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October 30, 2003
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photo by Chris Wilhelm
Ketchikan - Front Page Photo: 'USCG's
Haunted Ship ' The United States Coast Guard held its Haunted
Ship Halloween event at the downtown dock Wednesday evening.
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scheduled Halloween events... Alaska: Governor
Wins Approval of Grants to Rural Communities; 131 Communities
to Receive $40,000 Each for FY 04 - Murkowski administration
OMB Director Cheryl Frasca gained Legislative Budget and Audit
committee approval Wednesday of a proposal to provide minimum
funding of $40,000 to each of 131 small municipalities in the
state for FY04. An earlier revenue-sharing proposal in July was
over-ruled by LB&A, which instead reallocated more funding
to urban municipalities and less to rural communities. Governor
Frank H. Murkowski directed OMB to make the second proposal to
ensure that each community would have at least $40,000 to "make
them whole." - Read
more... Alaska: AK Democrats Say Attorney General Again Tries to Delay Public Vote & Fails; Democrats want public vote on initiative to elect rather than appoint U.S. Senate vacancies - According to the Alaska Democrates, Attorney General Gregg Renkes attempted on Tuesday to further delay the public vote on an initiative to elect rather than appoint U.S. Senate vacancies. Quoting a news release from the Alaska Democrats, the Attorney General filed a motion to extend the previously established briefing schedule into mid November; upon review Superior Court Judge Mark Rindner denied the motion without comment. "This filibuster of the
people's right to vote by the Murkowski administration has got
to end - and soon," said Representative Eric Croft (D-Anchorage)
after hearing the decision. "We are counting on the courts
to uphold our Alaska initiative rights." - Read
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Stevens, along with Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., welcomed the Governor-Elect
to Capitol Hill. The group discussed a number of matters of mutual
concern including the forest fires ravaging Southern California.
During the meeting Senator Stevens told Mr. Schwarzenegger about
Alaska's Disaster Recovery Centers, which provide Alaskans with
a central location to receive information and assistance from
federal and state agencies following a major disaster. - View
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Alaska:
Alaska: Stevens
critic loses RuralCAP job; Tribal advocate says she was told
to resign after calling remarks "racist."- Vernita
Herdman, the tribal advocate who used the word "racist"
in characterizing a remark Sen. Ted Stevens made a few weeks
ago, was forced out of her job this week at the nonprofit Rural
Alaska Community Action Program. - Read
more... Alaska: Seven
priests abused children - Five Catholic priests sexually
abused minors within the Anchorage Archdiocese since 1966, the
archdiocese announced in a special report Wednesday. Two more
priests abused minors before they came to Alaska, the report
says. - Read
more... Alaska: Fisheries
group researches impoundment - Alaska fishermen may
be able to make more money off their catches if they hold the
fish live for a while before selling. - Read
more... Alaska: Company
could bring natural gas to the area - Alaska Intrastate
Gas Co. is conducting a marketing and feasibility study for bringing
natural gas service to Juneau and 16 other communities in Southeast
and Central Alaska. - Read
more... Alaska: University
of Alaska union votes for strike if talks fail - Most
University of Alaska faculty members who teach lower-division
and vocational courses have authorized their union to call a
strike. But teachers and university administrators, who return
to the bargaining table today in Anchorage, said they are hopeful
a strike will be averted. - Read
more... Mike Reagan: Greens Turn California Black - As a friend of mine said, "If my house had burned down in the California fires I think I'd get a flame thrower and go looking for an environmentalist's house to return the favor." He's right. These fires which
have killed a number of people and devastated 800 square miles
of Southern California, leaving it black and smoldering, and
destroyed more than 1,600 houses are solely the fault of the
tree-hugging Greens who hate humanity while claiming to love
the very forests their own insanely destructive policies are
burning to a crisp. - Read
more...
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