Save Alaska’s roads Published March 3
Southbound traffic on the Glenn Highway flows across the new three lane Eagle River Bridge, at right, on Sept. 9, 2020. According to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Facilities approximately 55,000 commuters and commercial vehicles travel the highway each day. (Bill Roth / ADN archive)
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Print article What is the motor fuel tax? When you see that dollar number on the fuel pump screen, $53 to fill up your F-150, what are you paying for? The simple answer to that question is: two things. When you fill your gas tank, you are paying for the cost of the gasoline and, in my opinion more importantly, you are also paying taxes that go toward building and maintaining roads. In Alaska, 18.4 cents from every gallon of gasoline goes to the Federal Highway Trust Fund, and an additional eight cents per gallon goes to the Alaska General Fund. The federal money is then disbursed to state Departments of Transportation (DOT)
It’s important to remember that the one thing the Bank of Canada worries about above all else – and the one and only thing its monetary policy is expressly directed at controlling – is inflation
Alaska labor commissioner cancels proposed $450,000 fine for seafood processor over health and safety problems
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Print article The commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor personally intervened earlier this year to reject a proposed $450,000 fine against Copper River Seafoods despite an investigation that concluded the company disregarded health and safety regulations. The investigation was prompted by a COVID-19 outbreak last year that sickened more than three-quarters of the workers at an Anchorage processing plant and sent two people to the hospital. Investigators said Copper River acted negligently with its COVID-19 response and,
beyond that issue
, accused it of failing to fix known safety problems, including one that caused a man in Naknek to lose his arm during a gruesome conveyor belt accident in 2018.
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The right has attached itself to the latest casualty of the cancel culture wars: Late children’s book author Dr. Seuss.
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On Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization which owns the rights to the books and characters of Theodor Seuss Geisel better known as Dr. Seuss announced that it would no longer distribute or license a handful of Seuss books that include outdated racist caricatures and contradict their “mission” of “hope, inspiration, inclusion, and friendship.”
“[Dr. Seuss Enterprises], working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles:
Auditor-general raises long-running concern with B.C. government’s budget accounting VICTORIA Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Auditor-general Michael Pickup says he has long-running concerns with the way the British Columbia government counts the money it receives from other levels of government.
Pickup outlined Tuesday what he describes as a nine-year accounting difference of opinion his office has with B.C. over the way federal funds for capital projects are added to the province’s annual budget totals.