Missing Alaska health executive’s ‘death by accident’ verdict leaves questions surrounding helicopter crash Published 3 hours ago
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Print article Amy Belisle watched as her new husband’s helicopter tracking signal stopped over the open water of the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak last month. Belisle never heard from Andy Teuber again, she testified Wednesday at a presumed death hearing that added new details, but also new questions, to the mystery surrounding her husband’s disappearance. Teuber, at 52 one of Alaska’s most prominent executives after more than a decade as president and chairman of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, had recently resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct by a former co-worker.
Verdict leaves questions surrounding Alaska helicopter crash
A presumed death verdict allows family members to deal with the financial affairs of someone missing without physical proof of death
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Apr 29, 2021
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium former Board Chairman Andy Teuber, Aug. 12, 2020. (Loren Holmes / ADN)
A presumed death verdict allows family members to deal with the financial affairs of someone missing without physical proof of death
Zaz Hollander
Amy Belisle watched as her new husband’s helicopter tracking signal stopped over the open water of the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak last month.
Belisle never heard from Andy Teuber again, she testified Wednesday at a presumed death hearing that added new details, but also new questions, to the mystery surrounding her husband’s disappearance.
But in parts of the United States where oil is a significant part of the economy, divestment isn’t discussed. Divestment advocates in Texas have made little progress convincing the state s Permanent University Fund which owns mineral rights on more than two million acres of land to part ways with oil. Jim Johnsen, the former president of the University of Alaska system, said he can’t remember ever being asked by students or employees about divestment, despite the university’s strong ties to the oil industry. Two members of the University of Alaska system s Board of Trustees have experience working in the fossil fuel sector, and parts of the university system s revenue can be traced back to oil and gas.
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Val Van Brocklin
In 2020, the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission recommended a second look law providing that juveniles sentenced for crimes they committed when they were less than 18 be eligible for a parole hearing after serving 15 years. On March 29, Sen. Tom Begich introduced the recommended law as Senate Bill 114. Some context is helpful.
In the 1980s and 90s, America launched a tough-on-crime era. As a prosecutor in Alaska during those decades, I advanced it. It led to mass incarceration that overfilled our prisons. With 4.4% of the global population, America has nearly 25% of the world s prisoners - a rate four to seven times higher than other Western nations.
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