From Rep. Beth Kerttula: Wishing You Happy Holidays!
Wishing you happy holidays! From Beth, Jim and Cody
Read More →From Rep. Berta Gardner: Alaska Students Can Lift Your Heart
When the legislature is in Juneau, each Floor session is opened with a prayer. The person offering the prayer, whether one of our own members or an invited guest, customarily opens with words something like this: “With the deepest respect for the beliefs of all who are present here, I offer this prayer.”
Read More →Note from Rep. Gara: 2nd Annual Holiday Laptops for Foster Youth Drive - Improving One Life At A Time
This week we are launching our second annual “Laptops for Foster Youth Drive”. Since last year we have matched over 60 youth with good, late model used and new laptops. Youth have used these laptops for school, to transport pictures of their families and friends, and to lead a life that more closely resembles those of their peers outside of foster care.
If you have a quality used, or new laptop you’d like to donate, please let us know, and we’ll help you make someone’s life better! The criteria for the laptops we are looking for is at the end of the e-mail. If you want to donate funds to purchase one or more laptops, we can help arrange that too.
Read More →Rep. Guttenberg’s Legislative Report: Meeting Tonight 8pm; Gathering Feedback- Denali Borough;
Warm temperatures and high winds have brought minor chaos to the Interior. For weather information please visit 511 Alaska by dialing 511 or visiting their website where you can access up-to-date road conditions.
Thank you to our road and emergency crews who have worked around the clock to keep us safe.
** Fairbanks Area Constituent Meeting Thursday December 8th TONIGHT **
Read More →Note from Rep. Gara: Hurdle Cleared: Oil Development in National Petroleum Reserve Moving Forward
Who knows what impact public comment ever has? You hope it matters, so you comment. That’s why this spring I and others wrote an array of federal officials to say that ConocoPhillips’ proposed development in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A) was in Alaska’s and the nation’s interests. When the US Army Corps of Engineers effectively blocked oil development there by denying a needed bridge permit, I was concerned. I spoke to my colleagues about writing a letter explaining that production was falling on the North Slope, and access to this area, reserved for oil development, was crucial to our efforts to stem and hopefully reverse the decline in North Slope oil production.
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