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February 05, 2004
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Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Alaska: Governor
Gives Details of Gas Pipeline Negotiations To Joint Session of
Legislature - At the invitation of the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House, Governor Frank Murkowski spoke
Wednesday to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature, laying
out his administration's efforts to negotiate acceptable draft
contracts with two sponsor groups interested in building a pipeline
to transport North Slope natural gas to markets in the Lower
48. - Read
more... Ketchikan & Statewide: Governor
Declares Feb. 7 "Joe Soloy Day"; In Memory of Pioneer
Alaskan Aviator - With an executive proclamation, Governor
Frank Murkowski has designated February 7, 2004, as "Joe
Soloy Day" in recognition of the contributions Soloy made
to Alaska aviation and to aviation safety. Soloy passed way on
Sunday, February 1st in Washington state - Read
more... Ketchikan: UAS Ketchikan Students Make Honors List - University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan announced the names of the students making the UAS Chancellor and Dean's list for the Fall 2003 Semester. Jane Blasingame, Joseph Branco,
Jean Burns, Leslie Chapel, Anastasia Connolly, Dollee Enright,
Jody Fletcher, Diane Hack, and Kerry McNeil made the Fall 2003
semester Chancellor's List. To be eligible for the Chancellor's
List, a student must earn a 4.00 grade point average and complete
at least 12 credit hours during the semester. - Read
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Alaska: Report...Inflation Erodes Education Dollars; Impact of Legislative appropriations diminish over time - A report released Tuesday by Legislative Research confirms what school districts across Alaska already know: state classroom funding, measured in inflation adjusted dollars, has fallen significantly in recent years. "Every year the foundation
formula is not increased, it's a decrease in the spending power
of classroom funding," said Representative Mary Kapsner
(D-Bethel). "Districts are under tremendous pressure to
meet the new, underfunded federal No Child Left Behind and the
state's Department of Education requirements." - Read
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Mike Reagan: Lies and Slander - It's interesting to see John Kerry and Terry McAuliffe questioning Bush's status as commander in chief, falsely claiming that he was allegedly AWOL from the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War while other Democrat candidates allow their surrogates to repeat this instead of standing up and telling them, "You're wrong." But they just let it go and
say that they have a right to have their opinions and that Mr.
Bush has to answer this charge. Well Mr. Bush answered this slander
in the 2000 elections. So did George magazine, which did a brilliant
job of investigating this whole matter on Oct. 10, 2000. They
- and the New York Times as well - found the charge to be bogus
that the president indeed did serve his time. Yes, he did
take time off to get involved in a senate campaign in Alabama
but then made up the time and was given an honorable discharge
- something they don't give to people who haven't lived up to
their obligations. Read
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And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
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