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Seattle-based yacht sinks in Glacier Bay, four rescued

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Seattle-based yacht sinks in Glacier Bay, four rescued

The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan crew rescued four mariners after their boat capsized in Glacier Bay National Park on Friday.

At 12:04 p.m., watchstanders at the Sector Juneau command center received a distress alert in the vicinity of Muir Inlet from a digital selective calling device registered to Cats N Dawgs, a 66-foot privately owned pleasure craft, based in Seattle.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka diverted from training nearby and arrived on scene less than an hour later, at approximately 12:59 p.m. to find the vessel taking on water with a severe list. A good Samaritan vessel Alaskan Hunter was also on scene attempting to assist those aboard the sinking vessel.

Shortly after the Jayhawk crew arrived on scene, Cats N Dawgs sank in 150 feet of water 300 feet from shore.

Alaskan Hunter recovered all four survivors, two adults and two teenagers, from the vessel and transported them to shore where the Jayhawk crew conducted a passenger exchange. The survivors were then transferred to awaiting EMS at 2:08 p.m. in Juneau. No injuries were reported and the survivors are reportedly in stable condition. 

Good Samaritans rescued four from the Cats N Dawgs yacht that sank in Glacier Bay on Friday.

“Mariners all over the world, but especially in Alaska, will often drop everything to help out a fellow mariner in need. We saw this today from the Alaskan Hunter,” said Lt. Cmdr. Preston Strobel, command duty office, Sector Juneau command center. “This could have been a devastating start to the holiday weekend.” 

The cause of the incident is under investigation. The Coast Guard and National Parks Service are working with the vessel owner to establish a salvage plan. 

On scene weather was air temperature of 57 degrees, 1-foot seas, and 3-mph winds.

The yacht had left Seattle and made its way up the Inside Passage, with stops in British Columbia, Petersburg, Juneau, and Glacier Bay.

Notes from the trail: Top polling analyst FiveThirtyEight projects a winner in Alaska congressional, Senate races

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Notes from the trail: Top polling analyst FiveThirtyEight projects a winner in Alaska congressional, Senate races

The Notes from the Trail series continues. Look for all the candidates at one parade or another this weekend. It will be hot from Fairbanks to Ketchikan, and those who forget their sunscreen will have to face the music in the mirror later.

The fundraisers are going strong in July, and there are plenty more where those came from. Above, a photo of Nick Begich, running for Congress, with Carlos Gomez, father of Scotty Gomez, at Bell’s Nursery, where Nick was having a fundraiser on Wednesday.

Peltola coming on strong: New events coming up next week include a fundraising party for Democrat Mary Peltola for Congress, which features many Democrats who previously supported Chris Constant, the Anchorage Assemblyman who received just 3.86% of the vote during the special primary election. Now, the Democrats have all moved to Camp Peltola.

The obvious in-your-face irony of the fundraiser is the address — it’s being held at Mark Begich-Deborah Bonito’s house. Mark is the uncle of Republican Nick Begich, who is running against Peltola and Sarah Palin for the congressional seat.

Even more curious is that on the list of co-hosts is Alice Rogoff, the former owner of the Anchorage Daily News, aka Alaska Dispatch. She is the publisher who all-but installed Bill Walker as governor in 2014.

Rogoff is still a registered voter in Alaska, although she did not vote in the state after 2020, and has sold her North Pointe Circle mansion in Anchorage.

Go ask Alice: Rogoff mansion sells

Also on the list of co-hosts is former Gov. Tony and Susan Knowles, and Veronica Slajer, wife of DC lobbyist Jack Ferguson, who first supported Josh Revak for Congress. This is most certainly a high-roller event:

Andrew Gray: Speaking of Democrats, Andrew Timothy Gray, running for Alaska House of Representatives, recorded himself at his recent fundraiser and set it to music in this oddly entertaining campaign ad, in which we can see Anchorage School Board member Kelly Lessens listening intently to his dramatic presentation:

In addition to Gray in the race for House Seat 20 (under new numbering system), Republicans Jordan Harary and Paul Bauer are on the ballot. Gray has the support of the Alaska Democratic Party.

Jamie Allard: The same night as the Mary Peltola fundraiser, Alaska’s Jamie Allard has a fundraiser for her campaign for House District 23, happening at Chepo’s in Eagle River:

On July 6, Nick Begich for Congress will be in Kenai for a fundraiser at Paradiso’s Pizza.

The polling analyst Nate Silver, who runs the FiveThirtyEight.com website, is projecting winners for all the House and Senate seats. For Alaska, he predicts that Nick Begich will win, as he wins in 70% of the simulations that the company ran using ranked choice voting. Mary Peltola gets 13% of the simulations, and Sarah Palin wins 10% of the simulations.

