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Performing Arts Center By Rodney Dial - Congratulation to
Lallette Kistler and the Arts Council regarding their efforts
to secure a borough endorsement of $500,000 Cruise Ship funds
for a performing arts center. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
BAILOUT,
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY? by Ken Bylund - Go on the internet
and ask 'what is in the bailout bill'. You won't find
anything... biggest, best kept secret and We shouldn't
be cautious or suspicious of aristocrats running government?
Does anyone think GM will change if we give them billions [that's
thousands of millions] of dollars? Who believes it only postpones
an inevitable collapse of a corrupt and dying industry? Why is
that a good idea? Bernie Madoff should've been stopped when he
began the world's 2nd biggest ponzi scheme... show of hands on
that? So, SEC is incompetent or worse? Is corruption in government
responsible for our owing $10,674,204,242,448 or nearly... Eleven
- Thousand - Billion-dollars; roughly $35,000 dollars for
every citizen - 300 million of us. American money is worthless,
promissory notes for what? Don't worry? - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Taxes
By Dustin Hofeling - This is in response to Mr. Carro's assessment
of sales taxes in Ketchikan. I agree wholeheartedly with his
assessments. Taxation is necessary to pay for road maintenance,
utility lines, etc. We simply cannot go without taxes. However
the idea of raising taxes is a death spiral. As more money comes
in, the government will spend more, which requires more money,
which induces more spending. It is hard for the government (or
any other entity) to get out of such a chain of events. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Fireside
Pork By Dan McQueen - In this time of budget cuts, layoffs,
bailouts, states [Calif] going bankrupt, the very last thing
Ketchikan needs is to go into DEBT for a Performing Arts Center!
As this summer will prove, people ain't got the money to CRUISE
so that money will DRY UP! We can't afford another remodel rental.
- More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Roads
and Bridges to SOMEWHERE By Alan R. McGillvray - While I
may agree that Nome needs road communication with the rest of
the state, I say that a road to Hyder, AK and Stuart B.C., with
its attendant bridge from Revilla Island to the Mainland would
probably better serve the State of Alaska. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
PERFORMNG
ARTS CENTER??? By Charles Edwardson - I also agree with the
Borough Assembly's decision to endorse the performing arts center
with the head tax fund we receive from tourism and with the decision
to explore the old Fireside building for the location. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Re:
Offensive By Hunter Davis - Thank-you Gerry. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Middle
Class Bailout By Jim Thompson - While the letter was a bit
long winded & more than a bit highfalutin for my taste I
whole heartily agree with Mr. Hanger. If all the money that is
being given to bailout the business that are so critical to our
Nation's Economy was actually given to the American Citizens
that actually spend money that keeps our Economy working, the
BIG BUSINESSES WOULD NOT NEED A BAILOUT!!!!!!!! - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Senator
Murkowski's vote By Al Johnson - Well, Senator Lisa Murkowski
(RINO-Alaska) voted for Eric Holder to become the U.S.Attorney
General. Remember Holder from the Clinton administration? He
ushered through pardons for 16 Puerto Rican terrorists in the
last days of the Clinton administration. To refresh your memory
the following excerpt from the Los Anglos Times: -
More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Middle
Class Bailout Petition By Peg Travis - The petition and article
were well done and we do need to sign and get it to our politicians
as soon as possible. - More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
RE:
Horrible roads By Thomas Thrush - Where do you think that
snow and ice will go if not into the bay? I too applaud the government
workers who worked hard to keep our steets and highways drivable.
I also like the berm ideas, it's safer. -
More...
