Seattle, told by a lower court judge that it could not enforce its anti-graffiti laws, has won in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the city’s ordinance was not unconstitutional, as claimed by four people arrested for defacing public property in 2021.
City Attorney Ann Davison appealed the lower court ruling in July and the oral arguments were hard by the Ninth Circuit on Jan. 3, 2024.
“The people of Seattle won an important victory today when the Ninth Circuit upheld our City’s right to enforce our laws against graffiti property destruction,” said City Attorney Ann Davison, who ran for office on a law-and-order platform in a city that has devolved into what some see as a liberal hellhole. “Graffiti is a massive problem for our City, costing taxpayers, businesses, and residents millions of dollars while creating widespread visual blight. We must have as many tools as possible to protect neighbors and residents impacted by graffiti.”
Last June, the U.S. District Court judge in Seattle had enjoined the city from enforcing its graffiti ordinance, known as Seattle Municipal Code 12A.08.020(A)(2).
It’s a victory for Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, who made public disorder and specifically graffiti crackdowns central to her campaign two years ago.
The four plaintiffs had been arrested for using chalk on the sidewalk in front of the Seattle East Precinct police building to write statements such as “F[***] the Police.” Although they were not prosecuted, they did spend a night in jail, and now, in 2024, the two-year statute of limitations has run out on a potential indictment. But the four graffiti writers sued anyway, saying their First Amendment rights had been violated and that the Seattle ordinance is overly vague under the 14th Amendment.
A liberal Seattle judge who had been appointed by former President Bill Clinton agreed with the four and said that such an arrest amounted to censorship. She noted that children would be unlikely to be arrested for drawing rainbows on the sidewalk in front of their houses, but the four people were arrested for writing something that “irks” an officer of the law. But City Attorney Davison said that District Judge Marsha Pechman’s argument was wildly hypothetical.
“The mere fact that the city and its officers have discretion to enforce the local ordinance in some circumstances and not others is not a sufficient basis for concluding that the local ordinance is wholly vague such that it can never be enforced,” the three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit explained in their brief, agreeing with Davison.
The attorney for the four said that the case is not over.
Braden Pence, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement that their lawsuit will continue in the courts.
“Our fight for the right to criticize the Seattle Police Department in children’s sidewalk chalk written on public property without fear of arrest and booking into jail is not over,” Pence said in a statement. “The Ninth Circuit left open paths whereby Judge Pechman can still find the anti-writing ordinance unconstitutional, and we look forward to continuing to pursuing these claims in court.”
Immediately following the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli innocents by Hamas terrorists, the prominent initial reaction was condemnation of the attacks and support for Israel, even by liberals such as Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.
The near-universal support for the Jewish state quickly turned as leftists began perversely blaming Israel for the beheadings, rapes, and murders committed toward their own people.
The leftist mobs, whose obsession with demonstrations against all things western brought us Occupy Wall Street, the Women’s March, Antifa/BLM riots, and endless screeches about transgender women being women, gladly focused their trendy hate toward Jews. Their anti-Semitism is thinly veiled, but not fully disguised, as anti-Zionism.
The same ilk that insisted during the “Me Too” hysteria that all women who claim to be victims of sexual harassment and assault must be believed without question, seem to be the same people that are now questioning Jewish women’s claims of rape and torture at the hands of Hamas hordes.
The defenders of women’s allegations have become skeptics who want to see photographic proof of the violations; yet when shown videos of the atrocities as filmed by the Hamas attackers themselves, they deny the veracity of the videos. The images, they claim, are either propaganda or don’t actually show the hideous violations needed to substantiate the Jewish claims.
The mobs do their best to mimic post-war Nazi sympathizers and other anti-Semitic allies that to this day deny the deaths of six million Jews during the Final Solution, and they are finding sympathetic ears among 1) the mainstream media and 2) what is now being revealed as the base of the Democrat party. Schumer and Biden, as liberal as they are, are dinosaurs in a party now steered by the far left, although the latter is softening his stance to appease the radical demographic.