Read about it here.

Silvers is also predicting that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has a smooth path to victory. In 100 simulations, she wins, 85 times, with Kelly Tshibaka winning 11 times and Edgar Blatchford winning 5 times. No sign of Democrat Pat Chesbro.

Bill Walker brings in Obama team: Bill Walkers’ campaign for governor launched an ad this weekend on the theme of “Mike Dunleavy has driven Alaska into the ditch.” Walker-Drygas’ new ad firm is GMMB, the huge national firm that did President Barack Obama’s campaign. And Joe Biden’s. And Kamala Harris’. And Bill Clinton’s. And Gretchen Whitmer for Governor of Michigan. And Charlie Crist for Congress, Florida. You get the drift.

Monkeypox now in 30 states, plus Puerto Rico, and nearly doubled cases in one week to 396

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Monkeypox now in 30 states, plus Puerto Rico, and nearly doubled cases in one week to 396

The United States is seeing the monkeypox virus surging. At the beginning of the week, the number of known cases in the United States was 209. But as of the end of Pride Month, June 30, the Centers for Disease Control reported 396 cases in 30 states, or 60% of all states reporting at least one case. Puerto Rico, a territory, also has a documented case.

To date, no known cases of monkeypox have been identified in Alaska, but the virus is being spread primary in the sexually active community of men having sex with other men and it appears that the virus will make its way north eventually. It has been diagnosed in Hawaii.

The CDC said it will make vaccine available to men who have sex with men who have had multiple recent partners. When vaccine supplies are better, the advice may change, said Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC.

“As soon as we have more vaccines available, we will of course continue to expand from a post-exposure prophylaxis strategy ideally to a pre-exposure prophylaxis strategy,” Walensky said. “I do think it would be wise to address that expansion at a time when we have more vaccine so we can really follow where the outbreak is densest.”

Right now, the outbreak is spreading in California and New York, with Illinois and Florida also seeing double-digit cases. The “big three” Democratic stronghold states are California, New York and Illinois. The outbreak started in coastal states where Democrats are mainly in control and is working its way into the “flyover states” of the Midwest, as well as into the Bible Belt South.

In Europe, the case count has tripled. The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe division warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in two weeks. Europe and the United Kingdom are hot spots, but in known sex tourism centers such as Thailand, there have been no reported cases.

In the United States, the contagion has taken off at a greater rate than in Europe. Four weeks ago, there were 9 reported cases in seven states. Today’s count of 296 is an over 4,000% increase from what it was at the end of May.

Monkeypox is not as highly contagious as Covid-19 and a different kind of health response is called for. It is primarily spread through intimate contact with an infected person or animal, or to a lesser degree may be spread through contaminated surfaces or respiratory droplets. The current outbreak of 5,323 cases in 52 countries is still mainly in populations of men who have sex with men.

The latest from the CDC is at this link.

Monkeypox now spread to 26 states
World Health Org. to rename monkeypox because its racist

Pro-abortion protesters scream and march in front of home of Justice Amy Coney-Barrett … again

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Pro-abortion protesters scream and march in front of home of Justice Amy Coney-Barrett … again

A group of pro-abortion protesters marched again outside conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home Thursday evening, chanting expletives and waving various pro-abortion signs. The group is largely the work of Our Rights DC, which has been organizing protests outside the homes of the five Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The group was about 20 in number outside the justice’s home in Falls Church, Virginia. Coney-Barrett has minor-age children in the home, including two who are under 10 years old. A similar protest is planned for Friday night in front of the home of Justice Clarence Thomas, and a national “day of action” is planned by the group for Monday, Independence Day.

Meanwhile, in Alaska, various protests of the decision are still popping up. In Fairbanks, Juneau, and Anchorage, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates West will host protests on July 9, the same day that President Donald Trump will be in Anchorage for a rally for U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

President Joe Biden, while on an overseas visit to Spain for the NATO summit, attacked the U.S. Supreme Court: “The one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States,” Biden told reporters in Madrid. He was planning a teleconference meeting with pro-abortion governors on Friday and said he supports putting federal abortion rights into law by any means necessary.

While Biden is in the “any means necessary” mode, pro-abortion protesters are too, and have been repeatedly publishing the home addresses of the five justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade so that they can be targeted by pro-abortion demonstrations.