Thursday PM - February 05, 2009
Performing
Arts Center By Lallette Kistler - I would like to thank the
Borough Assembly for taking a giant step towards making a Performing
Arts Center in Ketchikan a reality. They recently endorsed the
contribution of $500,000 in cruise ship head tax funds to go
towards the First City Players purchase of the old Fireside/Elks
Club building. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
MIDDLE
CLASS BAILOUT APPLICATION FORM By David G. Hanger - Realizing
as they should have that the Congress of the United States forfeits
both its moral authority and its actual authority to govern by
representing only the one percent of this country that has managed
to steal so much from everyone else, and in recognition of the
precedent established that when the fox steals all the hen-house
chickens, the U.S. Government gives the fox another hen-house
full of chickens, we the vast physical majority of the U.S. citizenry
do hereby apply for relief from impoverishment and from the need
to support all these rich bastards who have lied, cheated, and
stolen all of us into this abhorrent mess. Since the U.S. Congress
has seen fit to finance the whims of the criminal elements of
our society, indeed has seen fit to limit communication essentially
to only the minions of that criminal element (lobbyists), and
has seen fit to cater to their needs and not to the needs of
the vast majority of the honest, hard-working citizens of this
country, it is only appropriate that the precedents established
to support this criminal element also be used to support the
honest, ordinary citizens of this country. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Sales
Tax By Justin Carro - I noticed a lot of discussion about
sales tax lately. Taxes are an unfortunate part of life and though
necessary to run the parts of our government most of us appreciate.
However, one thing that we need to keep in mind is that we have
nearly the highest sales tax rates in the state. Let that sink
in just a bit -- highest sales tax rates in the state, because
that is exactly what we will have if we raise them at all. This
is counter-productive to keeping our position as a regional hub.
- More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Offensive
By Gerry Knasiak - First let me assure Mr. Rob Holston that should
you have any opinions that are repugnant to me I would defend
your right to have them; they belong to you. Having said that
I would add that that right stops, as it should have at the Cabaret
performance on Friday , January 23,, 2009, when you blatantly
included as part of your act something that obviously reflects
your opinion that can only be termed racist. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Direction
Please! By James Schenk - Thank you for this forum, I enjoy
its content and our citizens participation in community concerns.
What I don't understand is why all the negativity? If this forum
is available why not utilize it to build our community, rather
than criticize its failings? When you build something you take
into account what that something's strengths and weaknesses are.
Then you begin to find ways to change the weakness to strength.
- More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Poor
Herring Stocks By John Arthur - This is in response to Larry
Demmert's Letter to the Editor. You can sure tell Mr. Demmert
knows "nothing" about healthy herring stocks. Maybe
he should come to Sitka and visit the Pioneer Home and senior
centers and learn all about "Healthy Herring Stocks"
here in Sitka. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
The
price of gas By Jim Dornblaser - The price of fuel (gas included)
is regulated by the demand on a base amount of supply. We are
living in a capitalistic free market society & I for one
am GLAD, HAPPY, wouldn't want it any other way. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Thank
you for the help By Judith Green - This morning as I was
trying to get out of my driveway, my car got high centered. SO
the car was half in the drive and half on the South Tongass Highway,
at the bottom of Shoup St. While standing there trying to figure
out how to un-do, an AP&T employee saw the dilemma, turned
around and stopped to assist. Then a neighbor on Shoup St saw,
and stopped and came over to assist. Then a truck with a snow
plow attahment stopped in the middle of the highway to stop traffic
from both directions, and voila! the car was freed and I was
ready to go. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Underneath
the Politics By Tim Reveri - When my Grandpa entered the
hospital two weeks before my birthday, it was supposed to be
for a simple operation. It was so minor that my parents almost
forgot to tell me. The procedure went off without a hitch, and
my dad visited him the next day, telling me later that my Grandpa
was his normal, albeit incoherent, grouchy self. He spent his
time in bed bemoaning the Yankees pitching staff to the family.
Two days later, he suddenly fell into critical condition, he
had been retaining fluid in his stomach but, since there were
only two nurses tasked to the entire hospital floor, it had gone
unnoticed. My grandpa had gotten up to go to the bathroom and
ended up not seeing the next morning. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
Horrible
Roads By Jerilyn Lester - I would like to inform Ms. Lawrence
that as soon as the city could move the snow they did. The EPA
has told them they could not dump it into the bay because of
the chemicals that are put onto the road. When they remove the
snow this time should we suggest that they dump it into your
yard? Or is there somewhere else that you would like it put?
I don't want it in my yard, but I have to agree with Mr. Young
that for you to complain is completely uncalled for. - More...
Tuesday PM - February 03, 2009
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