The anti-Israel demonstrations, often taking place or at least emanating from America’s college campuses, are exposing the inherent hate of its participants. College professors and administrators – vividly exposed as hypocritical and anti-Semitic during their own pitiful testimonies in front of Congress – provide guidance for their gullible and rudderless student minions, but traditional liberals are afraid of calling them out because the leftists now occupy the Democrat base, and it is too politically dangerous to alienate such a loyal bloc of voters, especially when the most important thing in their universe is keeping Donald Trump from ever again stepping foot in the White House.
One of the most outspoken critics making the connection between pro-Palestinian Hamas supporters and leftist mobs is Dennis Prager — prolific author, syndicated radio host with 400 affiliate stations, and founder of Prager U. He is a proud adherent to Judaism and an unabashed Israeli apologist who has long been frustrated by the tendency of his American Jewish brethren to vote for Democrats and leftists while simultaneously forsaking the Republicans and conservatives who have been far more supportive of Israel.
While hate groups such as neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan have traditionally received the label of “right wing” even though their groups are either fascist-based or founded by the Democrat party, the labels stuck, and anti-Semitism was associated with right wing movements.
Prager explored this phenomenon during an October 2022 interview of Benjamin Netanyahu, when he asked the conservative Israeli Prime Minister if he ever imagined a world in which the Left, rather than the Right, would be Israel’s biggest enemy. Netanyahu answered that his conservative upbringing, support for the United States, and commitment to free economies, led him to believe the right side of the political spectrum was where Israel’s support would lie.
During a recent debate at Oxford College regarding the Hamas-Israel war, Prager addressed the argument that Israel’s aggressive military response has been disproportionate because thousands more innocent Gaza lives have been lost since Oct. 7 than Israeli lives lost in the initial massacre itself. Prager offered a World War II analogy. Seeing as how he was in England for the debate, Prager referenced Great Britain’s response toward Nazi aggression. Britain caused far more German casualties than they suffered themselves. Was that disproportionate? Was it improper for Britain to bring the Aryan fascists to complete devastation, or would the proper thing have been to match the number of German casualties with the number of Brit casualties?
The latter argument appears to be what the pro-Hamas/anti-Semitic demonstrators are calling for. Hamas murdered some 1,300 Israelis on October 7th, so that should evidently be their numerical limit for the number of Palestinians/Hama supporters who meet their demise. Using this logic, one has to wonder, then, if Israel should then have a right to kidnap a couple hundred Gazans and behead a few dozen babies as well. You know, just to make things even.
Israel has to response in an intensely aggressive and utterly devastating manner in response to the October massacre. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s pledge to destroy Hamas is valid and must be carried out to completion. The continued existence of the Jewish state depends on it.
The Left, however, continues to surprise at such an appalling level that one must wonder whether it’s intentionally antagonistic. For example, the debate question at Prager’s Oxford appearance was, “Is Hamas a greater obstacle to peace than Israel?” The question itself begs incredulity. Such a question, Prager pointed out, could only come these days from an academic institution.
To equate the two groups as moral equals is ignorant naivete at best and blatant evil at worst (author’s words, not Prager’s).
Just as Nazi Germany was a greater threat to peace than Great Britain in the 1930s, so too is Hamas a greater threat to peace than Israel today. Prager advances his argument by conjoining Hamas with Isis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah. When questioned why he used Muslim and/or Arab movements as examples (because, of course, in the eyes of the Left, criticizing Muslims and Arabs is Islamophobic and racist; whereas arguing against Jews and Israel is legitimate critique), Prager pointed out that these are the only groups on earth that behead people.
In no other conflicts is there a debate about when it comes to a police state (Hamas) fighting a democratic state (Israel). The only country for which it is acceptable to target for extinction is Israel. Prager’s defense of Israel is necessary. It provides a flicker of common sense in a dark world.
When Prager visited Anchorage in 2022, he expressed a desire to return so he could experience the Northern Lights, so he is returning, this time to Fairbanks for two presentations on Saturday, Feb. 24. We are fortunate to have a courageous intellectual like Dennis Prager visiting us.
Tim Barto is a regular contributor to Must Read Alaska, a longtime follower of Dennis Prager, and vice president of Alaska Family Council – the organization bringing Prager to Alaska.
