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Posted on July 2 at 6:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
cooberblues, I thought about an online poll, too. How to ensure that only city residents have a vote - since they'd be the ones footing the bill? How to ensure that 1 person only gets one vote, not 100?
alaskanflower, I see the ambiguity, too. In one dnm article, the city's trying to think of ways to bend over backwards to save energy $$$. Then a day or two later, an article about the city being able to afford xmas lights just fine, thank you very much.
A consistent message would be real nice.
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Posted on July 2 at 1:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm on your side, Ms. Mayor, but I'm afraid this one issue is going to haunt you for some time. It's possibly a lose-lose situation for you at this point. It might be worth investing in some damage control now.
Lots of good opinions coming out in this thread, both pro and con.
I’ll throw my two cents in:
Pro: Accept the lights, and word will reach Juneau. This will reinforce to our state legislature that our economy up here is really hurting from energy costs, and it might help embarrass Juneau into coming up with solutions that much more quickly. Myself, as far as help from Juneau is concerned, I’m hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. It seems like the only sane option.
Con: Don’t accept the lights. While they use substantially less electricity, they still use electricity. And as much as Christmas, holiday, whatever lighting cheers me and others during our cold, dark winters . . . if it came down to a choice between festive lights and street lighting, I’d rather have the street lights, for safety reasons.
Neither: Figure out a *cheap* way that city residents can vote on this issue. Simple majority wins.
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Posted on July 1 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The proverbial s--t has finally reached the fan, and we're all equally getting smacked in the face by it. Big time.
glacierless, gopking, corinne, etc., you're all against citizens whining about government handouts. And in my most objective reasoning, you have every grounds to do so. The more we expect handouts, the less reliant we become on our own abilities to take care of ourselves. That's just plain human nature, that has proven itself over and over again for the last few centuries of our planetary history.
I'm a liberal, a tree-hugging greenie, but even that lesson isn't lost on me. Nor on others like me, I suppose.
newsreader, me, and whoever else, we've got to really listen to people who aren't automatically inclined to agree with us. It's in our best interests to do so - *and* it's in their best interests to hear us out. But when our state constitution promises the right for all us citizens to share in its bounty, by God
. . . State of Alaska . . . fork up the goods already. Haven't we suffered enough already?
We're all in this together, and it's really going to take all of us, combined, to figure out the best way forward.
Personally, I don't want to shout anybody out of a discussion as important as this.
Remember, it'll take all of us, all of our input, to see us through this, this crisis that engulfs us on a planetary level. In my very soul, I have absolutely no doubt that we're dealing with now is of monumental importance to both us, individually, and us, as a civilization.
Left-wingers, right-wingers, in-between-wingers, anti-partisan wingers - let your voices be heard. And let the rest of us not denigrate what you choose to say.
I think that all of us have a partial solution. But, we'll only reach a real solution for us, as a whole, if we act as a whole.
This partisan bickering back on forth that I've been reading on the newsminer lately is killing me inside.
Stop it! Friggin' stop it, already!!! It isn't solving anything at all. And what we have to deal with, collectively, is far, *far* too important to denigrate into who's political/economic perspective is right, and who's is wrong.
What's facing us now is ***far*** too important than that.
Let's have a real discussion among equals, shall we?
If not, we'll certainly face the consequences.
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Posted on July 1 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I swore I wouldn't post anymore, but here I am. Again.
Rush hour on the NYC subway trains. People show their truest colors when under duress. That's what rush-hour at 5 pm taught me years ago. Between 5 and 6 pm, on NYC subways, you'll see people acting at their lowliest common denominator. *Everyone's* had a long day. *Everyone* wants a place to park their butts after a long day at the job, and on the long, timely commute home. Grown, healthy men will run down pregnant women just to get a seat, a place to park their butts. Problem is, there's only a limited number of seats. You get to sit down, and take a load off for your 1-2 hour commute home, or you get to fight for your chance to do so at every next subway stop, when more passengers leave the train than come on it. Or so you hope.
We, in Alaska, are facing similar circumstances. Yes, the underlying reasons are drastically different, but the human behavior it inspires is all too sadly, similar.
We find ourselves, as Americans, competing for supply, for resources that have only recently been in demand in developing nations, i.e. China, and India.
Go to NYC on any day of the work week, and watch how people *really* behave when resources are scarce, a prime example being the availability of subway seats during the rush hour home.
