Posted by Jeanne Devon on July 16, 2021 · 1 Comment
BUT… BUT… HE’S TALL! It’s like we were saying in 2018. It’s not a good idea to vote for someone because they’re tall. Voting for an ineffective State Senator who says whatever his base wants to hear whether it’s true, or achievable, or not, will get you exactly where we are. CNBC has rated Alaska the worst state for business, and much is due to Gov. Dunleavy & Co. sabotaging our potential, or being unable to get things done, like statewide broadband. From the article: “This month, Dunleavy vetoed more than $200 million in state spending approved by the…
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Don Young, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Joe Biden, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy, Nation, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans, TALL Tales from Juneau, Tuckerman Babcock, US Congress · Tags Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy, Tom McKay
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 9, 2021 · 2 Comments
SHOW ME THE MONEY It’s budget time in Juneau, and we’re looking at a strange set of circumstances that is complicating the process. Weirdly, it’s a giant influx of cash! You were not expecting that, were you? Joe Biden’s amazing American Rescue Plan means Alaska will receive about $1.1 billion, plus hundreds of millions more for education from K-UA, tribes and local governments, and infrastructure projects. You’ll recall Sen. Murkowski, Sen. Sullivan, and Rep. Young all voted against this bill. Guess they are not interested in bringing home the bacon anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Now, the Alaska House and Senate must determine how to legally invest the money for the greater good of all Alaskans. Thankfully, there…
Category Alaska, Alaska Democratic Party, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Bill Wielechowski, Democrats, Education, Elections, Fairbanks, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy, Municipality of Anchorage, Numbskullery, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans, Second Amendment, Sen. Bill Wielechowski, Sen. Lora Reinbold, TALL Tales from Juneau, Voting · Tags Alaska SB39, American Rescue Plan, Felix Rivera, ghost guns, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Joe Biden, Lisa Murkowski, Rep. Don Young, Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, Sen. Lora Reinbold, Sen. Mike Shower
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 22, 2020 · Leave a Comment
TALL TALES from Juneau and the DC Debacle AND IT’S ALLLL ON TAPE Sometimes you know things, but it’s nice to have them proven right out loud, through dramatic and surreptitious means. Such is the case with the immediately infamous “Pebble tapes.” If you haven’t heard them, make yourself a beverage and get ready to be a fly on the wall as your beautiful state and all its salmon get sold down the river (not the beautiful blue Nushagak of today – the contaminated, cyanide-filled Nushagak of tomorrow). We now know what our elected Republican leadership thinks of us,…
Category ACLU, Alaska, Alaska Democratic Party, Alaska House Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Alaska Senate Race, Anchorage Police Department, Election 2020, Elections, Environment, Ethics, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Law & Order, LGBT, Lisa Murkowski, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Municipality of Anchorage, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Pebble Mine, Public Safety, Republicans, Skulduggery, TALL Tales from Juneau, Voting · Tags Alaska Division of Elections, Alaska Permanent Fund Corp., Alaska voting, Alyse Galvin for Congress, Bart LeBon, Ben Stevens, Casey Steinau, Corrupt Bastards Club, Craig Richards APFC, Dermot Cole, Dr. Al Gross for Senate, Gail Fenumiai, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Joe Biden Pebble Mine, Kevin Clarkson, Lisa Murkowski, Matt Buxton, Mel Gillis, No Pebble, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Pebble tapes, Ronald Thiessen, Sen. Dan Sullivan, Suzanne LaFrance, tom collier
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 4, 2020 · 6 Comments
TALL TALES from Juneau Eyes on the Dunleavy Disaster It’s Day 4,836 of the stay at home mandate. At least that’s what it feels like. We hope you are all staying well, taking good care of yourselves and each other, and following the stay-at-home direction from the state. We need you. Now, on to the usual shenanigans: THE DC DELEGATION Congressman Don “I call it the beer virus” Young has stopped backpedaling, and is now OUTRIGHT DENYING that he poo-pooed this pandemic, urging high-risk seniors to go about their daily lives as though nothing was happening, just a few…
Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Don Young, Education, Headlines, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy, Ohio Dan Sullivan · Tags Alaska education, Dan Sullivan, Dermot Cole, Don Young, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 31, 2018 · 6 Comments
Alaska voters, we need to have a conversation. And I know this may hurt a little. It’s about Bill Walker and Mark Begich, the two “moderates” in the 3-way race for Alaska governor – the first, a former Republican and incumbent, the second, a Democrat and former US Senator. The third player in our little melodrama is Mike Dunleavy, a former Republican right-wing conservative state senator from Wasilla who quit in the middle of his term. In the end, your vote is your choice and yours alone, but I can’t let you step behind the red, white, and blue curtain…
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Posted by Shannyn Moore on August 2, 2017 · 2 Comments
For decades, people have wondered what Charlie Brown would have done if he had ever gotten to kick the ball Lucy had been tricking him with for years. I suddenly feel qualified to answer this question definitively. Charlie did the happy Snoopy dance! His eyes may have been a bit wet and he may have whooped too loud for neighbors at 2 a.m., but his joy was known. OK. Maybe that was me during the vote to defeat the repeal of “Obamacare.” There have been many times I believed Sen. Lisa Murkowski would do the right thing for Alaska and…
Category Alaska Politicos, Headlines · Tags Alaska, Dan Sullivan, health care, Lisa Murkowski, Murkowski, Obamacare, susan collins, trumpcare, washington dc, western values project
Posted by Shannyn Moore on September 17, 2016 · 4 Comments
My parents first came to Alaska in the ’60s, driving a red and white Volkswagen bus. They came from Virginia and like so many Alaskans, they came for one year – that was almost 50 years ago and they never left. I’m happy to report I’m making the trip they did, though by a more northerly route. It’s a bit of a shock to my Alaskan mind to drive through four states in a day without going through a foreign country. There is so much to take in on open road and border crossings. You can drive for days on…
Posted by Zach Roberts on September 14, 2016 · 2 Comments
In a classic Alaska election flashback to 2010 we could see another write in candidacy for the US Senate. This time people might have a easier time writing in this candidate, at least when it comes to spelling than they did in 2010. In a statement to The Midnight Sun and in an interview with KTVA former Senator Mark Begich won’t rule out a write-in campaign. Midnight Sun: “I’m getting a lot of calls from people who say they are not satisfied with their choices and they are not interested in seeing another Miller Murkowski fight, I will keep listening to…
Posted by Shannyn Moore on February 21, 2016 · 2 Comments
State Sen. Pete Kelly, a Republican from Fairbanks, has introduced a bill to allow University of Alaska students to carry guns on campuses and into dorms. That’s public policy even more harebrained than putting pregnancy tests into bar bathrooms. Did Pete go to college? Did he live in a dorm? If so, he apparently didn’t notice that dorms aren’t exactly hothouses of good judgment. Adding firearms just increases the opportunity for adolescent bad judgment to become truly tragic. I sure wouldn’t send my kid to live in a dorm populated with gun-toting teenagers. I haven’t figured out what Kelly does…
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Barack Obama, Education, Election 2016, Headlines, Lisa Murkowski, Nation, Public Safety, Republicans, Second Amendment, Supreme Court, Whackjobbery · Tags Donald Trump, Guns on campus, Lisa Murkowski, Pete Kelly, Pope Francis, Pope v. Trump, SCOTUS, UAA, UAA guns
Posted by Zach Roberts on November 17, 2015 · 18 Comments
Even though state and local officials have no actual power over preventing or allowing refugees to be placed in their state – nearly all of them have decided to weigh in on the issue. The 10,000 or so refugees that were originally planned on being brought to the US for temporary placement would go through “13 separate security screenings – at the international, federal and state level – before they are considered for resettlement,” but that doesn’t seem to be enough for some members of the Alaskan delegation. While not a single one of the terrorists that attacked Paris last…
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Headlines · Tags Bill Walker, comments, congressman, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, Facebook, governor, immigrants, Lisa Murkowski, refugees, senator, Syria, terrorists