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Open Meetings group cancels next meeting due to new city limitations on gatherings

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The new group called Alaskans for Open Meetings has had to cancel its Tuesday meeting due to the new emergency order from the acting mayor of Anchorage.

Due to the new meeting limits put in place by Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson, the Nov. 10 meeting at Gwennie’s Restaurant in Anchorage was cancelled to protect the restaurant owner from harassment by code enforcers.

Quinn-Davidson has set new emergency rules prohibiting gatherings of more than 15 inside, when no food or beverages are being served, or 10 when food and beverages are being served. This is to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, which is now spiking in Alaska.

The group has filed a lawsuit against the Anchorage Assembly for breaking the open meetings laws for several weeks this summer, when the Assembly locked the public out of meetings.

The board of the Alaskans for Open Meetings organization will still be meeting on Tuesday to consider its next move. More about the lawsuit and the organization is at AlaskansforOpenMeetings.com.

The lost year: No school for Anchorage due to COVID spread

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The Anchorage School Superintendent had hoped to have K-2 students back in the classroom starting Nov. 16. But that is not to be.

In a note to parents and the community, Superintendent Deena Bishop said the district will postpone in-class learning. The number of diagnosed cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Alaska and schools in Anchorage have been closed since mid-March.

The superintendent’s letter:

Dear ASD families and community,

Based on the increasing community spread of the virus and the rising demand placed on the Anchorage medical community, I am announcing this evening that the Anchorage School District will not resume in-person learning for Pre-K through grade 2, self-contained special education classrooms, or Whaley School on November 16.

The conditions across Anchorage are currently threatening to push the community’s medical capacity beyond its limits, as reflected on our COVID-19 decision monitoring. Additionally, the increasing number of close contacts has the potential to significantly reduce ASD’s ability to staff schools with predictability. Delaying in-person learning has been a heartbreaking decision, as we all have become aware that the best way to ensure we educate all children for success in life includes in-person learning.

ASD remains steadfast on getting its students back into schools and will continue its plans to do so when conditions allow. More details about the status of in-person learning for all levels of students and information about additional support services will be shared on November 15. Families in need of services are encouraged to call the District’s help line, 907-742-HELP. Help line staff are available to refer those in need to resources for food insecurities, technical assistance, and mental health resources.

In the meantime, please wear masks in public, practice good hygiene, and follow the Municipal and State health mandates. If everyone does their part in reducing the spread of the virus, the community will be on its way to getting students and staff back into the classroom where they love to be.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Anchorage has ordered all children in school to wear masks, but at this time the only children who are in school are attending private schools.

What? Fairbanks remote classes are closed Monday due to snow, road conditions

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One of the benefits of online learning from the comfort of your home is that your student doesn’t have to slog through the snow to catch the school bus. No matter what winter may bring, your youngster can just keep on learning, via the computer and associated technology.

Not so fast.

A notice from Fairbanks School Superintendent Karen Gaborik, issued at 6:05 pm on Sunday, says all remote classes are cancelled Monday, due to weather. Here’s the official word on the matter:

“Due to the winter storm warning which is predicting more snow, freezing rain, dangerous road conditions, and power outages, ALL remote district classes and in-school sessions are CANCELLED for Monday, November 9, 2020.”  

“As of now, school and classes are expected to resume Tuesday, November 10. Additional communication will be sent if this changes.”

Fagan: It’s time to call evil, evil again

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Former President Ronald Reagan spoke with great authority in West Germany in 1987 when he demanded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the very symbol of 20th Century Communist death and oppression. 

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” demanded Reagan. 

Two years later, the Berlin Wall crumbled under the force of liberated and united Germans.  

Four years prior, Reagan had dubbed the Communist-run Soviet Union as the “evil empire.” He described the U.S.S.R. as “the focus of evil in the modern world.” 

We don’t hear the word evil much anymore from conservatives. 

The Bible warns of a time when many will call evil good and good evil.

Communist-run China is currently every bit as evil as the former Soviet Union. China has forced countless mothers to involuntarily succumb to the cold steely hands of murderous abortionists ending the life of their babies. Imagine the grief, pain, and heartache of living in a country that targets your child for execution. 

China has since amended its one-child policy forcing abortions to allow for a second baby, but not a third. But back in 2011, the one-child policy was still in place. 