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan responded today to retaliatory strikes launched by U.S. forces against Iranian terrorist proxies in Syria and Iraq.
Iran-backed terrorist proxies have launched over 160 attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East since last October, including killing three U.S. service members and wounding dozens more in a drone attack on Jan. 28.
“The Biden administration’s response to these attacks—delayed for almost a week, and now signaling where our military will and will not strike—has been disastrous to the point of being dangerous,” said Sen. Sullivan, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sullivan reiterated his statements during an invited appearance on CNN.
“What would be more effective is to send the message to Iran’s leadership that if the Houthis continue to use Iranian missiles and Iranian intelligence from Iranian spy ships to target U.S. Navy vessels in the Red Sea, we will sink those Iranian spy ships. That is how you begin to reestablish deterrence. The Biden administration needs a sustained, multi-faceted strategy that also focuses on non-military actions—in particular, reimposing the comprehensive sanctions against the Iranian oil and gas sector that proved to be so effective during the Trump administration,” Sullivan said.
On Friday, the U.S. military struck Iran’s Quds Force units and Iran-associated militias in Iraq and Syria, a week after Houthi terrorists attacked U.S. military personnel in Jordan, killing three and injuring up to 40 American service members.
U.S. Central Command reported the strikes hit dozens of targets, and took out the command and control headquarters, ammunition storage, intelligence centers, and other locations used by a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Quds Force.
In addition, smaller militias associated with the Iranian military, similar to the Houthis, were hit, with the U.S. military striking at least 85 targets in seven locations, with more than 125 major munitions, some coming from long-range bombers.
They may have used an aircraft stationed in an island in the Indian Ocean or the United States, and would have used B-52s, B-1s, or B-2s, or any combination of the three. It’s also possible they used fighters with stand-off weapons from an aircraft carrier or nearby bases, from allied or U.S. locations.
Sullivan’s office provided a timeline of his recent actions and reactions to Biden’s Middle East policies:
On November 2, 2023, Sen. Sullivan led 12 of his Senate Republican colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding the Biden administration press for a broader, more permanent framework of sanctions on Iran from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
On November 14, 2023, Sens. Sullivan and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and a number of their Senate colleagues, introduced a resolution emphasizing the fact that deterrence is most credible when the President keeps all options on the table, including the use of military force, to deter attacks from Iran and its proxies.
On December 12, 2023, Sen. Sullivan and a number of his colleagues again sent a letter to Secretary Blinken, urging him to re-designate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), as well as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
On January 12, 2024, Sen. Sullivan expressed his support for the strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which he said were “long overdue.”
On January 12, 2024, in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Sen. Sullivan reiterated his call on the Biden administration to reestablish deterrence with regard to Iran, and argued that tougher action against Iran and its proxies will help avoid a wider war, not appeasement.
On January 17, 2024, Sen. Sullivan said the decision to redesignate the Houthi rebels as an SDGT is a “step forward” that “doesn’t go far enough.”
On January 28, 2024, Sen. Sullivan called for a “clear, lethal and overwhelming response” to the strike carried out by Iran-backed terrorist proxies that killed 3 U.S. service members and wounded dozens of others.
On January 29, 2024, in an interview on Fox News Channel, Sen. Sullivan criticized the Biden administration for pursuing an appeasement strategy toward Iran, and called for a return to the aggressive deterrence policies enacted during the Trump administration.
Planned for months and involving several other states, the Alaska National Guard may be once again going to the southern border to assist with border protection.
The action is not in direct response to the current border standoff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden, who has demanded that Abbott remove razor wire from land along the border of Mexico.
It is also not a major deployment, as has been characterized by some in social media, but consists of just 20 Guardsmen and two helicopters. The Department of Defense has asked Alaska and other states to train guardsmen for possible help with the border.
It happens on a semi-regular basis. In 2019, about 10 members of the Alaska National Guard were deployed to the American side of the U.S.-Mexico border to help with border security.
“The Alaska Army National Guard has been notified by the National Guard Bureau that it is authorized to begin training in preparation for possible mobilization to support the federal Southwest Border Mission in early FY 2025,” according to a statement by the Alaska National Guard.