Bat found in downtown Douglas tests positive for rabies

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Bat found in downtown Douglas tests positive for rabies

A bat found in Douglas, out in the daytime and acting abnormally, tested positive for rabies but there has been no exposure to people from this bat, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Wildlife veterinarian Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen tested the bat Wednesday. Beckmen, leader of the ADF&G Wildlife Health and Disease Surveillance Program, routinely conducts disease testing including rabies on six to 10 bats each year. In more than 45 years of rabies testing in Alaska, about 200 bats have been examined. This case of rabies is just the sixth bat to test positive. All six rabid bats were found in Southeast Alaska, and were either dead or euthanized for exhibiting abnormal behavior.

“This is the first time a bat on Douglas Island or in the Juneau area has tested positive but that doesn’t mean we expect more cases,” Beckmen said. “This detection in a different location just highlights that the risk of bat rabies is always present in southeast Alaska, and it’s crucial that people keep their pet’s rabies vaccinations current.”

Beckmen tests bats for a variety of diseases, including white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has killed millions of bats in the Eastern U.S.; the disease has not been detected in bats in Alaska. Beckmen sent a brain sample from the rabid bat to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation and to determine the rabies virus variant.

State wildlife biologist Roy Churchwell, based in Douglas, said the bat was found during the daytime Sunday crawling on the grass outside an apartment building in the town of Douglas, which is on Douglas Island and is part of the City and Borough of Juneau.

“Sometimes a healthy bat may become disoriented and will be seen in the daytime, but will fly off and find cover,” he said. Juneau Police Department Animal Control and Protection was notified, as was Churchwell. The person who found the bat pushed it into an open box without touching it and left it outside overnight; the bat did not leave and Churchwell collected it Monday morning. It was euthanized and sent to Beckmen, who is based in Fairbanks.

Karen Blejwas, a wildlife biologist and bat researcher in Juneau, identified the bat as a silver-haired bat.

“Silver-haired bats are not as common in the Juneau area as little brown bats, but they are present,” she said. About six different bat species can be found in Southeast, including long- eared bats and California myotis. The little brown bat is the most common and widespread bat in Alaska and the only species found north of Southeast Alaska.

The last bat to test positive for rabies in Alaska was found dead in 2015 at Point Couverden, about 25 miles west of Juneau.

Many cases of rabies occur each year among arctic and red foxes in northern and western coastal of Alaska. Dogs and other mammals are sometimes infected and unvaccinated dogs attacked by foxes become the greatest risk for rabies exposure to Alaskans. Anyone who is bitten by a wild animal should wash the wound and call a health care provider.

Beckmen said if a bat is acting sick or abnormal or is out in daytime, don’t handle it with bare hands, and contact the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Anyone who may have been bitten or scratched by a bat, including someone who may have been asleep in a room with a bat and potentially had contact, should contact a health care provider immediately to be evaluated. If you find a bat in your home and no one has been in contact with it you can visit the ADF&G website and learn how to safely release it and report your observation. A list of contacts for area offices and more information on bats can be found by visiting adfg.alaska.gov and searching on “Living with Bats.”

Supreme Court remands ‘Remain in Mexico’ to lower court

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Supreme Court remands ‘Remain in Mexico’ to lower court

By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a circuit court’s decision in a case brought by Texas and Missouri over the Biden administration ending the Trump era- Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), known as the Remain in Mexico policy.

The court remanded the case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to determine if a Department of Homeland Security memo issued Oct. 29 “was arbitrary and capricious.” Once that ruling is determined, the case can be appealed again. The lower court would decide if DHS is violating federal immigration law by releasing illegal immigrants into the U.S. instead of detaining them.

While many are reporting the ruling ends the program, the court’s ruling remands the case back to the lower court.

In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion for the majority. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh joined. Kavanaugh filed a separate concurring opinion.

Justice Samuel Alito filed the dissenting opinion, in which justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined.

In a lengthy case with many legal twists and turns, the court heard arguments presented by Texas and Missouri in April. “Missouri and Texas filed suit after the Biden Administration suspended the policy and obtained a permanent injunction in federal court, and then successfully defended that injunction in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States,” Missouri AG Eric Schmitt told The Center Square at the time.

Last August, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas ordered the administration to reinstate the MPP, ruling that halting it violated the Administrative Procedures Act. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Kacsmaryk’s ruling more than once, determining the administration also violated federal immigration law.

The Department of Homeland Security amended rules it had proposed to circumvent the initial points of the lawsuits brought by the states to make the lawsuits moot, attorneys general who filed briefs in support of Texas’ and Missouri’s lawsuit have argued. The ruling appears to address the technicality of the procedural maneuvers, not the validity of the program.

