"We're giving away finite resources when we should be trying to get the maximum value for them, " said Jay Cross, a retired Alaska Guardsman who is a volunteer for Democratic presidential nominee Sen.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A Shell oil-drilling ship that ran aground near a remote Alaska island has been refloated, officials said early Monday.
Separately, in August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, signed a bill allowing TransCanada Alaska to build a 1, 715-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to Alberta, Canada.
H. (pop. 2, 600) looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.
For example, Susan Godfrey of Morristown, New Jersey, was recently returning home from a trip to Alaska, which required a stop and change of planes in Seattle.
By 7 a.m. four enormous white ships carrying up to 9, 000 people have docked in Skagway, a town in southeast Alaska with a year-round population of 862.
Hunkered down in the hills just 16 kilometers south of the Canadian border, Colebrook, New Hampshire (pop. 2, 600), looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.
All they achieved was a boycott by ferry operators and a lawsuit from Alaska, eventually dropped as a peace-offering.
He sees a great future for Alaska if the state will reform a problematic tax code and appears confident that Alaska politicians understand their interests clearly and will meet industry halfway.
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By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.
Frontier shareholders got a 57% dividend decrease, while Alaska announced a 75% cut.
In mid-2006, a BP pipeline burst in Alaska, resulting in a 200, 000-gallon spill which covered at least two acres of tundra.
Besides 100 interceptor missiles at a single site in Alaska, the Clinton Administration plan calls for a potential second site in North Dakota, with up to 150 more interceptors, as well as the option of supplementing both sites with ship-based defenses that could also provide some measure of defense for U.S. allies.
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And a caveat: Yes, Palin has her fans, but most political analysts see a potential presidential run by the former Alaska governor as a non-starter.
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Another governor, first-term governor, I've heard a lot mentioned is Sarah Palin, a female from Alaska.
To locate emerging artifacts quickly, Dixon and a colleague developed a digital map covering a portion of Alaska.
"Apparently, the media knew about it before he did, " Inouye said, adding he had just spoken to Stevens, a Republican from Alaska.
In such an event, the California Creditor could then file a petition in Alaska federal court to remove the action from the Alaska state court.
About a quarter of Alaska's oil and gas royalties goes into an entity called the Permanent Fund, the assets of which are managed by investment professionals.
As a result, it contends, 2005 is the earliest the United States could have even a very limited defensive capability deployed at a site in Alaska.
Shirtless, grinning and bespectacled, Jon Hendren answered my questions with the brutal honesty of a man who helped briefly exile a popstar to Alaska.
As a pilot for Alaska Airlines I can tell you that we are working to get approval to use the iPAD for every phase of flight.
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Practicalities aside though, we do have a fascination with Alaska.
Song, Richards and colleagues studied waves generated by small earthquakes in the southern Atlantic Ocean that passed through the core to a seismograph in Alaska where they were measured.
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The British doctor, whose work inspired the movie Awakenings as well as Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, is still seeing patients in his adopted home of New York.
They found that when earthquakes struck in nearly the same place years or decades apart, seismic waves generated by the later quakes arrived in Alaska a little sooner than they had the time before.
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"We were able to tie it down to procedures that either were not in place or had not been fully implemented at BP in their management system, " said Allison Iversen, a coordinator at Alaska's Petroleum Systems Integrity Office.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster followed other failures including a leak from a pipeline in Alaska in 2006 and the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005, which killed 15 people in one of the US's worst industrial accidents of recent years.
Meanwhile, in a scandal that rocked Alaska's political establishment, Palin moved quickly to link a key figure to her defeated predecessor, Frank Murkowski, the documents show.
Forty-seven percent of the voters surveyed have a negative impression of the Alaska governor, while just 38 percent see her in a positive light.
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