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Disaster declared for Tuluksak

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February 8, 2021

Gov. Mike Dunleavy authorized a disaster declaration for the Tuluksak water system fire that occurred on Jan. 16, 2021, when someone in the village apparently torched the laundromat, where the water system was located that serves the 320 people in the community.

The Disaster Declaration activates the State of Alaska Public Assistance program which is designed to help communities, government organizations, and certain non-profits make repairs to utilities, public buildings, and other critical infrastructure damaged by the declared event. In addition, the public assistance disaster declaration will reimburse communities and agencies for eligible response costs associated with the disaster event.

The authorization of the disaster declaration follows weeks of discussion by a multiagency group including the State of Alaska, the Tuluksak Native Community, federal and local partners to ensure the village had no shortage of drinking water following the destruction of the water treatment plant and washeteria.

The declaration provides short term and immediate measures establishing temporary watering facilities and other processes to provide the community with potable water.

“Since the loss of the Tuluksak water system, my administration has worked with local partners, including the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation and many others, to ensure the people of Tuluksak have constant access to drinking water and that the ice road is maintained,” Dunleavy said.

“The health and safety of Alaskans is a priority. We will continue to provide support to the people of Tuluksak,” said Major General Torrence Saxe, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Currently, residents of Tuluksak have access to bottled water, which was donated to the community and is available for purchase in the community store. Air service is operational, and the ice road to Bethel and other communities provides access to potable water.

“I would like to thank all of the agencies and individuals who donated water to the community of Tuluksak,” said Dunleavy. “It never ceases to amaze me the generosity that Alaskans show when their neighbors are in need. Often, these individuals are the unsung heroes of the disaster response and recovery effort.”

A multi-agency group continues to meet and develop short and long-term solutions to the community’s water issues, such as providing a supply of filtered, but non-drinkable water, to support a temporary bathing and laundry facility; moving and setting up a mobile water treatment system from Bethel to Tuluksak to establish a temporary watering point; or to purchase a prefabricated treatment building and ship it to the community.

I’m voting for Bill Evans

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February 8, 2021

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I am a life-long Anchorage resident, husband, father of four, former candidate for Assembly, former chair of the municipal budget advisory commission, and former Republican Party district chair.

As a conservative both fiscally and socially, I want to tell you why I am supporting Bill Evans for mayor of Anchorage.

Bill Evans is the right choice at the right time. He is smart, sensible and experienced. He is the one candidate who can lead Anchorage to a brighter future.

As I look around our city, I am shocked and saddened by the state of affairs, it is nearly unrecognizable from six years ago. Homelessness, crime, job losses, businesses shuttered, national chains vacating – these are serious problems that require strong leadership – the kind of leadership that Bill Evans will provide.

Conservatives, I want to speak directly to you. I know you are fired up due to the actions of current local leadership and the destructive policies that have followed. I am pleading with you to direct that energy toward supporting a candidate who can win.

With 14 candidates in the race, this election is going to a runoff between the top two contenders. One of those will be the leading liberal and the other will be one of the three conservatives.

I know the other two conservative candidates personally and consider them friends. But Anchorage has changed. We are now a purple city, a city that voted for Biden over Trump.

The fact of the matter is, a far-right conservative candidate is no longer electable.

So what will it be? Will you cling to candidates you may align with ideologically but are not electable, resulting in more of the same policies we’ve seen for the last six years?

Or, will you join me in supporting Bill Evans, the most experienced candidate and the one who can win, so we can bring back the leadership Anchorage so desperately needs.

Andy Clary is a resident of Anchorage.

Wyoming Republicans censure Liz Cheney for her vote on impeachment

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Suzanne Downing

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February 7, 2021

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Wyoming Republicans censure Liz Cheney for her vote on impeachment

On Saturday, the Wyoming Republican Party censured Republican Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. The 74-member state central committee only saw eight of the 74 members opposing the motion.

Cheney is the third-ranking Republican in the minority caucus behind Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise. She is also the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress. Like Alaska, Wyoming has just one representative in the U.S. House, which makes a state party censure more impactful.