We're vicious. Vicious, vicious creatures, when it comes down to it. From all the various comments I've read on this newsminer website over the last few months, we Fairbanksans, we Alaskans, aren't too far away from a NYC commuter trying to park his or her butt on the train ride home. We've demonstrated that we can be ruthless. Nothing less than ruthless.
No blame there, mind you. Ya gotta do what it takes to ensure that you can do again tomorrow what you've accomplished today. But remember, it's all a choice.
I moved here almost 20 years ago because it was *so* not in my life plan to treat other humans ruthlessly.
And now, here in Alaska, it seems to me that the proverbial issue of finding a seat at rush-hour is being revisited all over again, but in an entirely different region, under an entirely different context.
An incredibly wise friend of mine once said that, "if we all don't make it, in a way, none of us makes it." His words ring no truer than here on this newsminer website.
People . . .
People of Fairbanks, of Alaska . . .
People of America, of all across the globe . . .
What we're facing now . . .
We're all in this together, like it or not.
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Posted on June 26 at 12:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is the second time within a week's period that I simply can't believe the crap the news miner's editorials is supporting. I've never felt like this before about the DNM. Did you guys just have a major change in staffing? Phew, *bad* decisions on your part. I'm getting to the point where I don't even want to read hard copies or online versions of this newspaper anymore.
Within this past week, the news miner has demonstrated that this newspaper blatantly supports Big Oil. And blatantly supports the killing of polar bears for sport. Just how more out of touch can you get? You guys court the readership of folks like roofman and darkhorse who don't have a problem at all with killing a threatened species just for sport? Folks that would denigrate people like me as "bunny huggers" for believing that gun-toting, trigger-happy men *aren't* the best judges of what should happen in nature?
News miner, your readership has just dropped by one. Me.
Not reading the crap you've been putting out lately is the only way I can object to the crap you've been putting out lately.
Adios.
Posted on June 26 at 12:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
polarmark, don't be so presumptuous as to compare yourself and like-minded individuals to neanderthals. I'm sure that whatever hunting they did was for subsistence or self-defense only. I'm sure that they pretty much didn't have time for anything else than survival.
People like you could give a rat's toutie faloutie about Native cultures, except when doing so promotes your own agenda.
Killing a threatened or endangered species for sport is just plain merciless. Why can't you see that? Why won't you acknowledge that? Why won't hunters like you just simply admit to the fact that sometimes it's just plainly wrong to kill? A loaded gun puts ultimate power in your hands, but it certainly doesn't give you the ultimate right, justification, in using it.
Posted on June 23 at 11:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ouch.
Not only does the Interior have an energy crisis on it's hands, it looks like there might be a food crisis too, for people living a subsistence lifestyle.
I don't know much about fisheries, but aren't there also commercial and sports fishing? Why weren't these mentioned in the article? Will they be restricted, too?
Posted on June 23 at 9:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Couldn't tell you there, princess, but you could try calling the city clerk's office and asking. I'd be interested to find out who they are, too.
Posted on June 23 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Kids these days, they don't listen, do they? :)
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Posted on July 6 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
glacierless, I'm appreciating your perspective on things more and more over time. I thought I never would have said this 2, 3 months ago.
I think what this editorial points out, really, is that money talks. Everything else, including our values and beliefs, just sort of kinda walks. We're feeling it hard in our wallets and pocketbooks. Our values are changing in hopes that by doing so, we'll somehow alleviate the pinch, the Big Squeeze.
That said, I think Ken Woods has a point. I think ultimately what he's saying is that Americans are missing the point, missing the bigger picture - the "7th generation" perspective, which is one that considers how our great (x5) grandchildren will view our actions today.
We've been needing to make profound changes in our lives, lifestyles, culture, values, etc., for years now. The writing's been on the wall for decades. The time to change is now. As a whole, as a nation, we're resisting those changes, tooth and nail. Yes, let's open up ANWR and offshore drilling so we can try to maintain our supply of oil, and continue *not* to challenge the illusion of affluence to which we've become accustomed. In truth, I feel that the supply of oil and ANWR and additional offshore drilling can provide absolutely pales in comparison to our levels of consumption as a nation. Drilling in ANWR and offshore will help, sure. But not much at all, comparatively speaking, and not for long. If we do nothing more than that, we'll find ourselves in this exact same predicament all too soon.
We need to change, as individuals, as a nation. Like it or not, that time is now. And if we do so now, then we're honoring the tradition inherent in the 7th generation perspective. This change is the greatest challenge of our generation. We owe it to future ones to squarely meet that challenge.
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