In Kavanaugh’s separate opinion, he said as much. “The larger policy story behind this case is the multi-decade inability of the political branches to provide DHS with sufficient facilities to detain noncitizens who seek to enter the United States pending their immigration proceedings,” he said. “But this Court has authority to address only the legal issues before us. We do not have authority to end the legislative stalemate or to resolve the underlying policy problems.”

Roberts, writing for the majority, said the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals “erred,” in several instances, according to the syllabus of the opinion.

The majority opinion also states, “The Government’s rescission of MPP did not violate section 1225 of the [Immigration and Nationality Act], and the October 29 Memoranda did constitute final agency action.”

Justice Samuel Alito, argued the court “is not only wrong to reach the merits of this case, but its analysis of the merits is seriously flawed.”

Alito, Thomas and Barrett argued in their dissent, “In fiscal year 2021, the Border Patrol reported more than 1.7 million encounters with aliens along the Mexican border. When it appears that one of these aliens is not admissible, may the Government simply release the alien in this country and hope that the alien will show up for the hearing at which his or her entitlement to remain will be decided? Congress has provided a clear answer to that question, and the answer is no.

“By law, if an alien is ‘not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted,’ the alien ‘shall be detained for a [removal] proceeding.’ And if an alien asserts a credible fear of persecution, he or she ‘shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum,’ … Those requirements, as we have held, are mandatory.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the decision was “an unfortunate one, and I believe it was wrongly decided. Over a year ago, Texas and Missouri sued the Biden Administration for illegally abandoning MPP. I won in district court and then won again on appeal. The Administration dragged its feet and refused to implement this effective program in good faith, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegals to pour over the border month after month.”

“Today’s decision makes the border crisis worse,” he said, but “it’s not the end.”

Paxton vowed to “keep pressing forward and focus on securing the border and keeping our communities safe in the dozen other immigration suits I’m litigating in court.”

“Our Office defeated the Biden Administration‘s first two attempts to terminate the vitally-important ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy,” Schmitt’s press secretary, Chris Nuelle, told The Center Square. “We look forward to defeating their third attempt to terminate the policy in district court. Our fight for border security continues on.”

Fourth of July patrols increased, and fireworks banned

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Fourth of July patrols increased, and fireworks banned

The Alaska State Fire Marshal’s Office, in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources / Division of Forestry & Fire Protection, is implementing an immediate suspension on the use of fireworks across much of Alaska.

The suspension will remain in effect until further notice in:

  • Kenai Peninsula Borough 
  • Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  • Denali Borough
  • Fairbanks NorthStar Borough
  • The areas in and around Delta Junction, Tok, and the upper Tanana Valley
  • Copper River Basin Area

“The weather forecast over much of the state for this holiday weekend will keep fire danger high,” said State Fire Marshal Richard Boothby. “With much of the wildland firefighting personnel and assets already assigned to fires burning in the state, we can’t take any chances of more human-caused fires. We want everyone to have a safe holiday weekend.”

In its request to the State Fire Marshal for the suspension, the State Forester’s Office cited the wildfire responders being at Preparedness Level 5. Preparedness level 5 is the highest level identified in the Alaska Preparedness Plan and is reached when most of the initial and extended attack resources are committed to new and existing fires.

According to a report from the State Emergency Operations Center, there are currently 160 fires in Alaska, with 10 new ones on Wednesday. Some 17 fires are staffed with firefighters. The fire risk is very high due to the forecasted dry weather with lightning. In addition, fire smoke is at health advisory levels in parts of the state. Over 1,600,000 acres have burned this season.

Also starting Friday, Alaska State Troopers will have increased high-visibility patrols on Alaska’s highways to prevent fatal and serious-injury crashes. While Troopers will focus on DUI enforcement for both alcohol and drugs, they will also watch for aggressive driving, distracted driving, speeding, and people not wearing seatbelts. The increased patrols will run July 1 through July 5.

“As we approach Independence Day and many Alaskans take to the highways, please stay out from behind the wheel if you have had intoxicating substances,” said Captain Tony April, Commander of Alaska State Troopers “B” Detachment. “Call a cab, call a friend, call a family member or responsible adults. There is no excuse for putting yourself and everyone else on the road at risk by driving under the influence. Your safety and the safety of others are paramount; you have options.”

Additionally, motorists witnessing others driving dangerously are encouraged to make a REDDI report (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) by calling 911. To learn more about REDDI, visit this link.

Funding for this increased highway patrol effort come from the National DUI High Visibility Enforcement Campaign with funds issued through the Alaska Highway Safety Office.

