There are still a number of people on our Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly who would like to get rid of our elected Borough Mayor and have the Assembly hire a Borough Manager to run the day to day operation of our Borough government, with the Assembly in complete control.
Are you getting tired of all the half-truths and scare tactics of the opponents of the Pebble Mine in South West Alaska? It is indeed a shame how far these extreme environmentalists will stoop to in order to sway public opinion. They are supporting these half-truths and scare tactics with the millions of dollars they [...]
Natural Gas is the most important single asset we have in Alaska. We have 37 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 478 million barrels of natural gas liquids on the North Slope. It all belongs to Alaskans, you and I and every other Alaskan resident, but unless we build a pipeline to make it [...]
Think About It…… June 16, 2010
The No Fly List is a list, created and maintained by the United States government, of people who are not permitted to board a commercial aircraft for travel in or out of the United States. And may God help you if for some unknown reason you ever get on it.
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There is one thing almost all of us can agree on! The education of our children is the single most important challenge that we must all face together. That’s why we have spent millions of dollars here in our Kenai Peninsula Borough to build dozens of school facilities, buildings, classrooms, gymnasiums, swimming pools, sports fields, [...]
The Soldotna community now has something that has been long overdue….a community playground that everyone can enjoy. Being a parent myself, I know my family will visit the playground during the warmer months. We were there for the opening on Sunday night. And, just like everyone else who was at the opening, it was a [...]
When our Borough School Board fails to review every budget request from their Superintendent and Central Office Staff and make the appropriate cuts to reflect the actual needs of each school in the District rather than all the dreams and wants that each school always has they are not serving the taxpayers in the Borough [...]
One of the things on the Kenai we count on but almost always take for granted are the roads, streets and highways we use everyday. Our outstanding system of surface transportation nationwide is what makes our modern society possible and our life style the envy of most every nation in the world today.
Here on the [...]
The question everyone seems to be asking is “Why does our Kenai Peninsula Borough School District have so much money left over at the end of every fiscal year? And it appears to be a pretty good question, one that Borough Taxpayers need to be concerned about.
Here is the way the system works. The School [...]
If they haven’t already knocked on your door, it won’t be long before a United States Census Taker does. The Constitution demands that the Federal Government to count all of us once every ten years. So, this is 2010 and this is a census year.
The big question many of us have is “What are all [...]