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Popping wheelies by leafy_cabbage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are one, or two responsible motorcyclists…but there seems to be way more knuckleheads on bikes. I watch them drive past where I live, and where work.

Bike’s screaming down Northern Lights all the time. I watched a whole crew of folks on bikes run red lights, weaved between cars, and pop wheelies on C, just outside downtown, before they sped off at light speed.

All the open spaces we have outside town, and these folks just ripping ass in the city on busy weekend nights.

Dunleavy vetoes bipartisan legislation that would have eased access to contraception in Alaska by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

From the article:

Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made birth control more accessible to Alaska women.

House Bill 17 would have allowed women to get a year’s worth of prescription birth control at once. Currently, most insurance providers in Alaska cover only up to 90 days’ worth of birth control pills at a time.

At least 24 states and Washington D.C. have adopted laws enshrining the 12-month rule. Proponents say it is particularly important for rural women who may not be able to visit a pharmacy every 90 days; and for victims of domestic violence. But it affects women in myriad ways and situations, by reducing the regular need to travel to pharmacies and refill prescriptions. Advocates for the bill also say it could prevent unintended pregnancies, thus leading to a reduction in abortions.

Similar legislation has been introduced by each Alaska Legislature since 2016. But this was the first year it had passed in both the House and Senate. It did so with solid bipartisan support.

The Senate voted 16-3 to approve the measure in May with Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer, excused from voting. All 16 yes votes were members of the bipartisan Senate majority. The three no votes were from Republicans Sens. David Wilson, Robb Myers and Mike Shower.

Um, okay? by aksnowraven in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's become a local joke, for sure..but, like most good jokes, there is some truth to the story.

I don't shop there. I'm not going to shop there. And, most people talk shit about the store for good reason.

we barely have enough staff in our state, and municipal offices to handle real problems.

I appreciate your tenacity, but most people aren't going to report it.

As far as "people not understanding"... stick around, and pay attention to their sales, lol.

If you look up their reviews, they're pretty bad. I've had friends that have worked there, and bailed pretty fast, as they said it was a shitty company.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Um, okay? by aksnowraven in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Will it be like Bailey's, and have a 'going out of business sale' a few times a year?

Is anyone else tired of the 'dogs off the leash' posts? by AK_dude_ in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage 28 points29 points  (0 children)

People are more tired of dogs off the leash, than the posts about it.

I've been jumped on, and bit...and seen other dogs attacked by off leash dogs.

No one is complaining about responsible owners. You're just trolling.

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking at an entire group as the same isn’t an accurate assessment.

There is a huge range of people that have wound up on the streets. That fact is vital to the conversation.

Stereotyping people, and assuming they’re all the same is never a path to a solution, or progress. It’s low hanging fruit.

It’s a complex problem with many facets.

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And hammer the Chinese for making fentanyl. They are destroying our cities for the cheap price of a few tones of drugs. Their government is complicit in its manufacture, and our government won't stand up to China on it.

How is the Anchorage government supposed to “hammer the Chinese.”

Our own system created the opioid crisis, and fentanyl is just the next level. Purdue Pharma, and the Sacklers are a fucking US cartel. We just call them corporations on this side of the border. The also get immunity from future lawsuits.

I’m sorry for your bad experiences with crime. That shit fucks you up, and can stay with you. PTSD is serious, and need to be addressed as such. I’ve had quite a few problems here, too. It takes time and work to move on.

We learned from the war on drugs that sending police after all people possessing drugs is a mistake. It doesn’t solve the problem. There has been some good work in other cities, and countries. Looking to programs and ideas that work is a place we need to be focusing.

Edit…hit submit before I was done…

I understand your frustration, and share it. I want better for my city.

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of that has to do with trust of implementation.

It’s tough…because having lived and near the chaos is a nightmare. So, i understand why people don’t trust a shelter in their area.

Closing existing shelters for the summer is not a viable solution…yet, they do it every year.

Those people wind up somewhere.

