Friday
April 22, 2005
'Take
off'
Front Page Photo by Lisa Thompson
Ketchikan: Investment
club wooing Ketchikan is called a scam - PIPS: Endorsements aside,
officials call program Ponzi scheme. By PAULA DOBBYN
Anchorage Daily News - Scores of Ketchikaners are sending money
to a private investment club, possibly based overseas, that state
and business watchdog officials consider a scam. - Read
the rest of this ADN story...
Anchorage Daily News - Friday
- April 22, 2005
Ketchikan: FIRST
CITY PLAYERS INVITES KETCHIKAN TO GET CAUGHT UP IN CHILD'S PLAY
By Sharon Allen - Tonight, at 7:30 p.m., be sure to drive, walk,
strut, skitter, quack, crawl, or spin your way to the Saxman
Tribal House in Ketchikan. "Charlotte's Web" will be
performed by the children of Ketchikan, but it won't be just
child's play. The theatrical production is a dramatization of
the beloved story by E.B. White and whether your age is 90 days
or 90 years, you will not want to miss this enchanting performance.
- More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
 Ketchikan: Auction
Prizes and Interest Rising For First City Players' Second Annual
"Spring Swing Fling" By Sharon Lint-Allen - Anticipation
is mounting as ticket sales grow for First City Players' Annual
Spring Swing Fling scheduled for Saturday, April 30th at 7:00 p.m. The cost of a ticket is small
- only $20.00, and the night will be great - having all the excitement
of excellent music, fantastic dancing, awesome food, outstanding
drinks, and wonderful company with great conversation. It will
also include door prizes, a silent auction, a vocal auction and
drawings for 50/50 Raffles, plus the "Great Getaway Raffle"
as well.- More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
Alaska: Stevens
says "Don't Eat 'HALF' Baked Alaska, Know the Truth about
ANWR" - Today, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) questioned
the validity of what Stevens called the "Ben and Jerry's
ice cream stunt" held on Capitol Hill with an enormous Baked
Alaska. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
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National: Greenspan
says deficit could lead to new taxes By LAWRENCE M. O'ROURKE
- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress on Thursday
that he expects higher taxes as part of a bipartisan agreement
to bring the federal deficit under control.
"I don't doubt, at the
end of the day" that taxes will go up in any plan to cut
the federal budget deficit, Greenspan told the Senate Budget
Committee. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
National: Controversial
judges get Senate committee approval By MARGARET TALEV -
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday implored
colleagues on both sides of the aisle to "transcend party
loyalty in the national interest" after his panel moved
two of President Bush's controversial judicial nominees to the
full Senate for heated confirmation proceedings that could provoke
a constitutional crisis over filibusters.- More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
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National: Concerns
over proposed changes to Family and Medical Leave Act By
MARY DEIBEL - Patti Phillips didn't have to choose between work
and family when her 12-year-old daughter was diagnosed with bone
cancer. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
National: New
law allows deportation of war criminals By LISA HOFFMAN -
Across the United States, from Memphis to Modesto, hundreds of
alleged war criminals and torturers from a host of countries
are living freely. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
Columns - Commentary
 Preston MacDougall: Chemical
Eye on a Greener Environment - Just ask Kermit the Frog,
it's not easy being green.
Today is the 35th Earth Day,
and as the name implies it is observed all around the world.
Here in Rutherford County, Tennessee, the company that runs the
landfill gives out saplings for people to plant. My family now
has two tall, deciduous reminders of earlier Earth Days. One
is a Crimson King Maple and the other is a Tulip Poplar, Tennessee's
state tree. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
 Linda
Seebach: When
bloggers do journalism - Are bloggers journalists? Sure,
when they do journalism, and Ed Morrissey, "Captain Ed"
at the Web log called Captain's Quarters, sure was doing journalism
when he blew open a Canadian corruption scandal that was under
a judicial publication ban in Canada.
There's been hardly any coverage
of what the Canadians call "AdScam" in the U.S. press,
although something that could cause the Canadian government to
fall ought to be of interest to that country's southern neighbor,
but here's Morrissey's brief summary from April 2: - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
 Michael Reagan: A
Catholic Pope? - Along with all those pick-and-choose American
Catholics our pagan media is shocked shocked that the cardinals
have picked a new pope who is a real, honest to goodness Catholic!
According to the current wisdom,
the head of the Roman Catholic Church must confirm to the customs
and mores of the times even if the times happen to be filled
with such corruption as to make the decadence of ancient Rome
appear virtuous by comparison. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
 Dick Morris: Frist's
Folly - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist may have just killed
his hopes to be the Republican nominee for president in 2008
- by coming out against a proposal to bar illegal immigrants
from getting drivers licenses.
All but one of the 19 9/11
hijackers had a valid drivers license. In a bid to tighten our
security, House Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.,
R-Wisc., is pushing legislation to make it illegal for a state
to issue a drivers license to an illegal immigrant. At the moment,
he's trying to pass it into law as an amendment to the Supplemental
Defense Appropriation Bill. - More...
Friday - April 22, 2005
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June Allen Column
 Alaskan
Chris Leding: 1886-1975; A Norwegian adventurer - By June
Allen - Today's Ketchikan phone book includes a fair share of
Scandinavian surnames. There are, however, relatively few Norse
names among the records of the town's earliest settlers. Most
of Ketchikan's Norwegian population originated later, during
the early 1920s when the halibut fleet, its skippers, crewmen
and families moved north from the Seattle area. An exception
was the late Chris Leding, who wasn't yet a fisherman when
he settled down in Ketchikan the mid-1920s and who discovered
commercial fishing much later in life. - More...
Thursday - April 07, 2005
 A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day
It's
Iditarod Race Year 33! a ghost story of the southern route
Ketchikan's
'Rotary Wheel' Still Turning; Hardworking club celebrates a century
Sitka's
Pioneer Home Statue; Whose face is cast in bronze?
L.
Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure; His long winter in Ketchikan
ACS
Bids for KPU Telecom: ACS a longtime presence
Betty
King the Dog Lady; Ketchikan's one-woman humane society
Ketchikan,
Alaska - Let There Be Light! -- Citizens Light & Power and
then KPU
The
State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau
Read more feature stories by June Allen...
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