Boom: Supreme Court curtails EPA on carbon emissions from fossil fuels

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Boom: Supreme Court curtails EPA on carbon emissions from fossil fuels

In a major ruling on its last day of session, the U.S. Supreme Court said today the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to broadly regulate carbon emissions from power plants if it doesn’t have authority granted by Congress.

The decision in West Virginia v. EPA, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, passed 6-3, with only the Leftist members of the court dissenting.

Alaska joined the lawsuit with 18 other states on behalf of West Virginia.

The majority ruled that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA the sweeping authority it has taken starting in the Obama Administration in requiring existing coal-fired power plants to either reduce their generation of electricity or subsidize the increased generation of natural gas, wind or solar energy.

Rather, the court ruled, this authority lies with Congress.

“Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day,'” Justice Roberts wrote. “But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.”

“A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body,” he added.

Power the Future’s Alaska State Director Rick Whitbeck said the ruling was correct, in that the EPA cannot act in a way not expressly given to it by Congress.

“Today’s decision tells us what we already knew, that the Biden Administration is using executive powers to usurp congressional authority and doing so illegally,” Whitbeck said. “Now maybe they can get back to the business of restoring American energy independence and reversing the all-out attacks on America’s greatest industry.”

Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion that was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

In the dissent, the three complained the court should not even have taken the case since the Biden Administration is getting ready to issue a new rule.

Kagan wrote that the majority’s decision “rests on one claim alone: that [power] generation shifting is just too new and too big a deal for Congress to have authorized it.” She added that the “stakes here are high.” Generation shifting is a shift in electricity production from higher-emitting to lower-emitting producers. 

Rick Whitbeck: Celebrating the 4th is going to cost us a lot more, because elections do have consequences

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Rick Whitbeck: Celebrating the 4th is going to cost us a lot more, because elections do have consequences

By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE

As we approach our nation’s 246th birthday, we should have a lot to celebrate.

Let’s start with the end of pandemic life.  But, Dr. Anthony Fauci would like a quick word …

Our economy is booming!  Yeah, I know inflation is at a 30-year high, but …

Gas prices are… OK, gas prices are their highest in history now, even adjusted for inflation.

At least there’s nothing that can ruin that cherished tradition of the summer cookout.

Think again.  Under the “What the Biden White House doesn’t want you to read” file we find this little firecracker from the U.S. Farm Bureau: 

Cost of July 4th Cookout 17% Higher Compared to a Year Ago.  

The Farm Bureau annually calculates the U.S. average for a 10-person cookout, and this year’s jump is the highest in their history.  Chicken breasts, hamburgers and all the sides, plus ice cream and lemonade, will run $69.68, instead of last year’s $59.50. Of course, this is no shock to anyone who spent any time in a grocery store over the last year.

However, we’re all old enough to remember that one year ago, the White House infamously celebrated a 16-cent savings for the exact same meal.

Alaskans know our cost of groceries and food is always significantly higher than our Lower-48 brethren pay at the checkout stand. Our food prices are approaching 40% higher year-over-year for numerous items in our urban areas, and nearly double the price for essential goods like milk, and bread in many rural regions across the state.

There’s a reason the average Alaskan is seeing double-digit percentages of increased costs for nearly everything this summer, compared to last: Joe Biden’s failures.  

From day one, Biden and his “leadership team” were hell bent on a forced transition away from traditional energy as fast as possible. By doing so, they surrendered an America-first energy agenda that had made the country energy independent and a net oil/gas exporter.  

Instead, Team Biden continues to attack oil and gas development at nearly every turn, which cost the industry nearly 30,000 jobs in 2021, according to a new report.  That’s 30,000 good-paying jobs; potentially now a drag on government budgets, rather than an uplifter of them.

Elections have consequences. We are living with the consequences of the 2020 election, but a new opportunity isn’t too far away. Alaskans will go to the polls in August and again in November, when we’ll have the opportunity to elect rational, pro-Alaska, pro-progress and pro-responsible candidates. We should reject those calling for an end to the energy jobs that drove our past, drive our present and will be foundational for our future.  

We’ll have a clear choice this election season between fear-over-facts candidates who use actual data and analysis instead of make-believe, hypocrisy and outright lies to move their political needle.

Make no mistake, America is and should remain the envy of the world. Not even the short-sighted policies of the Biden Administration (or any politician for that matter) can take that away. We do have a lot to celebrate, and let’s all take a moment to do so this weekend. 

Alaska, let’s make the right choice, and celebrate this July 4th knowing that if we and our friends and reasonable Alaskans do the same, brighter days, and lower costs are ahead of us.

Rick Whitbeck is the Alaska State Director for Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @PTFAlaska. 

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