Comments by polarmark
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Posted on October 10 at 4:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
we all have to tighten our belts. everyones standard of living is falling. the price of energy is way up. this is a wonderful teaching opportunity to teach the kids what green economics does to a society. suck it up and learn how to cut corners and expenses like the rest of us.
Posted on October 9 at 4:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)
nah jmailman... tourism doesn't really do that much for us. most people come visit via some tour company that base themselves outside the state. most people who work in the tourism economy don't really make a living wage. most our economy and revenue is produced by energy production and government. the state of alaska actually can't accommodate even a million more people dispite it's actual size because of lack of infrastructure. there just isn't the roads, electrical lines, sewage and all the trappings of life that americans insist on available.... and of course... no bridges to nowhere, that actually if they were build be quickly become bridges to somewhere.
Posted on October 8 at 7:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
can she even skate?
Posted on October 8 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
there are no indigenous reptiles (including snakes) in alaska. there are no poisonous spiders.
don't be so quick to judge bluecomet. he is just voicing frustrations many of us feel here at times. he just didn't do it very diplomatically. we have a small population. so any immigration bubble represents a relatively high percentage of the population being new. and we do have our booms and busts so we get bursts of population on occassion. i guess because they don't know any different these newcomers sometimes seem to want to advocate rebuilding their new society towards a model of what they just ran away from. not good. i would ask that newcomers take the time to learn about the slight differences here and give them a try. we don't want alaska to become like another california or east coast or else we'd go live there. and sometimes folks from here do just that. it can be both physically and mentally exhausting living here battling the environment.
Posted on October 8 at 5:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
how about.... if you do move to alaska, welcome. but please, leave the lower 48 ways and ideas at the border. most of them don't work here anyway. ?? i'm originally from south dakota. i was raised mostly in seattle. i came to alaska when i was 19 (jan. 1980), on a floating (fish) processor. i knew at first sight that alaska (was kodiak island) was going to be my permanent home. i left the old culture behind and readily adopted this new one. and it has done my soul wonders.
i think the first snow was september 29th.
Posted on October 8 at 10:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
i don't think the democrats will be in the majority in either the house or the senate for very long.
Posted on October 8 at 8:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
ok joe, i voted for you based on one commercial i heard on the radio. the one where you seemed to say that you will fight the EPA. i hate the EPA. go get them!
congratulations tammie. i know you don't remember me but we used to work together with the salvation army raising money for their charitable activities. i remember from that experience that you are a wonderful caring person.
Posted on October 7 at 6:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
fairbanks is kind of in a box; airport way, university ave, college rd and steese hwy. but fairbanks really is labeled "squarebanks", usually by people who are from anchorage, because compared to anchorage, fairbanks is small quiet and boring. also i think the people here are less like to follow new trends and fads coming up out of the lower 48 than anchoragites are. thus, we are square.... hicks... rednecks... whatever. but when i came to alaska first in 1980, i wasn't looking for big hip cities.
we here in the fairbanks area call anchorage, "los anchorage".
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Posted on October 10 at 9:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i believe lynx are all we have.
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