“The memorandum directs the AKARNG General Support Aviation Battalion to be prepared to deploy two LUH-72 Lakota helicopters and 20 Guardsmen consisting of aircrew, maintenance specialists, and other support personnel,” the Guard said.
“Upon the final decision by the Secretary of Defense and Headquarters, Department of the Army, the unit will receive official alert and mobilization. If mobilized, the aviation detachment would deploy in a Title 10 (federally funded) status and provide rotary wing aviation support to Joint Task Force- North in support of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the Southwest border.
Created in 1989, Joint Task Force North (JTF-N) was established as Joint Task Force – Six (JTF-6). In response to President George H.W. Bush’s renewed counterdrug efforts, Army Gen. Colin Powell, then commanding general of U.S. Army’s Forces Command, issued an order Nov. 13, 1989 establishing JTF-6 at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The order established JTF-6 to serve as the planning and coordinating operational headquarters to support local, state and federal law enforcement agencies within the southwest border region to counter the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, the military says on the JTF-N website.
JTF-6’s original area of operations consisted of the four border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas – a land area of more than 660,000 square miles. In February 1995, by directive of the commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command, JTF-6’s area of responsibility was expanded to include the entire continental United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
JTF-6’s efforts led to both a greater recognition of the potential for military assistance in counterdrug efforts and a significant expansion of the partnership among active-duty forces, Reserve and National Guard components, and the nation’s law enforcement agencies.
In 2004, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) ordered JTF-6’s re-designation as JTF-N. The command’s mission has expanded to include providing homeland security and counter transnational organized crime support to the nation’s federal law enforcement agencies, and its area of responsibility has expanded to include USNORTHCOM’s area of responsibility.
From its inception as JTF-6 to its evolution as JTF-N, the command has supported more than 6,000 missions in direct support of the nation’s local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and counterdrug task forces.
The House of Representatives passed House Bill 129, addressing what is widely seen as an excessive number of registered voters in Alaska.
Recent voter registration statistics show that 106% of possible voters in Alaska are registered. With an automatic registration process, a mobile population and the state’s “intent to return” law contributing, Alaska has more voters than eligible adults.
The legislation introduces targeted measures to enhance the accuracy of voter registration, such as mandating the the director of the Division of Elections send confirmation letters to non-domiciled voters to address potential inaccuracies. Additionally, a streamlined process for canceling voter registrations would make it more efficient to remove outdated or invalid entries.
“This legislation is about restoring the integrity of the process and ultimately to build public trust in one of our most fundamental rights; the right of the people to vote,” said Rep. Sarah Vance, House Judiciary Committee chairwoman.
“Our focus is on legislation that directly impacts the lives of our constituents. HB 129 exemplifies the Alaska House Majority’s dedication to proactive governance, responding to the distinctive needs of Alaskans to fortify the foundation of our democratic principles,” added House Speaker Cathy Tilton.
Call it the Palmetto Bug — a feature of the Democrats’ presidential nominating process, which starts Saturday.
At the urging of President Joe Biden, the Democratic National Committee blew off New Hampshire’s primary on Jan. 23, requiring Democrats going to the polls in the Granite State to write in Biden’s name.
About 80,000 New Hampshire voters wrote in “Biden” for president, while on the Republican side, 176,392 voters voted for Donald Trump, and another 140,288 votes went to Nikki Haley. Over 2,000 votes went to Ron DeSantis, although he had dropped out a few days earlier.
Democrats had tried to force New Hampshire out of its first-in-nation primary position, but lost that game of chicken with the state, which simply moved its primary forward to comply with its state law requiring it to be first in the nation.
Saturday’s South Carolina Democrat Primary is the first time the Democrats are actually going to play. The Palmetto State officially kicks off the Democratic primary season on Saturday after the national party rearranged its schedule and replaced Iowa and New Hampshire as the first-in-the-nation states to vote.
Political pundits credit South Carolina voters with propelling Biden to the White House in 2020 after giving him his first primary victory of the season.
When New Hampshire voters went to the polls last month, Biden’s name wasn’t on the ballot. However, the 46th president won the Granite State primary thanks to a write-in campaign.