Anthony Bouchard, who is running against Cheney for the 2022 election, said in a statement, “Today’s vote to censure illustrates that Liz Cheney is hopelessly out of touch with Wyoming, Trump’s best state TWICE. Maybe Liz should run inside the DC Beltway in VA where she lives fulltime, because she’s never here and has no clue how we think. And doesn’t care.”

Ten Republican members of the U.S. House voted to impeach Trump based on the charge of his inciting an” insurrection.” They are:

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming
Rep. John Katko of New York
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington
Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina
Rep. David Valadao of California

Six of these Republicans have been censured, although none has reached the state party-level censure of Wyoming’s GOP against Cheney.

In Michigan, the Allegan County Republican Party chapter voted to censure Congressman Fred Upton, and Cass County has followed suit. Upton represents the Sixth Congressional District.

Michigan’s Third Congressional District Republicans are planning vote of censure for freshman Rep. Peter Meijer; that vote appears to be underway.

Washington State’s Republican Party passed a resolution publicly rebuking Republican Rep. Herrera Beutler. She represents the Third Congressional District, which is considered marginal for Republicans.

Also in Washington, Rep. Dan Newhouse has faced calls for his resignation by the three GOP leaders in his Central Washington district, who condemned him for his Jan. 13 vote to impeach.

In a letter, the GOP chairs in six of the eight counties in the 4th Congressional District condemned Newhouse for promoting his “own personal agenda, with complete disregard to the citizens who elected you.”

“It is your sworn duty as an elected official to represent the people accordingly,” they wrote. “When a representative fails to represent the people, the people must respond.”

Newhouse has refused their demands to resign.

The South Carolina Republican Party voted last month to formally censure Rep. Tom Rice for his vote to impeach Trump.

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger has been issued a formal rebuke by Republicans in his district. He has been censured by the party.

The impeachment is now in front of the Senate, which must vote. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office. Trump, however, is no longer in office, and the constitutionality of this action is in question. There is no appeal process.

George P. Shultz, a Nixon and Reagan top gun, also helped build Alaska pipeline

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Suzanne Downing

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February 7, 2021

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George P. Shultz, a Nixon and Reagan top gun, also helped build Alaska pipeline

George Shultz, a leading policy figure in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations, died at age 100 on Saturday, at his home on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif.

Shultz was a businessman and household-name government figure, who was Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary, Labor Secretary, and who was credited with ending the Cold War.

But he also had a tie to the Alaska economy and building the state.

After decades in government and in academia with The Hoover Institution, Shultz was president of Bechtel Corporation between 1974 and 1982, running the company’s global and domestic construction projects that included the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, also known as TAPS.

The pipeline project saw first pipe laid in 1975 and was completed in 1977, with Bechtel as the management contractor.

Approval for the project came under President Richard Nixon. After the U.S. Senate was tied on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, Vice President Spiro Agnew cast the tie-breaking vote in 1973. Nixon signed the bill.

Shultz had been Labor secretary for Nixon and also was director of the Office of Management and Budget. In 1972 he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury Department, and was influential in shaping the Nixon Administration’s economic policies, including attempts to control runaway inflation with wage and price freezes. He negotiated trade agreements with the Soviet Union in 1973, and the next year joined Bechtel, basing himself in Palo Alto, where he was also a fellow with the Stanford Hoover Institution.

He later joined the Reagan Administration and was Secretary of State in the 1982-1989, helping Reagan bring an end to the Cold War, one of his most storied achievements.

Born Dec. 13, 1920, two years after the end of World War 1, he was 100 years old when he died.

Zaletel on attack: Eagle River’s Allard tied to proverbial stake

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Suzanne Downing

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February 7, 2021

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Zaletel on attack: Eagle River’s Allard tied to proverbial stake

Shades of 2016, when the alt-left in Anchorage declared political holy war on Chugiak-Eagle River Assemblywoman Amy Demboski for a comment she had made on her radio talk show.

Back then, the mainstream media and leftwing bloggers explained to the public that Demboski, a conservative, had linked a Muslim family to a terrorist group.

Nothing of the sort had happened, but then-Assembly Chair Elvi Gray-Jackson publicly and tearfully apologized to the family anyway. The narrative had left the barn before the truth ever found its shoes.

