Credit cards make upgrading to first class affordable if you like to travel a lot. Alaska Airlines miles card, their credit cards offered on their website, automatically add up miles on all purchases you make, meaning the more you spend the more miles you have to travel with. Members of Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan can [...]
Senator Lisa Murkowski is one of the 10 US Senators who sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Lisa Jackson, urging the agency to consider Highly Influential Scientific Assessment (HISA) on the hydraulic fracturing and groundwater near Pavillion, Wyoming. By issuing HISA, EPA would conduct its most extensive and rigorous peer review process over [...]
The National Weather Service in Fairbanks, Alaska says that Fort Yukon hit 62 below zero Saturday, which ties a record low of that temperature set in 1909. Bettles, Alaska hit sixty below, which exceeds their low set in 1989. On Facebook, the chatter confirms the frigid temperatures and issues associated with it. John Orrison, of [...]
Cyber crime is on the rise in the Northwest, since the start of the year, Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington is wary of the increasing amount of complaints about the presence of scammers taking advantage of the internet to lure consumers looking and desiring to purchase puppies online. The modus operandi is [...]
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 [...]
Paula Dean Diet and U.S. National Debt Need Diet and Debt Programs Paul Dean and our national leaders share one trait. They both have yet to develop the will power to make astounding changes in their lives. Paul Dean was reportedly “caught” chowing down on a cheeseburger, while a major number of our congress members [...]
Attorney at Law Geoffrey Y. Parker and Thomas E. Meacham, Anchorage, appeared in Supreme Court representing several tribal entities, and Daniel S. Sullivan, Attorney General, Juneau, representing the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Tom Irwin, Commissioner of Natural Resources in a lands case involving the Bristol Bay. Legal action filed by [...]
A public health program at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Section of Epidemiology; the Environmental Public Health Program cautions the public about the possible health problems brought by sulfolane exposure from the wells of the North Pole area. Sulfolane is an industrial solvent that was found in wells near the North Pole Flint Hills [...]
Energy management in your home gone out the window? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with its Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is offering more than $863 million of financial aid to low-income families who are having heating and other energy cost problems. Alaska has programs from this source. The [...]
Paula Deen and most of the foodie gurus today apparently have missed the paradigm shift in health eating consciousness that has been occurring in the past few years. One article written since the famous chef has come out about her recent diabetes 2 diagnosis tried to “fat down” some of her famous recipes. Like putting [...]