxes for other areas who do not use much municipal resources.