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Alaska: State
Funding of Capitol Design Competition Questioned - Representative
Carl Gatto (R-Palmer) called into question the appropriateness
of state funding for the recent Juneau capitol design competition.
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Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Alaska: Legislature
Passes Resolution Regarding Fish Farming in Federal Waters
- The Alaska State Legislature unanimously passed the Committee
Substitute for HJR 15, a resolution that states the Alaskan Legislature's
opposition to Open Ocean Aquaculture (OOA) in federal waters.
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Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Alaska: Survey
Shows Alaskans Support Parental Consent Law - A recent public
opinion survey commissioned by the Alaska Legislative Council
and conducted by Dittman Research Corporation of Alaska found
that the Parental Consent Law (SB 24) passed by the Legislature
in 1997 enjoys broad, even bipartisan public support. The survey
found that nearly 80% of Alaskans support the law requiring at
least one parent to grant permission before a minor girl, 16
years of age or younger, is allowed to have an abortion. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Alaska: Air
Quality Upgrade at Ft. Wainwright Reduces Air Pollutants by 800
Tons a Year - The Environmental Protection Agency said the
recently-installed pollution controls at the U.S. Army's Fort
Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, at least 800 tons of particulate
matter will be captured rather than released to the atmosphere
around the facility. Particulate matter is the generic term for
the coarse particles - from sources such as wind blown dust and
unpaved roads - and fine particles - those from industrial fuel
combustion and vehicle exhaust closely linked to respiratory
disease. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Columns - Commentary
 Cliff
May: Wasn't
it better when spies stayed in the cold? - Perhaps there
was a good reason why secret agents used to stay secret.
So long as espionage was a
profession average citizens encountered only in fiction, we could
imagine spies were like James Bond - OK, maybe not so dashing,
but at least well-trained and effective. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Jake Rollow: Patriotism
touted at Minuteman camp - There's only one road into Minuteman
base camp. The guards at its entrance just waved as we drove
in. My partner, photojournalist Diana Molina, was behind the
wheel of our Jeep. I sat in the passenger seat. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
 Dale
McFeatters: The
Senate talk show - Some Senate Republicans are wisely beginning
to cool on the "nuclear option" to end the Democrats'
filibuster of a handful of President Bush's judicial nominees.
The option is, by a simple-majority
procedural vote, to ban judicial filibusters. It's called "nuclear"
because it would vaporize a longstanding Senate prerogative -
unlimited debate - and the fallout could be horrendous. Senate
Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada has threatened to thoroughly
gum up the workings of the Senate, which he can easily do, if
the Republicans go ahead with the change. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
Martin Schram: A
sunken treaty - Sorry, Charlie. First, your tuna-commercial
royalties dried up. Now you've just been displaced by a new species
- a dark-haired, white-mustached sort that surfaced unexpectedly
at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings the other
day. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
 Dick
Morris: Triangulate
Social Security By Offering A Choice Of Plans - In 1995,
the Newt Gingrich-led Republicans accused President Clinton of
having no serious intent to balance the budget. They said that,
while he was paying lip service to deficit reduction, he was
doing nothing about trimming spending and, indeed, was still
plotting further tax increases. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
 Preston
MacDougall: Chemical
Eye on Academic Freedom - What's good for the goose is good
for the gander. That would be just ducky as an opening line if
this was a Biological Eye commentary, but it did happen to be
my first thought when I read about the latest assault on academic
freedom, which has been under attack recently on multiple fronts,
and from surprising directions. - More...
Wednesday - April 13, 2005
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