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January 22, 2003
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Front Page Photo by MC Kauffman
Alaska: State
Could Receive Big Boost In Highway Funding - Alaska will
receive a big boost in highway funding if a bill currently under
consideration is enacted by the U.S. Senate, said Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
- Read more... Alaska: U.S.
Supreme Court Rules Against Alaska in Red Dog Mine Case -
In a 5-4 decision Wednesday the United States Supreme Court ruled
against the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC)
in the Red Dog Mine case. The majority opinion, authored by Justice
Ginsburg and joined by Justices Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and
O'Conner, holds that the Clean Air Act provides the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) with the authority to disapprove a state
agency's discretionary choice of the "best available [pollution]
control technology" for permits subject to that Clean Air
Act requirement. - Read
more... Alaska: U.S.
Supreme Court Decision In Red Dog Case Disappointing Says Sen.
Murkowski - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Wednesday that
she was very disappointed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to overrule
the state concerning air quality at the Red Dog mine in Northwest
Alaska. - Read
more... Alaska: Sen.
Bunde To Give Presentation on High School Graduation Qualifying
Exam - Wednesday Senator Con Bunde gave a preview of a presentation
he will offer to Alaska legislators, legislative staffers, and
the public on January 26th regarding the "exit exam."
- Read
more... Alaska: State
study says private prisons prove cheaper; State-run prisons cost
$16.79 more per person per day than private firms - The state
could save money by having a private company, rather than the
state, operate a prison in Alaska, according to a state Office
of Management and Budget study. But the cheapest option is continuing
to send inmates to a private prison in Arizona. - Read
this story... Alaska: Prison
report sheds little light on costs...PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC: State
distances itself from numbers - The battle over rival bills
to build an Alaska mega-prison is back in the Legislature, with
a new dispute over whether a private prison would be cheaper
for the state than a public one. - Read
this story...
Dick Morris: Death
By Negatives - The negative ads of Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt
succeeded brilliantly: They both lost Monday in Iowa. The winners
- John Kerry and John Edwards - both abstained from negatives
and won. - Read
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Ketchikan:
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A fire department in any community, large or small,
commands citizen respect. When fire sirens blare, traffic obediently
tries to pull over and people hold their breaths - hoping it's
not their house, their business, their school or anyone they
know. Fire has been a frightening scourge in history from Nero
in Rome to Chicago's Mrs. O'Leary to Ketchikan's Bill Mitchell.
As new American communities sprang up in the "Go west, young
man" spirit of the nineteenth century, one of the first
things responsible pioneers did was establish fire departments.
When the westward-ho movement reached the Pacific coast and the
settlement-surge angled north, fire departments were among the
very first organizations founded in Alaska. -
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