Who Really Writes This Thing?
I often get asked, “Who writes your newsletters?”
People are deathly cynical of politics, and who can blame them? The system is impersonal and insincere, practically by design. Politicians are insulated by an exquisite apparatus of spokespeople, press releases, and punditry.
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Dear Friends and Neighbors,
The Alaska Legislature does two things: we write the budget and we write the law. I’m trying to break down the recent legislative session: last time I focused on the budget; this time I’ll focus on the law. Just what kind of legislation are those yahoos over in Juneau passing?!
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What exactly did those yahoos over in Juneau do with your money?!
I’m writing a couple of newsletters to help make sense of the recently concluded legislative session, and the budget was a big part of it. After all, the Alaska Legislature basically does two things: we write laws and we write the budget. It’s good to know how much money we have and how much we’re spending.
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Some stuff in the legislature you just can’t make up. If you haven’t already read about it, I won’t recount what happened, because the professionals – Anchorage Daily News’s Rich Mauer and Alaska Public Radio’s Alexandra Gutierrez - have already done an excellent job.
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Bycatch be Bygone
I love halibut. You love halibut. We all love halibut — including sport, charter, commercial, and subsistence users, who all sometimes quarrel over who gets to catch how much halibut. Sometimes voices are raised and sharp words exchanged, but it’s because we all love halibut.
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