It was 2011 when then-Vice-President Joe Biden spoke at Sichuan University in China. In reference to the one-child forced abortion policy, he told Chinese college students: 

“As I was talking with some of your leaders, you share a similar concern. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one of which I fully understand. I’m not second-guessing of one child per family,” said Biden.  

Most Americans would agree forcing a mother to abort her child is evil. Apparently not the man poised to be our next president. 

Biden has moved even more pro-abortion recently as he worked to secure the nomination of the party of death. His Left-wing base will tolerate nothing less.  

Biden says he now opposes the Hyde Amendment, a 40-year-old measure prohibiting the use of federal taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions. 

Sixty percent of Americans favor the Hyde Amendment and Biden did once too. Biden justified his flip flop on forcing Americans to pay for abortions by saying “circumstances have changed.” 

What’s changed is the Democrat Party has become increasingly pro-death. 

And then there’s Biden’s chosen running mate, Kamala Harris. Harris has voted against every pro-life bill she’s had before her.

The National Review described her as “without question the most radically pro-abortion candidate to run for president or vice president in the history of our country.” 

As California Attorney General, Harris targeted pro-life activists conducting a sting catching Planned Parenthood on tape in a ghoulish scheme to sell body parts from aborted babies.

Harris is so pro-death culture she ignored the evil Planned Parenthood body part peddlers and instead went after the activists who caught them on tape. 

Earlier this year, Harris and every Senate Democrat filibustered the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill would have required doctors to give the same degree of health care to newborns who survive abortions as any other child born alive.

In half the states, doctors are not required to provide health care for babies who survive their planned execution at the hands of a cold-hearted abortionist. 

With that filibuster, Harris is now on record as favoring infanticide. 

In 2019, Democrats established themselves as the party of death when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law allowing abortion up to the moment of birth and even after the child is viable and able to live on their own. 

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam also supported legislation in his state allowing for infanticide. In what can only be described as the most chilling words ever to come out of an American politician’s mouth, Northam said this in defense of ending the life of a baby after they survived an abortion: 

“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” 

What Northam was literally calling for was keeping the baby alive on the medical table after he or she was born while a decision was made whether to let the baby die. Only the hardest of hearts would see that as anything other than evil.  

Many of the 70 plus million voting for Biden and Harris may not realize they’ve potentially put in the White House two of the most morally depraved candidates in U.S. history.

Most Democrats voted for Biden/Harris more out of a deep disdain and hatred of President Donald Trump than anything else. Trump is the most pro-life president we’ve ever had, and that’s why he’s so hated by so many. 

Too many Americans have seared their conscience when it comes to the genocide of American babies enabled by the Democrat Party. 

Democrats were the key defenders of slavery, segregation, the KKK, and now they are the party that’s the guardian of the death culture in America. 

The 2020 presidential election was not a fight between conservative or liberal, left or right, Democrat or Republican. It was a battle between good and evil. 

It’s time to call evil, evil again. 

Dan Fagan hosts the number one rated morning drive radio show in Alaska weekdays on Newsradio 650 KENI. Dan splits his time between Anchorage and New Orleans.   

Hardy group continues waving flags for Trump

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For several weekends in a row this fall, a hardy group of Alaskans have stood at the corner of Northern Lights Blvd. and New Seward Highway, waving flags for Donald Trump and American flags and waving at passersby.

It’s wintery weather in Anchorage, but about 25 cheerful souls took to the same corner on Sunday, Nov. 8, six days after the election. They are the undeterred.

This time, there were a couple of signs added to the flag mix that advised “Stop the Steal” and “Count All Legal Votes.”

The group is a collection of people not normally involved in party politics, and from various ethnic backgrounds, old and young, bundled against the snowy day. One woman built a snowman as others waved signs and cars honked in approval of the die-hard group.

The rally participants were among the 71 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, none of whom subsequently rioted or burned cars and destroyed businesses since the election, in spite of the dubious outcomes from some states.

They are the people who Michelle Obama said yesterday were “supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.” And they were about as happy as a bunch of people could be on a snowy, gloomy post-election day in Anchorage.