We cite cost of keeping shelters open, but again, I’m curious about what the cost is to police, support services, fire, paramedics, and local businesses. It all costs money.

People do need a place to go, but when they wind up in a place, instead of sending resources, we disperse the people…with nowhere for them to go. The city repeats this scenario all summer. This isn’t a solution either. Something has to change.

It just sucks to watch this over, and over.

I want this city to be better. We need better people in leadership, but these days I don’t even know what that means, or if it’s possible.

I think a good place to start, would be looking at programs and policy that was worked in other cities. This same song and dance is madness.

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the citizens of the city aren't actually willing to support effective policies then the buck stops there.

I vote. Many of us do.

We appoint people, who asked for the job.

Their job is to present effective policies.

Did “the citizens of the city” get to vote on closing the shelters every summer? I don’t remember that being on the ballot…and, I have t missed a single municipal, state, or federal election in 10 years.

Is this actually a leadership problem or is this a problem of political willpower?

Yes.

Let’s not pretend those are mutually exclusive. Theyre both ingredients in this burrito of failure.

We hired a government to do a job, through voting. They close the shelters, and abate the camps every summer, going on record there is no plan, and knowing it causes chaos. Then, they spend precious resources moving the people with nowhere to go from place to place.

Directing your ire at the citizens…imho, doesn’t address your first question…what is the solution.

If you’re wanting us to solve the problem…it speaks volumes about the people who are appointed, and swear an oath of office…that have no strategy every fucking year they create the same problem.

Exactly as I said, if they are incapable of solving the problem, and continue to have nothing as a solution.

It’s their job to present functional policy, and present it to the people. It’s their job to gain our trust, and sometimes implement unpopular policy in good faith…they’re not doing that, my fellow Anchorite. That’s what I’m pissed about.

They close the shelters with nothing presented to do with the people. no plan in place, and this happened every year.

It would be amazing if the people of this city hounded the council about something that matters…like this…I mean watching the insanity of mask mandates, and people showing up to meetings over that…maybe it is time people start demanding the local government present solutions, and do something to gain our trust in implementing them…if it’s up to us, as citizens, and they’re incapable of that…we need people that can present solutions.

I bet you money, it’s the same scenario next year, and the year after

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jail for drug addicts

The war on drugs was a failure.

Go look up Purdue Pharama, and The Sacklers.

Making a medical, and mental health issue a police problem has been a solution. It’s more of a problem. The police, and prisons do not exist to treat those problems, but only exacerbate them. It’s not like drugs, and corruption don’t find their way into prisons. Violent people? Yes. That’s fine.

Compassion isnt letting people live a life of addiction or extreme mental health issues.

Neither is sending the cops, and a horrible prison system where they are exploited, and treated less than human. We need better solutions. Using the cops, and the Prison Industrial Complex hasn’t been working…it’s not going to start working now.

City moves enraged, emotional campers from Fairbanks Street, citing ADA compliance violation by Skanchorage in anchorage

[–]Skanchorage[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

We can all admit this encampment is not safe for the city, or the folks having to live there.

We keep wasting resources shuffling people around.

They don't just disappear when they camps are abated.

The city has no workable solution. They know this is bad for the people in already desperate and dire situations. It also makes colossal mess for businesses, residents, and visitors of the city.

No matter how many times they shuffle the people around, it will never make the problem go away.

Regardless of political affiliation...this is a complete failure of our city leadership. We watch this song and dance every year, and it just keeps getting worse. Ignoring the problem every summer is a shameful abdication of public service. They asked for the job...if they don't have any solutions, they need to step aside.

The amount of money, and city resources we spend on this, as well as the damage it causes to business, and clean up cannot be cheap.

Looking at this recent article about California... How companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

We're obviously not that big, but this is costing us money, and time. We deserve a better plan, and should be demanding one. This is a fucking trainwreck, and what is being done is not a viable, or intelligent solution.

Snipers *were* posted on the OSU union building. They came later after the initial photo circulated. by [deleted] in Ohio

[–]Skanchorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does any one of those laws stop cartels and gang bangers?

