Crime and punishment - Would draconian DUI sentences deter drunk drivers in Alaska?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:33 PM AKST
Lori Phillips, a South Anchorage resident in her mid-50s, was arrested for DUI in March of last year, after police found she’d driven off the road in the early afternoon, beer sitting on the seat beside her. This was her fourth DUI charge; out of the previous three, she’d pled one down for a 1983 arrest, but was convicted in 1986 and 2005.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:33 PM AKST
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Transparency or brick wall?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:33 PM AKSTThe city of Anchorage wants to charge people who request public records for time the city legal department spends figuring out which part of the request is okay to release and which parts need to be kept confidential. But state law currently doesn’t allow local governments to assess those charges, so city leaders are asking the Alaska Legislature this year to change the law.
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Dodging civic duties
Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:20 AM AKSTHere are five types of people who get out of jury duty: hand-raisers, ass kissers, people who doze off during jury selection, know-it-alls and people who otherwise seem so eager to get on the jury the prosecutor suspects they have an agenda.
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Some of you are getting off too easy (well, sort of...)
Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:15 AM AKSTCity attorneys would like Alaska’s drunk driving laws cleaned up a bit. They say not all DUI sentences are following a law that says first-time offenders should have a breathalyzer-triggered ignition lock on their vehicle for 12 months after the offender has their driving privileges reinstated. (The device prevents a car from starting until someone blows a deep breath of alcohol-free air into its plastic tube.)
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:33 PM AKSTThe day this issue hits the streets, February 4, conservative KFQD talker Dan Fagan is hosting a “town hall” meeting at the Sheraton which was supposed to feature panelists including gubernatorial contenders Ralph Samuels (a Republican) and Ethan Berkowitz (Democrat), as well as school district Superintendent Carol Comeau, Lieutenant Governor Craig Campbell, and a few others. Fagan’s subject, according to the website where you can buy tickets for $25 a pop, is “The Alaska Economy—Closed For Business.”
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:39 PM AKST
Flashlight missed Governor Sean Parnell’s speech last Friday morning at Meet Alaska, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance’s annual energy conference, held at the Sheraton. But by all accounts it was a fairly conciliatory speech, at least toward ExxonMobil, which recently beat the state in court when a judge ruled the state was in the wrong when it voided Exxon’s Point Thomson leases. Sean’s attempt at pacifying was probably a good thing; this wasn’t a particularly friendly audience for the Palin-and-then-Parnell administration (or Democrats, for that matter). The Alliance is the trade association representing some 400-plus businesses providing products and services to the oil, gas and mining industries, and between the Point Thomson lease litigation and the 2007 oil and gas tax overhaul known as Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES), our state government’s pretty unpopular with this crowd.
