Comments by bozoboy
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Posted on May 8 at 3:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The SAME Tired Arguments against anything that requires public money.
I envision a team of curmudgeons--scouring the letters to the editor for anything that might be for the good of the community but might cost any kind of public money, and when found the alarm sounds!!! My guess is that each of the above complainers has his or her own area that he or she uses. So one uses the public parks, one uses the Carlson Center, one uses the shooting range, one uses the Big Dipper, one uses the recreation areas and boat launches. etc. The rest of the complainers probably either work for a government entity (borough, state, city, UAF, army, airforce, Statewide UA system, school district) or draw financial benefit by being contracted by one of these agencies... for example joe six pack complains about taxes but makes 50,000 a year being contracted by the army or DOT or whatever. Or sells products making profits to the many government employees in this community. There is so much hypocrisy in this town--why is it that anytime someone suggests an improvement in our community everyone freaks out that their taxes might go up! I think such a multi-use facility is long overdue. I ski and snow machine and skate and I enjoy winter. But I would still love to play some full sized softball, some football, and some Frisbee when it's pitch dark and 45 below. Have you people ever thought about thinking big and doing something that makes your community stand out rather than complain about the potential minor financial impact on you? get a life.
Posted on May 1 at 11:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Check out www.thealaskadome.com to see the benefits and the dimensions
On Dome needed
Posted on April 30 at 4:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Clearly the letter writer has hit a chord. He does not suggest that the government should pay for the entire dome or its operation. He suggests we have some vision as a community and figure out a way to get private and public sectors together to get at minimum some synthetic surfaces put down that could be used in march or april and into october. How many of the nay sayers have been in the dome in Anchorage. Check it out some time. We don't NEED the Carlson Center. We don't NEED the Big Dipper. We don't NEED the Noel Wien Libary. We don't NEED Pioneer Park, growden park, shooting range, boat landings, yada yada yada, BUT our QUALITY of life would be greatly improved with such a facility and we might be a better community for it.
On Dome needed
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Posted on May 9 at 9:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
think about it this way... average certified union plummer in fairbanks gets paid around $80,000 per year with great pension and health care...average certified union teacher get's $48,000 per year with average pension and OK health care.... so we as a society value two things that start with "S" differently... hint the one worth more is NOT "Student."
On Teachers union, school district suspend contract talks