And, how ONE Spec Ed Bully can menace a learning community Alaska Public Education is in crisis. Management cannot protect teachers and as more parents abandon the Education Factory Model students at the lower economic strata of society will suffer. This is because government education in Alaska is little more than a money pit for …
Today’s Solution is NOT Drugs, Drugs, Drugs… Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to any Alaskan is to be accused of having mental illness and dealing with the associated system for that affliction. Our crazy courts and institutions dedicated to supposedly helping people with mental illness are hopelessly stuck in an antiquated model of …
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The Mask Mandate was ALWAYS a hoax People who live in and around Seattle have good reasons for wanting to fly Seattle Airlines: Violent crimes and car thefts around Seattle in 2022 were the highest they’ve been in 15 years. That’s among a handful of takeaways from the Seattle Police Department’s report on crime statistics for …
…it’s not just for “Drop-outs.” Update of story first published March 14, 2016 NorthernRight.com As Alaska Legislators debate how much Protection Money they will again award the Union Cartel that throttles our failing government education factories, perhaps Alaskans should accept what many intelligent parents have learned: The GED is set at 12th grade and students …
This is a terrible time to have a case before the Alaska Court System for anyone like this writer, who has no confidence in the possibility of justice. It’s a part-time court (Mon-Thu) run by judges who are protected from accountability by the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct–whose Executive Director Marla N. Greenstein is currently …
No Justice, No Peace: Our Court System is Corrupt! Read More »
No More Excuses for Dan Saddler March 23, 2023 update on story first appearing October 26, 2017ECHO Magazine title: Dan Saddler on Kicking Crime in the District What can voters expect from electing re-tread legislators who were not very effective in the past? To answer this question watch House Majority Leader, Dan Saddler in the …
Approved by Legislative Affairs Agency Updated reflection previously published May 1, 2018, ECHO Magazinealso, Senior Voice: https://www.seniorvoicealaska.com/story/2018/05/01/columns/legislative-skits-skewer-but-too-selectively/1675.html Easter was on April Fool’s Day this year and Good Friday was chosen as a great time to feature the Annual Legislative Skits. They began decades ago as a fundraiser for the Democratic Party. The show, which features staff …
What YOU Need to Know about how the Alaska Legislature Works Updated from story First Published July 19, 2018 in ECHO Magazine A statute of US Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln, William Seward and another statue of a Russian Bear eating a salmon grace the plaza in front of the Alaska Capital.[1]. After …
Previously published in Echo Magazine January 25, 2018 Donn Liston confronts Senator Rodey Few Alaskans bother to visit our state capital city where elected officials pass laws and conduct state business. There is good reason for this. Being a product of Southcentral Alaska myself, as a young man I wondered about what Juneau was like, and …
Adventures in Juneau–You cannot know how Alaska’s Capital works without going there. Read More »
Hugh Malone’s Permanent Fund Legacy Hugh Malone was Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives when the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend was designed to protect Alaska resource wealth from being pissed away by politicians. The dividend gives all Alaskans a stake in the fund’s future by spending levels set by averaging 5-year earnings. As we …