Stolen? Kennedy election is still debated to this day

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Sixty years ago on Nov. 8, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. The Democrat went up against then-Vice President Richard Nixon and the outcome, to this day, is still debated by historians. Some still say it was “stolen fair and square” by ballot box stuffing in key states.

In the Electoral College, Kennedy won 303 to 219. But in the popular vote, with 69 million votes counted, Kennedy only had a 113,000 lead — a margin of .2 percent. In the end, it came down to 49.7 percent for Kennedy, and 49.6 percent for Nixon — a razor-thin win.

The drama had centered on Illinois and Texas. Texas, home of vice presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson, chose the Kennedy-Johnson ticket by a 46,000 vote margin. In Illinois, Kennedy won by just 9,000 votes.

Those two states, had Nixon won them, would have been enough to defeat Kennedy in the Electoral College by two votes.

Corruption was widespread in Illinois elections. In Chicago, many to this day believe Mayor Richard “The Boss” Daley and his union operators stuffed the ballot boxes of Cook County. Downstate, Democrats accused Republicans of the same voter fraud.

In Texas, Johnson was already well-rehearsed in election rigging in his Senate races all the way back to 1948, although coming up with 46,000 fraudulent votes statewide would be quite a feat in 1960.

On Nov. 9, 1960, Nixon officially conceded the election. Kennedy declared victory, and the transition of power began.

The Republican Party pursued recounts in 11 states, but soon abandoned the effort after losing in court. The brand new State of Hawaii flipped during those recounts from Nixon to Kennedy. California, which was forecasted for a Kennedy win, went to Nixon after all the absentee ballots were counted.

Nixon did not encourage Republicans to regard the election as stolen, although he was known to tell friends privately, that “We won, but it was stolen from us.” Also privately, he encouraged his key surrogates to pursue recounts.

In public, Nixon said, “Our country cannot afford the agony of a constitutional crisis.” Too much time has passed for historians to know with certain if he was right about it being stolen, but within three years, Johnson would become president after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas while riding in a motorcade.

Mat-Su Borough election results

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Results from the Nov. 3 Mat-Su Borough local elections:

In Assembly District 4, Robert Yundt II (1,819), leads two runners-up, Colleen Vague (595) and Amber Sanchez (564). Ted Leonard is retiring from this seat.

In a tight race for Assembly District 5, Clayton Tews (1,160) leads candidate Lisa Behrens (1,093) by just 67 votes. Not far behind is Candidate, Mike Alexander (854). Dan Mayfield is retiring from this seat.

School Board District 3 candidate and incumbent Ole Larson (2,100) leads Jeanne, Troshynski (1,518).

 In School Board District 6, Dwight Probasco (2,159) leads Leeland Baugus (1,269).

There are still 2,876 absentee ballots and 428 questioned ballots that remained to be counted Friday and could affect some races.

On Friday, the canvass board began canvassing the in-person and by-mail absentee ballots. 

‘Land of No’: Biden is about to shipwreck Alaska’s economic boat

Joe Biden has made many promises to his keepers that he now must keep. Of special interest to Alaska is the one that he says he is going to end America’s oil industry as we know it by 2035 as he launches the green economy.

Biden policies for the shale sector will soon alter investor behavior, which could result in a loss of up to 1 million barrels a day in oil production by 2025, according to Forbes magazine. Biden is on record saying he will ban all new oil and gas drilling on federal land, something that should send a chill up the spine of Alaskans.

In addition, the Biden White House will rejoin the Paris Climate Accords. He’ll get the U.S. back in bed with the World Health Organization, which has been wholly corrupted by China.

Biden is on record saying he will renew immigration from majority-Muslim countries. He’ll open back up the border with Mexico. He’ll restart the U.S. paying the bill for do-nothing NATO.

There will be a Biden national mask mandate and we don’t know how far that will go. U.S. Marshals would be in charge of enforcement.

For Alaska, a Biden presidency means four years in the wilderness. The depressed economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the price and production of oil will be with Alaska for a long time to come, as Biden’s Administration will likely reverse decisions made to open up oil development.

Quite simply, Alaska may once again become the Land of No, as it had been for many years before the Trump presidency.

There will be no life-saving road from King Cove to Cold Bay. There will be no Donlin Mine or Pebble Mine. Even the Kensington and Red Dog mines will find it harder to operate under more regulations they expect under a Biden EPA.

