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Posted on August 26 at 1:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"any interesting thoughts or comments?"
Yeah, here's one: None of those three individuals are on the ballot today.
Posted on August 21 at 4:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It is a combination of coverage from Anchorage and Fairbanks.
For years they have provided a detachment of one helicopter at Eilsen Monday through Friday, to cover those Air Force training and duty operations that occur up here during the week. On the weekend it is unstaffed, and statewide calls are staffed out of Kulis in Anchorage. As far as I know that has not changed. For many if not most missions the Pavehawk helicopter at Eilsen is supported by a HC-130 Rescue Tanker (similar to a C-130 Hercules) with additional pararescuemen on board, out of Kulis.
So if you must get hurt, please do it during the week! Though on the weekend you might get a PJ parachuting into you from the HC-130, until the much slower helicopter can get there all the way from Anchorage. Regardless, we are glad our US Air Force National Guardsmen are stepping up to the plate! Thank you!
Posted on August 20 at 12:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"It's taught in first year law-school case studies that a person has the right to harvest an animal on private property that they've wounded off such private property."
KK, that is no longer true. State law must specifically authorize such a thing, if the private land is not otherwise open to hunting.
Of course we aren't talking about private land, now are we? Jeff King, as a "thirty year resident", should know that illegal hunting includes "to PURSUE, hunt, harass, harm, SHOOT, trap, net, capture, COLLECT, KILL, wound, or attempt to do any of the above."
Posted on August 19 at 11:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
alaskaangel23 pull it together, man. No one killed 120 moose. If the rest of your "facts" are as accurate as that one then King is in real trouble for sure.
And who says it was a "mistake"?
Posted on August 19 at 11:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What, no update today? The Newsminer staff couldn't find anything positive to write about Jeff King to the exclusion of all other facts? Couldn't cherry pick the one or two statements that were favorable to his case out of hours of testimony today? What a surprise...I guess no news is bad news?
Posted on August 19 at 5:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey Angus,
What agenda are you talking about anyway?
Swanny, least invasive - what would you suggest? "Mr. King, you are a bad, bad man. Don't poach a moose again or we might have to slap your hand." or maybe "Mr. King we are so sorry for having bothered you about poaching a moose, what with your busy racing schedule and all, next time you want to hunt in the park call us first and we will set it up for you."
This trial is about one thing - a proud man who doesn't want to admit he is wrong. He has received the exact same treatment everyone else who has been caught hunting in the park in recent years has received - a summons for two relatively minor misdemeanors that could be taken care of by lightening his wallet a few hundred dollars. Instead HE has chosen to try this in the media, and HE has chosen to force the government to spend thousands of dollars to bullet-proof and present their case. As is his right, of course. It is HE who has linked his personal reputation and sponsorships, and then put both on the line by acting recklessly at best, and intentionally at worst.
Day two here we come. Hey Newsminer, why didn't you print some of the more pertinent details of his recorded conversation that was played in court? Are you getting tired bending over backwards yet?
Posted on August 19 at 4:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Obfuscation and deflection. The lawyers best friends.
Posted on August 17 at 11:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is some of the most selective reporting I've seen on this matter. Of course that might be because the park service is not willing to blab details of the criminal case to the media as King has done. I'm willing to bet that many of Kings claims in the media will be borne out to be outright lies (such as the gps claims-didn't previous media reports say he has and was using a Gps? You betcha) when he is under oath. Every time King says something his story changes. No way will he get the max but he will get what he deserves. And the NM reporters will be there so that this newspaper can eat crow publicly when the truth comes out.
Posted on August 15 at 7:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey allhaileris - I've been there and enjoyed it, and I can in fact confirm that it is more than a mental construct and does in fact exist in reality. Which is more than I can say for some of your interpretations of its status and purpose.
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Posted on August 26 at 9:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Gee, after reading all these comments, I have changed my mind and wished I had voted differently. Oh, the humanity!
Not.
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