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November 18, 2003
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Front page photo by Chris Wilhelm Ketchikan: Front
Page Photo 'Two hour parking' - This photograph of the downtown
area was taken Monday morning.
Ketchikan & Statewide: Mayor
Salazar Announces "If I Were Mayor..."Essay Contest"
- Ketchikan Borough Mayor Michael Salazar joins Mayors across
the state of Alaska in sponsoring the third annual "If I
Were Mayor, I Would..." Essay Contest for sixth graders.
The Alaska Conference of Mayors is sponsoring this statewide
essay contest to encourage youth to become more engaged in community
leadership, while continuing to develop their writing skills.
Winners of the "If I were Mayor, I Would..." Essay
Contest will be announced during Alaska Local Government Week
which is January 11th - 17th, 2004. - Read
more... Alaska: Secretary
Thompson Urged to Reduce Native American Health Disparities
- Joined by 19 of her colleagues, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski
on Friday asked U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy
Thompson to comply with, rather than fight, two recent U.S. District
Court rulings against a policy created by the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) that two judges claim hurts low-income
Alaska Natives and American Indians. Murkowski, in a letter to
Secretary Thompson released Friday, said she has concerns because
of a pattern of payment refusals by the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within HHS. The refusals
apply to emergency and specialty care referrals for Alaska Natives
and American Indians who are eligible for Medicaid. -
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Ketchikan:
More than 1,000 feet beneath
the ocean surface, and hundreds of miles from the closest city,
Bob Stone of the National Marine Fisheries Service lies flat
on his side, cramped into a two-person submersible, and peers
out a small porthole. Beyond the one-and-a-half-inch thick Plexiglas™
window is a world steeped in darkness. As the submersible reaches
the bottom of a submarine canyon, the pilot turns on the floodlights
and a video camera. Suddenly, Stone's world is filled with the
truly amazing colors and fantastic shapes of a deep-sea coral
garden. - Read
more... Columnist Mike Reagan: Free Colonel Allen West - Last June the FBI arrested a 20 year-old college student who was plotting to bomb Coast Guard and National Guard bases in Washington state. According to NewsMax.com, Paul Douglas Revak tried to get another student to help him bomb the Coast Guard station in Bellingham, Washington. He was also accused of talking about obtaining or making C-4 explosives and bombing other military installations including Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor and the Washington Air National Guard and Army National Guard stations near Bellingham International Airport. Court papers revealed that Revak described himself as an "anarchist" and gave another student a "manifesto" declaring war against the government. For this grievous offense which could have killed large numbers of U.S. servicemen and women, Revak could have been sentenced to life in prison, but soft hearted old Uncle Sam made a deal with him which his lawyer says will allow this punk kid to be out of the slammer by Christmas, even though the lesser charge he copped to could have kept him behind bars for 10 years. Contrast that to the treatment
now being accorded to a genuine American hero, Lt. Col. Allen
B. West who now faces serious punishment and the end of his distinguished
military career in the United States Army for saving the lives
of his men. - Read
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