The President recognizes that South Carolina voters matter,” South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain and South Carolina Executive Director Jay Parmley said in a statement announcing a Jan. 27 First in the Nation Celebration and dinner.
It was almost a statement that backhanded New Hampshire as not mattering to Democrats.
“Black voters matter. And Southern voters matter,” they added. “We are grateful to him for honoring his commitment to our state and to our party by coming back to the place that started his road to the White House. For the first time ever, the backbone of the Democratic Party – Black voters – will choose who they want in the White House first.”
In November, the South Carolina Democratic Party’s Executive Council certified three candidates to participate in the primary: Biden, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, and author Marianne Williamson. Two candidates filed but were not certified, while another didn’t meet the constitutional requirements to hold the office, the party said in a news release.
Keith Nahigian, president of Nahigian Strategies, a Republican and a veteran campaign strategist, said Saturday’s primary “will be an enthusiasm measuring stick.”
“While he will win South Carolina, it takes place on a Saturday and will show what vulnerabilities he might have going forward in this cycle, especially with certain critical groups like young people and minorities,” Nahigian told The Center Square via email.
“The primary is over but the nomination process is not,” Nahigian added. “The Democratic party has a delegate/convention process with ‘super delegates’ that after the first vote is wide open. Chicago might be very interesting in August.”
Nahigian said that Biden’s team wanted this year’s primary calendar change, adding that in 2020, Biden “was closer to the end than the nomination until South Carolina bailed him out.” This time, Biden’s main challenger, Phillips, “does not have a stronghold in the state,” Nahigian said, adding the Biden team is “not operating from a position of strength.”
“The power of incumbency is a huge advantage when running for the White House but his team has tried to change the whole calendar and has fought to keep people off the ballot,” Nahigian said.
“That takes away time and energy when they should be trying to tell the stories of accomplishment,” Nahigian added. “I believe the third-party candidates this cycle might play a fair more impactful role than in other years rather than primary opponents.”
Groundhog Day may be over for 2024, but the trial of former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux has its own deja vu quality about it. The original alleged crime took place in 2018, but the former lawmaker, who is a lawyer, knows how to work a court system and delay a trial.
Monday, LeDoux has yet another scheduling and trial-prepping court date in the election fraud case that has dragged on since she was first charged by the FBI in March of 2020, and indicted by a grand jury in June of 2021, on multiple felony counts of voter misconduct in the first degree.
The charges stem from the investigation that started in 2018 against LeDoux, Lisa (Vaught) Simpson, and Caden Vaught after workers are the Division of Elections noticed irregularities in some of the absentee ballot applications and absentee ballots returned for the primary election for then-House District 15, a Muldoon neighborhood that has many immigrant Hmong residents. The Alaska State Troopers, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, conducted the investigation, the essence of which is that LeDoux and her functionaries were overly helpful in marking and returning ballots from immigrants living in at least one mobile home park in both the 2018 primary and general elections.
LeDoux and Lisa Simpson were each indicted on five counts of voter misconduct in the first degree and Caden Vaught was indicted on four counts of voter misconduct in the first degree. They all have entered pleas of not guilty to the charges.
Since then, justice has been delayed numerous times for a variety of reasons, the first few delays related to the Covid pandemic that was still creating scheduling problems in 2021.
Monday’s court appearance at 2:30 pm in the courtroom of Judge Kevin Saxby is supposed to be a trial-setting conference, not the actual trial.
But such court events have come and gone for LeDoux, who is now 75 years old. Even if she is convicted, LeDoux, who is a lawyer, is likely to appeal the charges and delays could continue for her until she reaches her late 70s. More likely than a conviction in this case is some kind of plea agreement with the state.
LeDoux was part of a caucus that called itself the Muskox Caucus. She broke ranks with Republicans and forged a Democrat majority in the House with then-Reps. Jim Colver, Paul Seaton, and Louise Stutes — all Republicans who broke off from the Republican caucus in 2016. The only Republican member of the Muskox Caucus that is still in office is Stutes.
A special meeting of the Anchorage Assembly is scheduled for Friday to allow the Assembly to backtrack on an earlier resolution that advocated for complete removal of the Eklutna Dam, which provides substantial water and power to Anchorage and power to the MatSu Valley.