The alt-left news picks its next battle with Amy Demboski

Now, it’s Eagle River Assemblywoman Jamie Allard’s turn at the liberal’s burning stake. Allard, who is Hispanic, is the subject of a “whereas” complaint by fellow Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, who doesn’t like the way Allard conducts her social media page on Facebook. The “Cancel Culture” war on Allard has begun in earnest.

Zaletel, who is an attorney, has a resolution drafted that lists a litany of grievances that Zaletel has against Allard, and then concludes by saying there is nothing the Assembly can do about it.

Zaletel posted screenshots of Allard’s comments on her own Facebook page, taking the war on Allard to her social media accounts.

Read the Zalatel resolution at this link:

AR_2021-44_ETHICS_RESOLUTIONDownload

In the complaint, Zaletel says Allard defended Nazis, when she pondered whether license plates with the words FUHRER and 3REICH could have alternate meanings.

Zaletel says that Allard deleted people from her Facebook page, and that her page was so offensive that Facebook took it down altogether, and the governor himself removed her from the Human Rights Commission.

(Leftist writers say that Allard deleted her own page, and no one seems to have the definitive answer on what happened to Allard’s Facebook page — did she accidentally delete it herself? The only evidence of that is an anonymous note attributed to Facebook but unverifiable. Did Facebook take action? A request to Facebook from this author went unanswered.)

Zaletel has served on the Assembly since 2019, representing District 4 Seat F. Her term ends in 2022.

Allard was elected in 2020 and came in like a lion last spring when she took office on April 21. Her term ends in 2023.

Both Assemblywomen, who in some ways represent opposite political viewpoints, are now under pressure by opposing forces who want them to be recalled.

The recall effort against Zaletel failed after the municipal clerk refused to issue a petition booklet and the recall proponents didn’t pursue the case in court. Whether they will pursue Zaletel’s recall just one year before the election for that seat is unclear.

Also now subject to recall on the Assembly is Chairman Felix Rivera, who will stand for recall on the April 6 ballot, and Forrest Dunbar, who had an “application for recall petition” filed against him last week.

Dunbar is running for mayor but will also face a motivated recall movement in his East Anchorage district. They have an uphill battle, however: Dunbar was unopposed during his last election for Assembly. Some 8,780 votes were cast in that district, so 2,195 valid signatures are needed to place Dunbar’s name on a recall ballot.

The Tuesday Assembly meeting begins at 5 pm. The agenda and particulars are at this link.

The Anchorage Assembly’s war on conservatives

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February 7, 2021

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The Anchorage Assembly’s war on conservatives

By: CRAIG E. CAMPBELL

On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly will launch the most vicious and unethical action I have ever witnessed by that body.

Assembly member Meg Zaletel has introduced a vindictive resolution to trash Assembly member Jamie Allard, based on social media posts Zalatel has taken out of content, misconstrued, and distorted in an effort to smear and do deliberate harm to Allard’s reputation and her ability to effectively represent her constituents.

Zaletel vilified Allard by stating she “…breached the public trust by seriously eroding the trust and respect of Municipal residents towards the Assembly…”

Really. Let’s talk about breaching the trust and respect of municipal residents by Assembly members. Shall we bring up the time when Assembly member Chris Constant publicly disparaged a person who had just testified after the person had left the room?

Read: Dan Fagan: Assemblyman says racism baked into community

How about Assemblymen Forrest Dunbar and Chris Constant unethically pressuring pastors to submit comments supporting former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s homeless shelter hotel purchases?

Read: Shame Game: Dunbar, Constant admit they strong-armed pastors

Zaletel’s personal attack against Allard brings to mind the old adage, “Those who live in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.”

This in-your-face frontal assault by the Left on Allard blows apart the myth that liberals actually believe in unity, fairness, and open conversation.

In fact, they are vicious Marxists who strive for absolute obedience and suppression of opposing speech.

We must really be getting under the skin of this thin-skinned socialist bunch. Because Allard stands up for conservative values against a sea of uber-liberal doctrine from her colleagues on the Marxist-dominated Anchorage Assembly, a small group of malcontents has decided to initiate a recall against her. Here is what they claim are her “offenses:”

“It is unacceptable that a Public Official :

Supports enabling hate speech in our community

Consistently disrupts Assembly business, unethically

Uses her publicly funded position to incite disruptive violence by her supporters

Consistently bullies, disuades, deletes and marginalizes citizens of her District and Anchorage that are not aligned with her personal viewpoints

For these reasons and many more – we are dedicated to the recall of Jamie Allard

and a step towards more grace and dignity to our beloved City.”

