Gara and French Push Solution for Glen Alps and Powerline Pass Parking Problem
March 21, 2011
Legislators seek governor’s help inserting funds into the budget
Representative Les Gara and Senator Hollis French (both D-Anchorage) are asking Governor Sean Parnell for help solving the major parking problems at Glen Alps, a popular Anchorage recreation area. The legislators asked the governor to support their efforts to include funding for more parking in this year’s budget. This past summer, overflow parking was banned for the first time, blocking access to this area for thousands of Alaskans.
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Note from Rep. Gara: Good & Less Good Budget News; Que$tions Arising on Guv’s Oil Tax Rollback Bill; Anchorage Public Meetings Next Two Saturdays
March 16, 2011
Things are happening at a furious pace here. Actually, I just wanted to write that because I think “furious pace” sounds impressive. Please picture me with rolled up sleeves moving around furiously, even though I’d feel weird about doing that. I’ve never been big about rolling up work shirt sleeves.
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Note from Rep. Les Gara: The Bad, The Bad and the Uglier - Not a Good Week In Juneau, and More to Come
March 3, 2011
Rodney King once asked “can’t we all just get along?” Unfortunately in politics people have different visions. The prevailing one in the House right now isn’t mine. We can get along as friends. But our policy differences are significant.
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Petersen and Gara Announce “Truth in Alaska Oil Company Profits Act”
March 3, 2011
JUNEAU - Today Representatives Les Gara and Pete Petersen (both D- Anchorage) announced the “Truth in Alaska Oil Company Profits Act” to require Exxon to start revealing the profits they make in the State of Alaska. Exxon is the only major oil company that withholds that information.
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Alaska Democrats Push Federal Bureaucrats to Allow NPR-A Oil Development
March 1, 2011
JUNEAU – Today, fourteen Democratic members of the Alaska Legislature called on the Obama Administration to resolve permit issues that are delaying ConocoPhillips’ efforts to develop a new oil field in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A). Last year, the Army Corps of Engineers rejected Conoco’s permit application to build a bridge across the Coleville River that the company needs to access the new field just west of its Alpine oil field, the third largest in Alaska.
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