Comments by joy_Fairbanks
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Posted on August 31 at 8:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Stalkexpress, here's some information you probably didn't see on youtube. Troopers investigated 13 issues and found four in which Wooten violated policy or broke the law or both:
• Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would "eat a f'ing lead bullet" if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.
...and he still kept his job thanks to the union "protecting their own."
Wooten also has been married & divorced four times.
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Posted on August 20 at 1:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Is the FNSB air quality division going to be going door to door brandishing their guns to shut our wood stoves down to those of us who can't afford burning our oil boilers with #2 diesel at over $4 a gallon?
No AKHusky, we've given up on relief from the State as Anchorage legislators couldn't give a damn about how much we've paying since they enjoy clean burning natural gas @ a greatly subsidized rate. I too, like to breathe healthy air but when it comes to the choice of living or freezing to death, you damn right I'll be burning my wood stove.
When you're at it have the Federal Government issue more exclusive water rights to Alaska's rivers to outside companies who have no interest in providing lower power costs but whose only interest is greed.
Posted on August 18 at 1:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Move the borough bus depot or are you going to tear it down and rebuild? After spending how many millions of taxpayers dollars to build and remodel it a few years ago, it doesn't fit it with your grandiose plans of revitalizing the downtown area? Seems like the city and borough governments have no problem wasting other people's money and hopefully we'll replace them with more conservative members in the coming elections.
Posted on August 12 at 1:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Gov. Palin, how about starting an investigation into why Anchorage gets natural gas from the Cook Inlet gas fields at a subsidized price to provide them cheap heating and electric costs and we in Fairbanks, the Interior and rural Alaska can't receive the same subsidy on royalty oil from a pipeline that runs through our backyard?
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Posted on August 12 at 2:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Not surprised with the uncontrolled, always increasing spending of our borough budget; you have no concept of money when you are spending other peoples money. Obama co-sponsored the Global Poverty Act which would increase the already billions of dollars spent on foreign poverty by an additional $845 BILLION dollars and plans to implement a national health care system which will increase our taxes. Hey, Mayor Whitaker, you also speak with a forked tongue like Obama, have you pursued legal action against the State yet regarding the unconstitutionality of Anchorage paying less than Henry Hub price for Cook Inlet gas?
Posted on August 5 at 9:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Onapa, don't want to make it tit for tat like a lot of the comments but I'm a life-long Alaskan and I've lived in Fairbanks for over 40 years. As for knowing the difference between living costs between here and Anchorage, have known Anchorage has had lower costs but didn't know the reason was, was that the State of Alaska was subsidizing them at our costs. And as for picking my next hometown, this is my hometown. Your wind energy solution makes as much sense as Barak Obama's solution to the energy crisis: inflate your tires. Anyone with any brains knows wind and solar energy is not only not feasible in most of Alaska but cost prohibitive.
Posted on August 5 at 8:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Onapa, don't know what "people" you are talking about; certainly not me re: People accept the differences in the cost of living between rural Alaska, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. The proposed plan makes more sense than sending out a full rebate as we won't be paying 1/3 of it in Federal taxes but needs to be tweaked to bring the $3.00/gallon to a more equitable cost of heating oil vs. natural gas. As I said before, it is unconstitutional for Anchorage to be provided with low cost natural gas and if just a rebate is sent out to everyone, hopefully a class action lawsuit will be filed.
Posted on August 5 at 7:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sorry, that should be "we will be paying $3.00/gallon for heating oil and Anchorage costs for the same btu's will be $.42."
Posted on August 5 at 7:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ulises Gonzalez - apparently you haven't paid much attention as to why we "are nothing but a Socialist State with an endless roll of whiners, me first and generally people who can best be described as sheeple and cannot or will not look beyond their own selfish needs." Perhaps you ought to study the State of Alaska constitution and see how the Federal Government owns 65% of lands in Alaska and we individual property owners do not own mineral rights like all other States.
Also if you'd read Fairbanksgas' comment above, see how much Anchorage pays for its heating and electric costs which are 1/3 of more less than the cost of the rest of Alaska. Anchorage has been provided with natural gas out of the Cook Inlet area for 50 or so years at a greatly subsidized rate. Since Alaska's resources belongs to ALL Alaskans, this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and that is why we are a bunch of whiners. Hopefully, a class action lawsuit will be filed so an equitable energy cost can be implemented as you can see with this "new" plan, we will be paying $3.00/gallon for heating oil and Anchorage costs for the same btu's will be $.25 a gallon. Thank you Fairbanksgas for all your information. Whining, you betcha I am.
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Posted on September 5 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"It's over. It's over. It's over for the special interests," McCain promised. Does that include enforcing the current immigration laws instead of selling out America to all the big businesses who hire illegal immigrants at below minimum wage putting legal citizens out of work? Does "special interest" include giving amnesty to 20-30 million illegal immigrants?
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