Comments by akjak
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Posted on August 24 at 9:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
There are always fun and interesting people to talk to while waiting in the line to sign up for swimming, so I can't say that there isn't some enjoyment. Nonetheless, the system of signing up for swimming lessons with the Borough is ridiculous and archaic. With the technology available today there is no reason to continually use this system - let the public sign in using computers and the internet! Public computers can be found at the library for those people who don't have a computer at home.
On One mother revels in the ritual of swimming lesson sign-up day
Posted on August 24 at 9:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
overamped48 and james, you are both racist idiots. The wood bison WAS here, but disappeared. The ADFG is working on re-introducing them into the Yukon Flats in the near future - they've been working on this for over 10 years.
I am so impressed with Chief Randy Mayo and Stevens Village for thinking outside of the box and working on a proactive, long-term solution to feed their people and their spiritual needs. These people are doing what they can to help themselves. BRAVO, Chief Mayo! Most urban Alaskans I read in these pages are always asking for handouts from the government (fuel rebate) and wanting to keep on with their wasteful ways (drill for oil, drill for oil, drill for oil).
The people who live on the land realize that we have to adapt if we want to survive in our changing ecosystem rather than keeping on with the same ol' stupid bad habits. Excellent work, Stevens village.
Posted on August 23 at 4:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The point isn't whether or not he was stoned or text messaging. The point is he killed a fine lady and that the courts have decided that her life is only worth 3 years.
Posted on August 21 at 11:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Pragmatist and Wes, It is the law. ADFG broke the law. Period. You may not like the law and so you need to get it changed, but you can't break a law just because you don't like it or it's inconvenient. Wanton waste is also against the law and people who commit it should be punished to the maximum extent possible. ADFG should have conducted their wolf control in March (before the pups were born) instead of waiting until they were born. Now, they deserve to be punished for breaking the law. Period.
On Zoos not contacted before Alaska biologists killed wolf pups
Posted on August 20 at 3:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Doing hard time in the Arizona desert jail is the place for them. We certainly don't need them to be ambassadors for the U.S. in a foreign country. I've heard stories of people like this going over to Iraq and wantonly shooting innocent Iraqis - women and children.
Thanks, Bush, for choosing to get us into this mess and forcing the Army to take low-life scum like this to make its recruitment quota. And, thanks for bringing some real gang members to Fairbanks, Alaska. Our gang member wannabes that were already here were bad enough.
Posted on August 18 at 4:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Some pits are very sweet. The problem is that despicable humans bred them to be fighting dogs and so they have a tendency to be more likely to snap and attack than do most breeds. I am so sorry for the family and friends of little Isis. May God be with them and comfort them during this time of horrible grief.
Posted on August 18 at 10:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Not_from_North_Pole, Yes, there may be more grayling downstream from Ft. Knox - but those grayling are probably laced with arsenic. I'd be careful how many you eat.
Mr. Cole, You're so openly biased your articles aren't even worth reading.
Vote YES on 4.
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Posted on August 17 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
James, your racist comments are tiresome. Wisechief is right. He knows that quickly removing a large portion of a wildlife population (wolves or bears) will send the entire ecosystem out of balance. Then you see overgrazing of the habitat and a long-term reduction, not an increase, in the ungulate population. This is especially true of caribou - see Delta Herd as an example. With the compounding effects of global warming on willow, the long-term unintended negative effects of aerial wolf control on moose populations is unknown. In other words, the science that needs to occur to determine whether predator control should happen hasn't been done. To work with the ecosystem, reducing predation more gradually with trapping efforts, makes more sense.
Posted on August 17 at 10:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
These hydrokinetic projects should belong to the affected communities, not some company from Texas who is only interested in profits.
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Posted on August 26 at 6:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If you like a continually weakening dollar, endless war to enrich oil executives, a crashing housing market, U.S. manufacturing jobs going overseas and being replaced by service jobs here in the U.S., the reputation of America in the toilet, vote John McCain! He's a Bush lover and these are all things brought to us by Bush and the Republicans.
If you want someone to lead us proudly into the future by investing in renewable energy research and development - bringing good jobs back to America, improving the education of our children, salvaging the reputation of America and rebuilding alliances, removing tax breaks from companies who take our jobs overseas, reducing the tax burden of working Americans and placing that burden on those who can afford it but haven't been paying it - rich oil companies and CEOs, vote for Obama and Biden.
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