The Trump decision to exempt portions of the Tongass National Forest from the roadless rule, to allow limited, responsible logging, will be reversed.

Alaska will, for awhile at least, become unable to support its state services, and this will likely mean the Permanent Fund dividend will be scraped from the citizens and used to patch the budget hole.

For Alaska, President Trump has been the best president since Statehood — not just talking, but walking the walk on his promises. True, he was not able to get the road built to King Cove, but that was because of the judicial system blocking him.

He opened up ANWR after 40 years of effort by Alaska’s D.C. delegation, as he promised he would. He opened up a portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and now the Willow project is on track to deliver 160,000 barrels of petroleum to the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, all of it taxable to the state treasury.

He approved a treaty document to allow the A2A railroad construction, that would allow petroleum products to be shipped over land from Alberta to ports in Alaska.

These developments are now in peril, and those Alaskans with common sense will want to study their personal finances carefully over the coming weeks and make prudent decisions.

While wise Alaskans are surveying the possibilities of a depression in the state, Biden advisers, aides, and campaign staff are already divvying up the spoils of war. They have government-issued phones and computers and a 10,000-square-foot space in the Herbert Hoover Building, home of the Department of Commerce, where the pods of Biden loyalists will create landing teams to begin embedding even more Biden loyalists in every agency, with the goal of rooting out the Trump appointees and preparing the way for Biden bureaucrats to retake the vast federal agencies.

The swamp will have its due.

Gone will be Betsy Devos, Education secretary, and champion of school choice. Gone will be Interior Secretary David. Bernhardt, and BIA Chief Tara Sweeney, the fearless Alaska Native who became the head of that agency under Trump.

Andrew R. Wheeler will soon depart the Environmental Protection Agency and Region 10 Administrator Chris Hladick, who oversees the Pacific Northwest and Alaska Region of EPA, will have to find another job. William Barr, the U.S. Attorney General who brought funds to rural Alaska to fight sexual assault, will be out of there.

And most of all, gone will be Alaska’s greatest champion — the president himself, the man who built up our U.S. military and considered Alaska of upmost importance to the country. Trump will return to private life, no longer able to wrestle the bureaucratic monster that is the federal government.

Come January, the environmental league of bureaucrats from the national nonprofits will swoop in, operating under a doddering figurehead president who fumbles through his days, protected by his handlers, and who does not appear have the cognitive function to guard or grow Alaska’s economy, to say nothing of the American economy and national security.

These are dark times for Alaska. Under President Biden, the 49th State, where Trump is well regarded, will become America’s carbon sink, the economic sacrificial lamb for the rest of the nation, to assuage the wrath of the environmentalists who consider this the place on earth that must be preserved at all cost.

Nate Silver to Al Gross: You aren’t going to get 70%, brah

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Even Nate Silver, the Generation X statistician who is looked to by Democrats to paint a rosy picture for their prospects, isn’t buying what Alan Gross is selling.

Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com and the author of “ The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t.”

On Twitter, Silver noted that Alaska Senate candidate Gross was projecting a win for himself, once all the votes are counted.

Silver generously wrote that Gross was making a “bold claim,” but allowed that since the mail-in ballots were not counted, then not much information was known about the race between Gross and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan.

But this much is known: Gross underperformed Joe Biden by about 3,000 votes (of the votes already counted), while Sullivan over-performed President Donald Trump by more than 1,000 votes. Trump won Alaska, it appears, by a healthy margin.

Another way of looking at it: A voter who filled in the oval for President Trump was never going to fill in the oval for Alan Gross.

“Since there’s no gap so far between the Senate and the presidency so far I suppose that claim also implies that Biden could win Alaska,” Silver continued.

He added: “(I do not think Joe Biden is going to win Alaska. Just saying we don’t know much about it yet if there’s no mail vote counted.)

Must Read Alaska‘s crack election analyst is fairly certain that Joe Biden is not going to win Alaska, even though some 40 percent or more of the vote isn’t counted.

Because Gross needs to get over 7 out of 10 of the remaining uncounted votes to win, Gross’ claim is beyond bold, unless he knows something about all those Democrat-harvested ballots that MRAK doesn’t know.