Continue Reading ... Continue Reading ...A postage stamp on a football field. Really? Yes!
— February 12, 2015Forget 10 Years–Drilling ANWR Would Pay Off Right Away
— February 12, 2015The fragile economy, high unemployment, and national debt are major concerns for many Americans across the country. While President Obama is campaigning on another so-called stimulus plan that will raise taxes on American families and job creators, he’s ignoring one of the best solutions to these problems—increased American energy production through drilling in the Arctic…
Continue Reading ...Picture this… the real ANWR
— February 12, 2015Forwarded Email about the Drilling for Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Summary of the eRumor: A message that includes pictures and graphics about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. It says that the controversial portion of ANWAR where oil drilling could take place is desolate and not reflected by the pretty pictures…
Continue Reading ...What Would Environmentalists Do If They Owned ANWR?
— February 12, 2015Consider the costs and benefits to things like drilling for oil, for one. The debate over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reemerged last week as the Obama administration announced new protections for the vast, oil-rich Alaskan landscape. The Department of Interior is placing the 30,000 square mile ANWR off-limits to drilling, and the president wants…
Continue Reading ...Stop The Overreach
— February 12, 2015Related stories: Game Changer on the Yukon (Video) Game Changer on the Yukon-The John Sturgeon Story
Continue Reading ...Dan Sullivan on ANWR….”WTF?”
— January 26, 2015Original article written by Jenny Jiang on Monday, January 26, 2015 · for WhatTheFolly.com Transcript: Sen. Dan Sullivan’s remarks on the Obama administration’s actions to ban oil drilling in ANWR Partial transcript of Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R-Alaska) press briefing remarks on the Obama administration’s decision to seek wilderness designation for nearly all of the…
Continue Reading ...Murkowski on ANWR… “We’re getting screwed”
— January 26, 2015Murkowski’s primal scream on ANWR points to Alaska’s precarious balance Alaska’s Sen. Lisa Murkowski is livid over President Obama’s move to ban oil development of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). To her, it betrays the promise America made to Alaska in statehood. Washington — On Monday, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski again gave…
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Get Out and Vote Don Young
— October 25, 201810 years after, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito makes his case
— February 16, 2016The Supreme Court had brought before it an issue on a federal ban on hovercraft inside national parks, and Justice Samuel Alito seemed in a huff. Regardless of special concessions that apply to Alaska, an appeals court upheld the hovercraft ban there, which it extended beyond the federal land to include land the government doesn’t own. The court’s justification didn’t make…
Alaska Turf Wars-Frontiers
— February 2, 2016Since statehood battles on who controls Alaska’s land and the waters have existed. Watch this video news story produced by Anchorage’s KTVA 11 for their Frontiers with Ronda McBride news program for the the full story on why a moose hunter in Alaska has taken his case all the way the the US Supreme Court….
Game Changer on the Yukon-The John Sturgeon Story (Video)
— November 2, 2015John Sturgeon is a 46 year resident of Alaska. He has worked in Alaska’s forest products industry during that time. He is active in his community serving on several boards including the John Sturgeon is a 46 year resident of Alaska. He has worked in Alaska’s forest products industry during that time. He is active…
A Constitutional Right to Hovercraft?
— October 31, 2015The U.S. Supreme Court considers an odd case from Alaska, with the fraught question of federal management of Western lands hovering in the background. “Raisins are not wild animals even when they are dancing,” Michael McConnell told the U.S. Supreme Court last term, thereby winning the first annual Epps Award for Coolest Argument Line of…
Game Changer on the Yukon
— October 31, 2015My grandfather moved from Washington to Alaska in 1940 to work, hunt and play in an environment that he felt was a better, safer, healthier and more enjoyable place to raise his family. He died in 1977, three years before President Carter doubled the size of the country’s national park and refuge system and tripled…
Forget 10 Years–Drilling ANWR Would Pay Off Right Away
— February 12, 2015The fragile economy, high unemployment, and national debt are major concerns for many Americans across the country. While President Obama is campaigning on another so-called stimulus plan that will raise taxes on American families and job creators, he’s ignoring one of the best solutions to these problems—increased American energy production through drilling in the Arctic…