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The Sunday Minefield – May 9, 2021
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! The constitutional session limit is just ten days away, and there is no end in sight. Legislative skits happened this weekend. Great job to all the staff who put them on. Not only were they really funny, it was the first time things felt completely normal. I attended both nights, hence the late column today. The Anchorage mayoral runoff election concludes on Tuesday. The new mayor’s term will begin on July 1.
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Juneau Representative Sara Hannan Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The State House of Representatives Friday voted to add about 250 acres to Funter Bay Marine Park near Juneau. It was approved 31 to 8.
Juneau Representative Sara Hannan was spurred to sponsor House Bill 10 to protect the social and historical significance of Unangax Cemetery by adding it to the park.
When the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WWII, the Unangax people were forcibly removed from the Pribilof Islands and interned in Southeast Alaska during 1942. Some were sent to Funter Bay near Juneau.
Representative Hannan said during her floor comments that there were two camps there. The buildings were decrypted, freshwater was limited, the sanitary conditions were deplorable. And from the beginning, that year, young and old began to suffer illnesses and died. There are 32 recognized graves that have been maintained by the families for 79 years.
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Alaska Congressman Don Young Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Alaska Congressman Don Young told attendees of the Southeast Legislative Conference that they should file a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control at a Zoom webinar on Wednesday.
Young was referring to the CDC protocols imposed on the cruise ship industry during the pandemic. If I was Southeast Conference and all the communities, I d immediately try and organize and file a lawsuit against the CDC, said Young. Because they re being prejudiced against one industry.
He mentioned that airplanes fly with passengers, and the CDC could let a cruise ship go with passengers, too. Young acknowledged that there should be safety restrictions in place for crew and patrons of cruises, such as vaccinations and COVID testing.
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Anchorage Assemblymember Allard defends “FUHRER” and “3REICH” license plates
On Sunday, Anchorage Assemblymember and Alaska State Commission for Human Rights Commissioner Jamie Allard defended Alaska vanity license plates “FUHRER” and “3REICH,” arguing on Facebook that the words are innocuous translations of German terms for “leader or guide” and “realm.” The word Fürher is strongly associated with Adolf Hitler, who served as Führer of Germany from 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, and who presided over the Holocaust. The term “Third Reich” was the Nazi Party’s official designation for its fascist regime. Both terms are heavily incorporated into neo-Nazi and white supremacist subcultures in the United States and abroad.