Read more about the article Transforming Alaska’s next 60 years: The inter-continental railway
Tankers Atalanta T and Atlantic Frontier offload a combined 525,000 barrels of jet fuel at the Port of Alaska on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The port has a total liquid fuel storage capacity of 3.4 million barrels, or over 140 million gallons. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Transforming Alaska’s next 60 years: The inter-continental railway

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2019/01/23/transforming-alaskas-next-60-years-the-inter-continental-railway/ Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of…

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Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s development plan for a very long time. This project was first promoted by Russian Count Sergei Witte in the 1890s.

Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s…

Continue ReadingAnyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s development plan for a very long time. This project was first promoted by Russian Count Sergei Witte in the 1890s.

In the past 42 years, I have helped build hundreds of industrial sites and I am currently in Levelock Alaska near Bristol Bay building a fish processing plant.

In the past 42 years, I have helped build hundreds of industrial sites and I am currently in Levelock Alaska near Bristol Bay building a fish processing plant. My most…

Continue ReadingIn the past 42 years, I have helped build hundreds of industrial sites and I am currently in Levelock Alaska near Bristol Bay building a fish processing plant.
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Driver cited for Glenn overpass collision

https://www.ktva.com/story/37799646/driver-cited-for-glenn-overpass collision?fb_action_ids=2039898792705059&fb_action_types=og.comments In 1986, I published an issue of the United Alaska Campaigner in an Anchorage Daily News special campaign issue that included a 20-foot bridge clearance law for Alaska.…

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In 1986, I published an issue of the United Alaska Campaigner in an Anchorage Daily News special campaign issue that included a 20-foot bridge clearance law for Alaska

In 1986, I published an issue of the United Alaska Campaigner in an Anchorage Daily News special campaign issue that included a 20-foot bridge clearance law for Alaska. Our politicians…

Continue ReadingIn 1986, I published an issue of the United Alaska Campaigner in an Anchorage Daily News special campaign issue that included a 20-foot bridge clearance law for Alaska
Read more about the article Why the media don’t get Detroit–and why it matters
A driver moves his "push taxi" along the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on November 8, 2014. For decades, Atlantic City was a popular vacation destination, with casinos, sandy beaches and the boardwalk running along the Atlantic Ocean. But New Jersey has fallen on hard times as four of its once-bustling gambling casinos have closed. Trump Plaza, built in 1984, formally closed its doors on September 16. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Why the media don’t get Detroit–and why it matters

With the continued low price of oil, is it possible that Anchorage will enter the list of cities that will have an emergency manager “austerity enforcer” like Detroit had? Or…

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