NewsOne Featured Video Source: Pool / Getty On Thursday, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor the counting of votes and potentially challenge the count. The RNC also confirmed that attorneys will be stationed at “every single target processing center where mail […]
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In 2008, the 25th Legislature unanimously approved the Renewable Energy Fund (REF) competitive grant program. More than 15 years later, REF remains an integral part of Alaska’s toolkit for exploring, developing, and integrating renewable energy in Alaska. By statute, REF is administered by the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA), a public corporation of the State of […]
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Dear Board Members, We are writing to express our concern regarding HEA’s inaction on finding both short- and long-term solutions to the energy crisis our communities face. Reserves of natural gas in Cook Inlet are declining, and the only company still willing to extract them (Hilcorp) is poised for an exit from the region. The […]
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This week, the City of Homer is sending representatives to the State Legislature to ask for additional funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Homer Harbor expansion feasibility study project, and the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society is preparing to send lobbyists to Washington, D.C. The study we started last year ran out of funding […]
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The Permanent Fund dividend is important to a lot of Alaska households, but so is education, public safety, ports and harbors, roads and more. The state House did the right thing last week in rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment that would have elevated the PFD to a higher status than any other need in the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Ted Soqui / Getty It’s still unclear when – or if – O.J. Simpson actually said the words that rapper Jay-Z attributed to him in his 2017 Grammy-nominated song “The Story of O.J.” But the words stuck and came to symbolize the complicated relationship the Black community had with Simpson, who […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Rebecca Naden – PA Images / Getty Listen: We really didn’t need any more examples of Fox News being the No. 1 media outlet for old, curmudgeonly white people who think everyone is too overly sensitive these days but also wet their tighty-whities over Black national anthems and people kneeling during […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: ISAAC BREKKEN / Getty UPDATED: 3:30 p.m., April 11, 2024 — Former NFL legend OJ Simpson has died at the age of 76, according to his family, who issued a brief statement on social media. Simpson had been battling prostate cancer in recent years and his health took a turn for […]
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Last month, I traveled to Anchorage for a Maternal Child Health Conference. This conference brought together maternal health experts and advocates to discuss the heart-wrenching maternal health crisis in our country and what we’re doing to promote better outcomes. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among high-income countries. In 2021, 1,205 women […]
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The mission of the Alaska Department of Health’s Division of Public Assistance (DPA) is to promote self-sufficiency by providing essential living expenses to those in need, with a focus on assisting Alaskans in achieving independence. DPA oversees assistance programs mandated by both Congress and the Alaska State Legislature. As commissioner of the Department of Health, […]
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Community. This word resonated with me throughout the evening of our West Homer Elementary Talent Show on March 28. It highlighted for me the power of our local learning community. Red Asselin and our Parent-Teacher Organization had the idea to shift the show this year to be entirely student produced. Parents spent countless hours with […]
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NewsOne Featured Video New College of Florida’s board of trustees, including conservative activist Christopher Rufo, on the screen, lower right, at a Feb. 28, 2023, meeting at which they voted to abolish the office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst; Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst; Douglas Rice, UMass […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Here is a demonstrable truth that does not need to include an “allegedly” or any other type of disclaimer: Donald Trump is a xenophobic bigot. And now that the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has become a hot topic and a thing of major concern […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty In late 2021, Donald Trump and Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced the company would be launching the former president’s Truth Social platform. It was supposed to be the future of conservative social media—a digital gathering place for right-wingers to spread white nationalist nonsense in […]
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This is a perspective on the debate about funding our Alaska education system, not as a politician, but as a parent, a lifelong Alaskan and a person looking at the future of our great state. There is now a debate about how much funding we should spend on educating our children. Many of the arguments […]
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A letter to lawmakers on education funding Last week, I sent the following in an email to Reps. Sarah Vance and Ben Carpenter in response to what I heard spoken on the House Floor during debate on the governor’s veto of S.B. 140. I wanted to share this publicly, and encourage *all of us* to […]
Read MoreI recently became aware of the new tariff changes which would charge us for our seine skiffs. I made a post about this on social media and got an unprecedented amount of traffic on this post and as it became a community conversation, I became aware that we as fishermen and Homer residents have similar […]
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What a season! Homer Middle School had 38 wrestlers join wrestling, way more than we have had in a long time. Whether students joined and realized wrestling wasn’t for them, had their season cut short by injury, or finished out the season with more wins or more losses, we are proud to have coached EVERY […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: ALAIN JOCARD / Getty Last year, Elon Musk, the X CEO who professes to be a champion of free speech, threatened to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an independent non-profit research organization that found that hate, racism and disinformation had increased substantially on the platform that used to be Twitter […]
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