Comments by commonsnipe
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Posted on June 14 at 7:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Some people just want a king. Less responsibility that way. More power in the executive branch = king. A few countrys still have those, Jordan for example. Have a passport?
Posted on May 28 at 9:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I love(?) chasing moose out of my garden in the morning...noon...night. I love the energy and self determination that we have here. I love the spring green leaves. I love to look out onto the wilderness that doesn't seem to end. I like it like I like my women: wild, beautiful, and vast!(uh..sorry honey).
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Posted on May 28 at 9:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Thanks for the positive and forward looking insight. I agree with your observation that bike paths often prove to be dangerous when separate from the road. That being said they still get used quite a lot by people other than cyclists. Perhaps there is a need for both. Bicycle lanes along the shoulder of a road are probably the most cost effective way to address cycling needs. Bicycle and motorcycle usage will be increasing and we should acommodate that in driving habits and in road design. Fairbanks isn't an outpost anymore so we ought to start making it how we want it to be by accomodating the needs of an active public. Its our town so lets make the very best of it. I'm sure it will pay off in the end.
Posted on May 24 at 9:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think we are just seeing the painful reality that we need to curb our consumption. We need a leaner model for living, and we will get it with or without ANWR. The price of oil is finally goading our lazy butts into change and that always hurts. I doubt that the small boon from ANWR oil will change the global picture. For Alaska it would be a good short term shot in the arm and continue with some economic benefit after initial production. But we would be in the same state we are in now: little local processing and beholden to the producers. Resource extraction has its limits and I think we are running up against them. More oil production development is really a short term solution without further development in processing and re-investment in our state. Think Norway, not Brazil in our model of the future use of natural resources. We aren't an outpost anymore.
Posted on May 14 at 8:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"Bike" paths are statistically more dangerous than paths designated for bicycles on the side of a road. The bike paths here are perforated with driveways and feeder streets. Although most stop signs, when they exist, are placed before the path, few cars stop there. They pull out to the road where they stop to look. Additionally the bike paths are not maintained very well and have a variety of trafic on them from baby strollers to 4 wheelers. They are frequently in poor repair. They often take circuitous routes away from the direct path that the road takes. They are nice for recreational cyclists riding at about 10mph or less. A widened shoulder with a designated bike lane is better for bicycles and cheaper to build and easier to maintain. They help in giving percieved legitimacy to the already existing road rights that cyclists have. Bikes are here to stay and they are vulnerable, even the stupid ones that make you anygry in your car (they make me mad too). Cyclists belong and are your neighbors friends and children, please be careful.
Posted on April 13 at 8:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What's wrong with using just plain old grass in the roundabout?
Posted on March 29 at 9:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
My support is for the Village of Fort Yukon, they know what to do. Polar bears are far more aggressive than other bears by nature. Who knows why it came that far. Perhaps things are changing so much for the bears that this is what they do, adapt. 3 miles is very little distance for a bear of any type, effortless. The bear was essentially still in the village. This was a substantial risk to people there. What were they to do? They could only act or react to this threat. They are not fools, they acted.
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Posted on March 25 at 8:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They always bolt after they get their 5 years in. No suprise, but does it work? UAF has grown, but also gotten much more expensive. Tough job no doubt.
Posted on March 21 at 10:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Chelly, I don't think you grasped the point of my post, flawed as it may be. Point being that people now, RIGHT NOW, are having their homes property and lives violated in the name of supressing drugs, but we will not hear or see anything about it most of the time. Drug busts are glossed over with simplified headlines like: Suspect arrested for suspected marijuana production. What we don't see is that there were National Gaurd soldiers and heavily armed and armored police officers raiding these "suspects" with military style assault tactics. I know they don't make a distinction between the dangerous drug producers (and some are very dangerous) and some guy growning a little too much pot, but shouldn't they? This kind of thing leads to stronger stuff, and I'm talking about government raids not the catch phrase for the anti-pot lobby. If they can raid suspects and cow them into submission with the threat of a prolonged prosecution (and the fear of further destructive and aggressive raids) then why not apply the same "successful" tactics elsewhere where careful lawmaking has failed to produce results. The State giving in to Federal law is just that, a ceding of sovereignty and an acceptance of this behaviour. Just give in, it will be easier on all of us. Right?
(P.S. of course police should protect themselves, this is not anti police)
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Posted on June 17 at 4:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow, so many still rooting for Bush. Have you no shame? Do you only listen to talk radio? Republicans had all the cards for the last 7 years: Executive, Congress, and the courts!! AND THEY STILL SCREWED IT UP. I was hoping for change from them honestly, though a Democrat commie liberal. I have faith in our system and thought "well maybe with a majority in EVERY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT they will change things to reflect the good qualities of conservatism and Republican philosophy." But it didn't happen. That is the shame, and the record. Yet some still want more...wow. By the way, we have one tough Constitution, it can take a licking and still hold us together no matter how reluctant we are to adhere to it.
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