Comments by lakloey1
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Posted on August 24 at 7:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No on 4! No reason to throw out the baby with the bath water. The no to Pebble people need to narrow their focus.
Posted on August 24 at 6:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
There are plenty of jobs out there for the youth. Trouble is they don't want to work or they want starting pay over $15/hr. Many will take a job but not show up every day.
On Men needed
Posted on August 24 at 6:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If prop 1 becomes law Darwin will stand to make a lot of money. He will only have to share it with the state and the owners of the video poker machines. Don't be fooled there is plenty of oversight in gaming. CHARR and it's many bar owners stand to scoop the funds from charitable gaming away from the charities. The bar business is in a slump due to the strict DUI laws. This is an attempt to take the profits away from the nonprofit organizations that make most or all of their money from gaming. It’s just a different approach to the last few times they tried to change gaming. But it will have the same effect.
Posted on August 23 at 5:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Knowles, Sturgulewski, and Whittaker can all be wrong most if not all the time.
Posted on August 23 at 5:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
OK You are wrong Henry! The borough collects all the sin taxes for the sale of alcohol and tobacco. There must be a lot of sinners because the article says it 300,000.00 a year. As for the city needing to grow, why don’t they just leave us who don’t live in the city alone and concentrate on their downtown Vision?
I loved the line about good road maintenance. What does that mean? Plow the road once a year? I think there are some in the city that want to have a municipality like Anchorage where the outlying areas support the cultural center. Maybe it’s time for Fairbanks to become a service area in the borough.
Posted on August 23 at 3:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Please Larry remember that our form of government is not a democracy. We are a republic. And this bill doesn't have limits. As long as the public funded candidate is being out spent by his non public funded rival. And yes that's right this will not require all candidates to be financed by the state. Just like Obama decided to flip and forego public financing so can the state candidates. So this will not stop those who wish to get their funding the old fashion way but it will finance those who can't raise the money to beat them in the real world. Sounds like democrat candidate welfare to me.
Posted on August 23 at 10:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No No No No.....how easy is that?
Posted on August 23 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If the gaming laws are changed at proposed the nonprofits that now benefit from it will be cut out. They will have to resort begging the government for handouts. Why not leave gaming as it is? Thousands of non profits depend on it for all or some of their funding. Don't get me wrong, some of the nonprofits are not exactly charities. But there are many who are deserving of this funding.
Posted on August 23 at 7:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is pretty much democrat political candidate welfare. Their support from unions must be waning. It will lead to the state paying for the campaigns of people who have little or no public support.
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Posted on August 25 at 5:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No 0n 1.
On Alaska voters to make decision on gambling measure