Monday: I’d like to Thank You; Zack Wants to Hear Your Ideas
Dear Neighbors: I hope you can join me Monday so I can thank you for sharing your ideas, and letting me represent you these past many years. We’ll have…
Holiday Foster Youth Laptop & Gift Drives; Earthquake-Hit Local Businesses
Dear Friends and Neighbors: I hope you are well after a week of very unwelcome house and building shakes. I haven’t been a big fan of them, but now…
Employee Resignation Request Wrong, Offensive, Likely Unconstitutional
Dear Friends and Neighbors: I, like many of you, was unhappy to hear of the memo from the Governor-Elect’s Chief of Staff asking for hundreds of resignations of employees who…
Rep Gara Earns National Award from Federal Government for Foster Care Work
Anchorage – Next month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services will honor Representative Les Gara (D-Anchorage) for his career of work to improve the opportunity and lives…
Brett Kavanaugh Not “An Inspired Choice” for the Supreme Court
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I believe in a United States Supreme Court that does justice, not one filled with biased party loyalists. And especially at this time in American history,…
Don’t Forget To Vote Tomorrow (Tuesday): Alaska’s State and Congressional Primary Election
Dear Friends and Neighbors: Don’t forget that tomorrow (Tuesday) is our state and federal Primary Election. I scheduled a fishing day tomorrow – and almost forgot! So I’m about to…
Tied Together: Education, the Economy & a Needed Fiscal Plan
Dear Friends and Neighbors: Republicans, Democrats and Independents, many of great intelligence, and sadly fewer with great desires to reach compromise, need to get their act together. Fast. Today’s Alaska…
Rep. Gara, Facing Foster Care Launch Back to School Laptop Drive for Foster Youth
Rep. Les Gara, and Facing Foster Care in Alaska founder, Amanda Metivier, have launched a Back To School drive to put laptops into the hands of Alaskan foster youth to…
Wrong Mine, Wrong Place: Comment Before the Deadline
Some politicians are dancing around the Pebble Mine. There’s nothing to dance about. While I can say the short truth – that this is the wrong mine in the…
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