Ranking Republican on Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski asked U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar about Indian Health Service (IHS) Funding. The question was asked during a hearing of the subcommittee. Murkowski asked if Salazar could do more about IHS funding to keep up with costs that [...]
Congressman Don Young today submitted his application to run for his 21st term for the House of Representatives. For almost 4 decades, Young has served Alaska through some of the most difficult times encountered by the state and its people. After filing for re-election, Young relayed his personal reasons for re-running for the same position, [...]
Recently, members and high officials of the Alaska State Troopers (AST), Anchorage Police, Anchorage Fire Department, Anchorage Police Citizens Academy Alumni Association, and the International Fire Fighters Association gathered at Fire Station 1 in Anchorage to declare a statewide adaptation of the Yellow Dot Program in Alaska. “The program is for all people who have [...]
Today’s announcement of Shell regarding the approval of the oil discharge prevention and contingency plan for Alaska’s Chukchi Sea has pleased Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who after Shell’s announcement, relayed the following words: “I appreciate Interior’s final approval of Shell’s contingency plan for the Chukchi,” Murkowski said. “Today’s decision confirms what we’ve known for some time [...]
Funding cuts that Air Force wanted get a big no from U.S. Senators from Alaska Today, Alaskan Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich introduced legislation that prohibits the Air Force to move the location of the F-16 Aggressor squadron from Eielson Air Force Base in the Interior of Alaska to Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska. As [...]
Commercial loans have been recently approved by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) Board of Directors – one is the Novella S. Larson Revocable Trust of 2000 and the other is for the Juneau Residences, LLC. The main purpose of both loans is for term financing of newly-constructed buildings and facilities in Anchorage and [...]
The Alaska Supreme Court came up with the unanimous decision to cut approximately $50 million from a judgment awarded to nonresident commercial fishermen who had filed a class action lawsuit against the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. The decision has been announced on January 20, 2012, more than 2 decades after the lawsuit was first [...]
Diabetes Type 2 management is now needed for children. Alaska’s young children are in danger of obesity and all the adult ills that are linked to obesity. In recent figures published today by the Alaska Health and Social Services Department (HHS), our pre-school kids are developing obesity already. The figures come from pre-schoolers through various [...]
Personal lawyers for sexual predators, be aware, protection from sexual assault and abuse are the focus of Anchorage Representative Pete Petersen as he introduced his Child Protection Legislation. It is House Bill 278, “An Act allowing as a condition of probation for a defendant convicted of certain sex offenses a prohibition against the defendant’s residing [...]
Engineering is only one of the hats that the Alaska-based soldiers that arrived in Fort Huachuca, Arizona wear. Thirty combat engineers that deployed from Alaska to work on constructing a road along the Mexican border arrived in high style on January 6, 2012. They jumped from a plane, being the first paratroopers to jump into [...]