Alaska Governor Looks Towards Gambling Legalization To Fix Budget Deficit
Gov. Mike Dunleavy Commissioned A Consultant To Run A Study On Gambling s Feasibility In The State
by Steve Schult
| Published: Jul 12, 2021
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the study will look at the potential for legal gambling, including casinos, sports betting and a state lottery.
Most forms of gambling are currently illegal within the state’s borders. Class III gaming, which includes most traditional Las Vegas-style casino gambling options, is prohibited, which is why there are no commercial casinos. There are two tribal casinos, however, but they are glorified bingo halls, limited to just Class II gaming. Those tribal properties are the only forms of legal gambling.
Last week a video showing a high-school teacher s remarks on police killings was posted online.
At one point she said George Floyd should ve obeyed the police and told her class to always do so.
The teacher was placed on administrative leave within days of the video being posted.
A high-school teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been placed on administrative leave over remarks she made during a class discussion on police killings, KUAC reported.
A video of the discussion which happened during a virtual class meeting was posted to YouTube last week.
While school officials have not named the teacher, she is addressed as Ms. Gardner in the video, and a Connie Gardner is listed as a special-education teacher on the Lathrop High School website.
Katie Hurley, Alaska political figure dating back to territorial days, has died at age 99 Published February 22
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Print article Katie Hurley, a longtime Mat-Su political figure and a participant in the drafting of Alaska’s Constitution, died Sunday in Portland, Oregon, at age 99, her daughter said. Hurley got her start in politics when she joined the office of Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening in 1940. She became secretary of the territorial state and was chief clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955 and 1956. Hurley served as president of the Alaska Board of Education, executive director of the state Women’s Commission, state Senate secretary for five sessions and on Gov. William Egan’s statehood transitional staff.
Print article State health officials debunked some COVID-19 vaccination claims after a misleading description of vaccine reactions among Alaskans spread across social media this week. On Wednesday, the day after the Alaska Watchman published a piece with the headline, “At least five Alaskans died and 111 suffered adverse reactions after COVID vaccines,” the state’s top doctor made it clear that no Alaskans in fact, no one in the U.S. have died because they got vaccinated. “The CDC came out very clearly this week and said that there have been no reported deaths that they have attributed to the vaccine,” the state’s chief medical officer, Dr. Anne Zink, said on a call with the public Wednesday.
Politicians Who Lost All Their Money Shutterstock
By Thomas A Brown/Jan. 13, 2021 3:56 pm EDT
Being the president of the United States of America comes with some financial perks. The greatest private plane on (or above) Earth, your own theme song played by a Marine Corps band, $400,000 a year, a $50,000-a-year expense account, and (per Business Insider) a pretty sick retirement plan that includes lifetime Secret Service protection. On top of that, as the Street explains, modern presidents can also be assured of multi-million dollar book contracts or hundred-thousand-dollar speaking engagements.
Of course, not all presidents had access to these benefits, not all politicians are the president, and some politicians just shouldn t be allowed near currency. While of course the minority (heck, today almost half of Congressmembers are millionaires, according to ABC), some of America s esteemed elected officials have covered themselves in far more debt than they have