Comments by thewayiseeit
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Posted on August 22 at 8:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
YES on 1 with a NO on the rest. Prop #1 ain't gambling. Prop #1 is setting up a commission for existing and future gaming...or gambling if you so desire. YO.....I want a lottery and if we Alaskans decide to get into lotteries we will need a gaming commission to run it. So we get the gaming commission first, what is the difference? Now don't tell me I can't afford to gamble or it is a waste of good money. I waste good money on property taxes, downtown parking tickets and the gas it takes to go around three idiot roundabouts in North Pole. To each his own I guess.....and let's leave it that way.
And not to long ago some folks were screaming about an oil pipeline destroying the caribou herds. Folks are still screaming but now the animal of choice is the salmon.
One clear observation. Nobody seems to be blaming President Bush for the existence of these four ballot measures. Go figure !
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Posted on August 22 at 8:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Nice plan. Of course you understand that eminant domain is now the official tool for the city to use to accomplish Vision Fairbanks. Remember the private property by the Morris Thompson Center and the battle it was when the city used eminant domain to accomplish the transfer of ownership? Wait until those private investors mentioned by Vision Fairbanks try to purchase the property for the new bus and parking terminal one block over from where it is now......oh, I forgot, the bus terminal is not privately owned, the Borough owns that and after last night they will use eminant domain to secure the property.
I feel warm and fuzzy inside about this plan but my wallet just groaned from the future taxes it will have to fork out as Vision Fairbanks attempts to develop. When all those private investors get their Vision Fairbanks projects on line they will want those sidewalks and streets clean and shiney. The grass has to be trimmed, leaves raked up, flowers watered & planted. You know. The stuff city public works is supposed to do. Add a few more staff on the city payroll for the Vision so my property taxes can support Vision properties in their Quest to make a better downtown.
But I am going to try and get my monies worth out of this by using the new downtown skateboard park they propose. I am going to insist on handicap access to that park so my skateboard, the one with a seat and spoke wheels, can get a tune up now and then!
Vision Fairbanks has a shine to it. You can count on paying your share to keep it polished.
Posted on August 17 at 8:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I am going to vote NO on ballot prop. #4. If prop. #4 is meant to protect all the resources of Alaska for all Alaskans then, as written, it should defeat itself at the voting polls.
Posted on August 6 at 3:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I would suspect the Troopers photographed and documented the "crime scene" properly and the evidence for a violation has been established. Now the investigation proceeds to find the suspects and make arrests. Once the suspects have been found and charged the system provides due process and the people charged with a crime must have the state prove their guilt. If found guilty there will be penalties.
So far the only process taken in this traditional method of law enforcement is the discovery of a crime and the investigation into the details.
I suggest we finish the legal process first and then discuss what changes, if any, need to be looked at. Should wanton waste be redefined? Should legal hunts be looked at for changes?
All these postings get off point but they do show a slow and steady movement toward a future boiling point where the native/white issue will explode into hostile actions. When this happens you should all remember that it will be the criminal law of Alaska deciding the fate of persons, not races, who broke the laws.
I don't have a solution. Just telling you the way I see it.
Posted on August 4 at 4:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If Prop 4 has merit the need to bring up the role Whitaker or Shively play in this drama is a waste of time. Alaska already has strict laws dealing with clean water and mining. How is it now we need a new set of laws to protect what is already protected? I will vote no on Prop 4 because it invites litigation and will prevent nothing. If it ain't broke don't fix it. When existing mining operations renew their permits they will be subject to the workings of Prop 4 if it passes. Wake up Alaskans. We need salmon and we need mining and we have the laws to protect and assure all we Alaskans get what all we Alaskans own.
Posted on July 31 at 3:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If you want to call killing wolf pups unethical and appalling slaughter of our wildlife so be it. It is your opinion and I know you would support a more ethical and less appalling method of predator control that is acceptable. I would expect to see your support for a $500.00 bounty on all wolves that are not shot from the air. Trapping or shooting two wolves per licence a year (from the ground) is ethical and not an appalling slaughter of our wildlife. This would be because we always trapped wolves and we were always allowed to shoot two per year on our license.
Now if you are even against trapping predators as well as shooting them from the air I suppose it don't make any difference if you vote yes or no on ballot measure #2. If ballot measure #2 does pass and we can't shoot wolves from the air then next year we can all count on another ballot measure that calls for the elimination of trapping predators.
Time for an end to this. Get over it and move on.
Posted on July 24 at 3:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds great! But get rid of those round-a-bout road hazards and get back to straight roads. What a joke and what a pain.
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Posted on July 22 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Catch "22" folks. At some point the more energy you save the more it costs GVEA. The floating fuel adjustment charge was put in place to handle floating fuel costs. Still a good idea and fuel costs are not controlled by a GVEA Board of Directors, or BOD as many write.
If the North Pole fuel generator burns 100,000 gallons a day regardless of demand we pay for 100,000 gallons a day.....period. If we use a lot of electricity GVEA makes more money through our rates. If we use less electricity GVEA makes less money through our rates. We still pay for 100,000 gallons a day regardless but the less energy we use the less revenue GVEA takes in.
Because we have responded to conserving energy GVEA is taking in less revenue but they are still paying for 100,000 gallons of high cost fuel every day.
GVEA does have a problem. It is the Board of Directors.
Posted on July 22 at 1:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
At least we know the Mayor is up on her budget. Finding about $20,000 that won't be spent on what it was appropriated for is sharp. I can't wait to see where she digs up the money for the fire department in next year's budget.
Let's try it without the van for a couple months and the police chief will have more numbers added up so we can compare. The chief can keep track of all the rape and armed robbery calls they could not respond to during this period. Then the Mayor and Chief can really spin the numbers to warrant a budget increase somewhere we don't have one now. Actually, how many other real crime calls were not answered during the same period our police handled the 559 drunk person calls?
C'mom Mayor and Chief, just how bad is the impact?
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Posted on August 25 at 8:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Vote YES on ballot measure #1. If gambling is expanded the state will get a large cut of the profits and incorporated cities will be getting a share of the proceeds as well. More funding for the Mayor of Fairbanks to handle the drunks!
In this scenario how much the government gets will be determined by how much I decide to give them instead of the other way around. Go figure !
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