(Quoted from the Recall Jamie Allard Facebook page)

Let’s analyze their accusations a bit.

Supports enabling hate speech in our community. False – while Allard is aggressive in her defense of conservative values and engages in strong debates with the nine Leftists assembly members, she has never engaged in hate speech. What a cheap shot to take, when in fact it has been Felix Rivera, Chris Constant, Forrest Dunbar, and Pete Peterson who have made hate speech comments from the dais against Allard and members of the public.
Consistently disrupts Assembly business, unethically. False – Allard’s “disruptions” at the Assembly meetings are no more than forceful points refuting liberal drivel and attacks against her and in defense of citizens that are testifying and being rudely treated by her colleagues.
Uses her publicly funded position to incite disruptive violence by her supporters. I guess if you’re going to make things up to gaslight hate and discontent, you might as well just libel someone with the “violence” label.
Consistently bullies, dissuades, deletes, and marginalizes citizens of her District and Anchorage that are not aligned with her personal viewpoints. False, again. Allard is a strong woman who stands for the conservative values of Chugiak/Eagle River. This accusation is blatant misogyny, stated by weak people afraid of strong female leadership. The Left are such hypocrites.

You would think Jamie Allard is the devil reincarnated from these torrid and libelous posts on Facebook — lies that will never be deleted, censored, or stated as misinformation by the truth squad at Facebook.

Just like the dishonest misinformation campaign waged against President Trump by the Left, our local gang thinks we can also be bamboozled like sheep into believing their lies.

In fact, each of these accusations against Allard actually applies directly to past actions by the infamously unethical Assembly members Rivera; Constant; Peterson; Dunbar; and, my personal favorite, Zaletel.

Instead of creating a poisonous environment by demonizing their political opposition, they might want to consider the fate Rivera now faces due to his horrendous behavior on the Assembly.

Rivera is being recalled and it is projected Assembly District 4 will vote him out of office in April.

Also, Alaskans For Open Meetings is now in court against the municipality for the illegal actions of Chairman Rivera in violating the COVID-19 Emergency Orders. As Zaletel states in her resolution, these orders are “law.” If Allard needs to follow them, so does the entire Assembly.

That same pent-up anger against incompetent Chairman Rivera is starting to fester and engulf the entire liberal Assembly. Efforts to recall Zaletel continue and a recall petition is now being pursued against Czar Dunbar for his despicable coercion of Anchorage pastors over the recent hotel purchases for vagrants.

Read: Recall petition against Forrest Dunbar

A lawsuit has been filed by two constituents for the unlawful refusal to fill the vacant Assembly District 3, Seat E seat since last October.

Read: Two file lawsuit over Quinn-Davidson’s vacant seat

The constantly disparaging comments by foul-mouthed Assemblyman Constant is also fueling a movement against him.

The pounding of the war drums against the Assembly’s tyranny is getting louder and louder.

You know what’s going on. The Left is now threatened by an awakened moderate and conservative constituency in Anchorage that is fed-up with the uber-liberal Assembly, which is driving up vagrancy, politically interfering with law enforcement, killing businesses, increasing taxes, targeting their opposition with code enforcers and harassing mandates, and attempting to silence their opposition.

The Left is trying to change the narrative from their dismal failure as self-proclaimed political leaders, by vilifying their primary vocal opponent.

It won’t work. Chugiak/Eagle River strongly supports Jamie Allard and will not be duped by socialist charlatans into rebuking a conservative voice on the Assembly.

Supporters of Assembly member Allard are encouraged to show up at the Assembly meeting next Tuesday to support Jamie.

Municipal Assembly Agenda

Your presence would further send the message to these leftist that we will not be sit back and let them terrorize conservatives through threats and intimidation.

In just 60 days voters have the chance to recall Rivera and at the same time elect a less radical mayor. Don’t let this opportunity slip away. The fight to save the soul of Anchorage is now and if we do not start moving back toward the center, we truly will have become Los Anchorage.