The Friday meeting is at 12 pm in City Hall, Room 155. AR 2024-40 is item 5.B on the special meeting agenda.
The liberal Assembly had earlier chosen to push for the dam removal.
The dam review and plan is required by a 1991 agreement and has been in the works for years. The Assembly was on board with the Eklutna Tribe, which wants the dam removed and the salmon allowed to swim to the lake.
That Assembly stance was in place until the Assembly learned recently that the Eklutna Hydro Project, co-owned by three of the regions publicly owned utilities, and Anchorage Water and Waste Utility had signed a binding agreement, but when asked by the Assembly for the particulars, said it was confidential.
The secrecy of the agreement left some members of the Assembly who advocated for the dam to be removed with questions: How would that binding secret agreement affect property taxes?
As the Assembly is the body responsible for levying taxes, Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel said it’s time to hit the pause button on what the Assembly’s actual stance should be on the project, which she called a generational project akin to the Port of Alaska expansion.
The Assembly members Chris Constant, Zaletel, and Kevin Cross have provided a new resolution asking for a two-year extension on the plan to balance fish, power, water, and tribal rights. That resolution will also be a topic for Friday’s surprise meeting.
In actuality, the Assembly and the Municipality have little standing in the matter, since the Municipality, with support from voters, sold Municipal Light & Power to Chugach Electric. Further, nowhere in the 1991 agreement is the concept of “restoration” mentioned. That’s a relatively new approach that environmentalists have been pushing.
Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River had some thoughts on whether the Assembly was playing fast and loose with the public.
“The Anchorage Assembly’s continued demands calling for restoration of the Eklutna River – only made possible by removing the existing Eklutna Hydroelectric infrastructure – flies in the face of science, good government and common sense. Assembly members making those calls must not have read the 1991 Fish & Wildlife Agreement, because they continue to insist that ‘restoration’ is a consideration of the owners’ coalition. In fact, the only terms used are ‘mitigation’ and ‘enhancement’ of the waters below the dam; ‘restoration’ is nowhere to be found,” she said in a press release.
“Failing reading comprehension – or perhaps woke politics – are no reasons to risk 90% of the Municipality of Anchorage’s water supply, nor gut a reliable, dispatchable and low- cost, low-carbon-footprint energy solution for Southcentral Alaska. One only has to look at recent below-zero temperatures, energy demand and upcoming potential supply shortages to know that removing current energy resources is unwise,” Allard said.
To view the draft Eklutna Hydro Project Fish and Wildlife Program, click on this link.
Eklutna Draft Fish and Wildlife Program public meetings were held in January. To view the presentation from the public meetings, click here.
Public comments must be submitted by Feb. 19. Email your comment to [email protected].
In April, the project owners must submit a final proposed Fish and Wildlife Program to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for formal review. Dunleavy has until Oct. 2 to issue a final decision on the program.
Facts:
The Eklutna Hydroelectric Project is 30 miles northeast of downtown Anchorage. The three project owners are the Municipality of Anchorage, Chugach Electric Association, Inc., and Matanuska Electric Association, Inc.
It is the lowest-cost power in Southcentral Alaska, providing 44% of MEA’s renewable generation portfolio and 25% of Chugach Electric’s renewable generation portfolio. Eklutna offsets approximately 72,500 metric tons of CO2 equivalent each year.
The Project was constructed by the federal government in the 1950s and then sold to the project owners in the 1990s.
At that time, concerns were raised about the dam’s impact on fish and wildlife. During the sale, a binding agreement was entered into by the project owners, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State of Alaska (collectively the “Parties”) that requires the Project Owners to develop and propose to the Governor a program to protect, mitigate damages to, and enhance fish and wildlife impacted by the Project (1991 Agreement),” the executive summary states.
Since then, the Eklutna Tribe, membership 70, has become more influential, established government-to-government relations with Anchorage.
Parents of students at Klatt’s Elementary School were notified today that students not picked up immediately were being sent to Ocean View Elementary School for parents to pick them up, after the Klatt Road school boiler’s developed a problem.
The district said in a text message that the school’s boiler in South Anchorage is “down” and cold temperatures made the classroom environment “unsuitable” for students.
