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December 31, 2003
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Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Forest
Service moving ahead with Ketchikan sale - The U.S. Forest
Service is moving ahead with a timber sale near Ketchikan that
could lead to the first 10-year timber contract in the Tongass
National Forest, the agency said Tuesday. - Read
this story...
Alaska: Court
Says Alaska Can't Add Fish to Protected Lake - A U.S. federal
appeals court said that national wildlife rules bar the stocking
of salmon in a protected Alaskan lake, even if little harm comes
from multiplying the fish. - Read
this story... Alaska: State
Wrapping Up Loose Ends of ACS Contract - In accordance with
a settlement agreement with Alaska Communications System, the
State of Alaska has made strong progress on all tasks relating
to disentanglement of the Telecommunications Partnering Agreement,
scheduled for cutover on December 31, 2003. At the cutover, the
various parts, or bundles of telecommunications services, formerly
covered by the now-terminated TPA, will be contracted with other
providers. Some will continue with ACS as individual bundles.
- Read
more... Lifestyles: Keeping
Your New Year's Resolutions - How can you keep those resolutions
for a healthier new year? Behavior change experts have developed
guidelines that you can use to help transform your New Year's
resolutions into long-term lifestyle changes. - Read
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Ketchikan:
Dick Morris Columnist: The Ricochet Effect - Why does the opposition party tend to become dominated by its own extremists when it is out of power? Why did the Democrats follow liberal leaders like Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis while Ronald Reagan was president? Why did the right under Newt Gingrich take over the Republican Party during the Clinton years? Why is Howard Dean dominating the Democrats these days? Call it the ricochet effect. In the Clinton White House, we consciously used this theory to help the right dominate the Republican Party so that the centrists throughout America would vote to re-elect the Democratic president. Here's how it works. An incumbent
president tends to catalyze opposite reactions among the moderates
and the extremists in the opposition party. Because he is adopting
policies which help the nation and echo the demands of the broad
center, he attracts moderates in the other party. But as he pursues
the core policies of his own party, he generally triggers greater
hostility from the true believers on the other side. - Read
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Time has named the American Soldier as Person of the Year for 2003... Top Row Left to Right: Sgt.
Jason Landstrom United States Army; Brian Pyles United States
Air Force; Lance Cpl. Margret Collins United States Marine Corps;
LT James Thompson United States Navy - Middle Row Left to Right:
Keith E. Thomas, Jr. United States Navy; SPC Michael Moniak United
States Army; PFC Latseen Benson United States Army; Sgt. Jeremy
Mutart United States Army - Bottom Row Left to Right: Sgt. Zack
Pilcher United States Marine Corps; SSgt. Trevor Sayer United
States Marine Corps; P.F.C. Ryan Pickrell United States Marine
Corps; Sgt. Nick Charrier United States
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