Craig E. Campbell served on the Anchorage Assembly between 1986 and 1995 and later as Alaska’s Tenth Lieutenant Governor. He was the previous Chief Executive Officer and President for Alaska Aerospace Corporation. He retired from the Alaska National Guard as Lieutenant General (AKNG) and holds the concurrent retired Federal rank of Major General (USAF).

Recall petition filed against Forrest Dunbar

Suzanne Downing

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February 6, 2021

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Recall petition filed against Forrest Dunbar

A petition to recall Anchorage Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar was filed today with the Municipal Clerk’s office in Anchorage.

The petition cites a strong-arming campaign that Dunbar admitted to in an email to Assemblyman Chris Constant last year. Political coercion is illegal under Alaska Statute.

Petitioner Marie Boyd turned the petition in this afternoon, but there are 20 other signatures on the application.

The application must be approved by the City Clerk, who would then issue petition booklets.

Public corruption: Did Dunbar and Constant break Alaska law against coercion?

In the case of the recall effort for Assemblyman Felix Rivera, it took a court fight to get the Municipality to release the petition booklets. That recall will be on the April 6 municipal ballot, but the petitioners have spent tens of thousands of dollars to overcome Rivera’s legal objections.

In addition to the recall effort against Rivera, Dunbar’s name will be on the April ballot as one of 14 candidates for mayor. He is widely believed to be the Democrats’ favorite.

Dunbar represents East Anchorage, with a term ending in April of 2022.

This story is unfolding and will be updated.

‘Shame’ game: Dunbar and Constant admit they strong-armed pastors into supporting vagrant plan

Win Gruening: Dunleavy recall, opening Pandora’s box

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February 6, 2021

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Win Gruening: Dunleavy recall, opening Pandora’s box

By WIN GRUENING

As a political opposition group renews its effort to gain sufficient signatures to force a recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, one can’t help but question their end game.

The stated objective is to unseat the governor before the next statewide election, but the effort has devolved into a dark money campaign to hijack Alaska’s recall statutes to discredit the governor at every opportunity.

What if the Recall Dunleavy group has no intention of forcing a special election? Instead, what if it is using the recall to influence the 2022 regular election with anonymous donors thereby avoiding pesky APOC disclosure rules? If so, recall advocates should be careful what they wish for.

While recall statutes vary from state to state, in Alaska, there are four acceptable grounds for recall: lack of fitness, incompetence, neglect of duties, or corruption.

A recall, therefore, provides a remedy to remove elected officials who commit serious crimes or who are unwilling or incapable of fulfilling their constitutional duties.

Alaskan courts have previously held that grounds for recall must be substantive, not just technical or procedural, and that disagreement with an elected official’s policies is not a valid basis for recall.

Yet, courts have been loath to interpret potential ballot issues too strictly. This has resulted in recalls allowed to proceed for even the most minor transgressions.

Recall organizers cite over 50 reasons to recall the Governor on their website. Only a handful remotely relate to the ones listed in their official recall application. Most aren’t legally permissible reasons, but rather partisan talking points for a political campaign opposing the Governor’s past and proposed budget cuts.

Most telling, however, is that their website name “RecallDunleavy.org” was reserved barely 60 days after Dunleavy was sworn in and 11 days before Dunleavy officially announced his amended budget on February 13, 2019. None of the actions used as grounds for recall had yet occurred.

This effort was a recall waiting for a reason, not a reason for a recall. It has subsequently been transformed into a do-over of the 2018 gubernatorial campaign with blatantly political positions used as rationale why voters should sign the recall petition.

But unlike a legitimate political campaign, there’s no way to know who’s funding it. A loophole in campaign finance law means there’s no requirement to disclose the names of financial supporters, or how much money is being contributed or spent during the recall signature gathering phase.

Their recall/political campaign can continue unabated, unregulated, and un-transparent until signatures are submitted to the State. Theoretically, this could last up until their legally mandated deadline – 6 months prior to the end of Dunleavy’s term.