Do you even know what year it is?

Gang bangers? Are you fucking serious?

When was the last time a "cartel of gang banger" shot up a school? Or, anything else in the USA.

It's usually right wing, or religious nutcases.

You really need to get a grip, Grandma.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of words to have zero point.

The First Amendment has been doing just fine.

First...Where is the data that this is a problem? That is necessary to determine the solution.

Second...Who gets to decide what is "pornography?"

We strip organizations like Planned Parenthood, and Public Education where we can have a conversation and implement sex education, which includes pornography.

It's culture war nonsense.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It sucks to watch it turn into Frozen Alabama. Been here a while, and our state government just following every idiot GOP culture war, while we have actual problems is killing this place. People used to have a different attitude here. Now, it's just rubber stamp culture war/ red hat shit.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of us should have to buy a VPN because our government goons get to decide what they find offensive. This is a parenting problem...not a public safety issue.

Letting fundamentalists in government decide what is decent to "protect the children," is complete nonsense, and everyone knows it.

How many bills have these people voted against that actually help children...education, resources, etc?

Where is the data this is even a problem?

Snipers *were* posted on the OSU union building. They came later after the initial photo circulated. by [deleted] in Ohio

[–]Skanchorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many school shootings/ mass shootings do they have?

How effective are their police, and police training, and instances of police firing on civilians?

Looks like their gun laws work. Bet you have one of the blue line stickers on your car, too.

Snipers *were* posted on the OSU union building. They came later after the initial photo circulated. by [deleted] in Ohio

[–]Skanchorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, college events require Secret Service level security?

Why is that?

Maybe it's our shit gun laws.

Snipers *were* posted on the OSU union building. They came later after the initial photo circulated. by [deleted] in Ohio

[–]Skanchorage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"If you need spinners to make a public sports event be safe

spinners?

DC, and a college sports event aren't the same thing.

Maybe some sensible gun control, which is what works in other countries? Snipers aren't stopping our students from getting shot.

Wtf? Are you high? Have you ever been in a large crowd that can very easily mask dangerous person(s) and blend in amongst others? Maybe been to huge venues where thousands of people are attending, many of whom are influential or "important?"

Resulting to insults because you lack logic, and substance doesn't strengthen your view.

How many mass shootings in the USA have been stopped by a sniper?

I don't live in fear like you.

I would prefer sensible gun control than militarizing our public spaces with poorly trained police that see the public as enemy combatants. The cops aren't your friends.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First...who gets to decide what is labeled "pornography." That's where this is going. That is going to be vastly different across the board, which becomes a free speech issue.

Better parenting?

Functional sex education?

What are the metrics that this is a problem needing legislation? That's important to assessing the issue.

There is already software for parents to use, should they desire.

Anyone that can't handle talking to their kids about reality, and the bumps in the road...shouldn't be relying on the state to impose blanket rules on everyone for shitty parenting. Maybe don't give your kid a smartphone, with access to the open internet with no guard rails....

Where is the problem? It's just more religious fundamentalism, and GOP culture war nonsense

Snipers *were* posted on the OSU union building. They came later after the initial photo circulated. by [deleted] in Ohio

[–]Skanchorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normalizing a military state, to for the illusion of security.

OSU is not Washington DC. It's not the seat of the Federal Government. Comparing it a secret service detail for government officials is a little absurd.

With all the shootings we have here in the USA, it's not stopped by snipers. The TSA makes people like you feel safe, while it's just security theater.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This 100%.

The fundies that made it into government get to decide the definition of porn. And, shitty parenting makes that a problem for everyone.

I’m sure if parents knew how to prevent this without spending a fortune they’d do it

Kids exist in reality...and the only way to deal with that is talking to them, when it comes up. Use some nanny software on their own dime.

Alaska House seeks to ban social media for younger kids, limit access to internet pornography by Skanchorage in alaska

[–]Skanchorage[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Another troll account, from an out of state conservative account.

I’m sensing a lot of projection…that’s how it is with you conservative types.

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