That’s certainly one way to wage an underground campaign against your opponent. But, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

As noted in Andrew Jensen’s recent op-ed in the Alaska Journal of Commerce, there’s a certain poetic justice in that a court used similar logic in approving a recall petition launched against Felix Rivera, an uber-liberal Anchorage Assembly member.

The superficial technicality used to justify the Rivera recall (allowing 17 people instead of 15 inside Assembly Chambers) mirrors the ludicrous legal basis for the Dunleavy recall.

Hopefully, the Legislature will tighten the recall statutes in the future – specifically exempting minor lapses and requiring more disclosure. For now, at least, apparently, they are being applied equally regardless of politics.

But there’s a larger lesson here. Much like Democrat Party threats to end the congressional filibuster or pack the Supreme Court, opening Pandora’s Box with these kinds of questionable tactics has a way of coming back to haunt their creator.

Meanwhile, amid the political mumbo-jumbo, the real losers are Alaskans who see more pressing issues on the horizon. State government must tackle a huge budget deficit, a devastated economy, and a safe resolution to the pandemic.

Regardless of political persuasion, can we agree that transparency matters, and unregulated political campaigns funded by dark money are dangerous, undemocratic, and simply not credible?

The dubious pretexts used to justify these recalls distract from the real challenges facing our state. The political issues raised are more appropriately decided by voters in the light of day when officials face re-election.

Win Gruening retired as the senior vice president in charge of business banking for Key Bank in 2012. He was born and raised in Juneau and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1970. He is active in community affairs as a 30-plus year member of Juneau Downtown Rotary Club and has been involved in various local and statewide organizations.

TSA to fine travelers up to $1,500 for flouting mask rule

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Suzanne Downing

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February 6, 2021

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TSA to fine travelers up to $1,500 for flouting mask rule

Transportation Security Administration is enacting a fine ranging from $250 for the first offense and up to $1,500 for repeat offenses for those who refuse to wear a face mask in a U.S. airport. The Transportation Security Administration received authorization last Sunday to enact fines.

But that’s just the beginning. The agency may seek amounts higher than the suggested ranges, based on “substantial aggravating or mitigating factors,” the agency wrote. In other words, the fine for not wearing a mask could be many times the value of the ticket for a flight.

As of Feb. 1, the Biden Administration has ordered travelers to wear face masks while in airports, bus stations, and rail depots, as well as while they are passengers on aircraft, public transportation, buses, railroad cars, and while at other transportation hubs.

Last week, TSA began requiring masks at airport screening checkpoints, a requirement that will remain in place until May 11, unless extended by the Biden Administration.

“Passengers without a mask may be denied entry, boarding, or continued transport. Failure to comply with the mask requirement can result in civil penalties,” TSA wrote.

“Whether beginning the security screening process at the airport Travel Document Checker (TDC) or submitting checked baggage for screening, all passengers who appear to be over the age of 2 must properly wear a face mask throughout the security screening process. The officer at the TDC will request that travelers temporarily lower the mask to verify their identity. Those who approach the TDC without a mask will be asked to wear or obtain one to proceed. Passengers who refuse to wear a mask will not be permitted to enter the secure area of the airport, which includes the terminal and gate area. Depending on the circumstance, those who refuse to wear a mask may be subject to a civil penalty for attempting to circumvent screening requirements, interfering with screening personnel, or a combination of those offenses,” TSA wrote.

Face shields are not acceptable, TSA says: “Face masks should cover the nose and mouth and fit snugly against the sides without gaps. Masks can be either manufactured or homemade and should be a solid piece of material without slits, exhalation valves, or punctures. While medical masks and N-95 respirators fulfill CDC and TSA’s requirements, face shields and/or goggles are not an acceptable substitute for the use of a mask; however, they may be used in addition to an acceptable mask.”

Read more at this link.

Disaster declared for Tuluksak

I’m voting for Bill Evans

Wyoming Republicans censure Liz Cheney for her vote on impeachment

George P. Shultz, a Nixon and Reagan top gun, also helped build Alaska pipeline

Zaletel on attack: Eagle River’s Allard tied to proverbial stake

The Anchorage Assembly’s war on conservatives

Recall petition filed against Forrest Dunbar

Win Gruening: Dunleavy recall, opening Pandora’s box

TSA to fine travelers up to $1,500 for flouting mask rule

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