SOL in SOLdotna, Alaska

Addendum/Correction: I've left the original post intact, but Micciche's bill might just exclude clergy, which is still unfortunate because they are already protected. This is a bill that is in se...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2016/01/micciches-freedom-to-discriminate-and.html

The budget deal was close - a compromise passed the Alaska House of Representatives. Democrats gave up on Medicaid expansion, but held fast on education, the ferry system, negotiated pay raises a...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2015/06/call-to-duty-peter-micciche-and-gary.html

Petting party (pic from the Juneau Empire) I hope that no one is surprised. Republicans have long been enamored with the concept of cutting taxes to the point that there is no money left for...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2015/05/starving-beast-while-feeding-piggies.html

OK, I suck at graphic design, but you get the point. Their one job as legislators is to pass a real budget, you know a balanced one that lasts through the fiscal year. But the best the Repub...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2015/05/micciche-olson-chenault-and-republican.html

Yeah, right here in river city those who would dare call the holy metal tree-like symbol of corporate greed (and donated by ConocoPhillips) a 'Holiday Tree' rather than by its God-given name, Chr...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/12/micciche-saves-persecuted-christians-in.html

SOL avoids watching TV and now that the Citizen's United ruling permits unlimited secret money to be dumped into election ads, I'm sure most of you can't wait for the election to be done and the ...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/10/picking-and-choosing.html

Tom's Dirty Laundry (Maricopa Monitor) Like many of you, I know very little about Tom Bearup, Mike Navarre's opponent in the upcoming Kenai Borough's mayoral race.  A quick little search on...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/09/bearup-with-me.html

Wondering which US senate candidate to support in the upcoming primary?  Maybe this Q and A can help! 1) WHAT CANDIDATE WAS DISCIPLINED BY THE FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH FOR BREAKING INT...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/08/joe-miller-king-of-welfare-queens.html

HB 77, the the unsuccessful pro-development, anti-public input legislation sponsored by Gov Parnell last year is back in revision this year. Cathy Giessel, who partially represents the northern K...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/03/cathy-giessel-to-alaskans-shut-up-and.html

It used to be when someone bribed or paid off a politician, money was stuffed in a paper sack and passed off in some back room.  But Alaska now operates a corporatocracy, a government run by cor...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/02/peter-micciche-direct-deposit-bribery.html

So, who cares that the state operating budget will have over a $2Billion deficit next year? Who cares if we will have to start tapping our savings to balance that budget? Who cares if SB 21 wil...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2014/01/prince-peters-game-of-thrones.html

He was for it before he was against it, but Gov Sean Parnell and cronies, despite huge budget deficits and declining oil productions, will get a nice pay raise for 2014 unless the legislature act...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/12/pay-raids-for-parnell-and-co.html

I don't think that anyone with a shred of integrity is at all surprised by the recent budget fiasco Alaska's republicans have brought about. Let's start with Gov Parnell's oil tax giveaway spea...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/12/oily-politics-breaking-bank-in-alaska.html

I'm willing to accept that reasonable people can disagree about most things and I think it's a good to be open to divergent ideas. On Monday evening, state senator Peter Micciche held a town-hall...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/12/hb-77-fast-tracking-destruction-of.html

Micciche's New Ride The ink is barely dry on SB 21, the Oil Tax restructuring bill passed by the slimmest margins this last legislative session and someone has been driving around all Soldot...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/06/pimp-my-ride-micciches-first-payoff.html

Just when you think that things down in Juneau couldn't get any more atrocious, Mike 'COS' Chenault had a personal $74,000 item approved by the House - a "capitol stair landing " AKA a covered ou...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/04/smokin-in-good-ol-boys-room-pay-cuts.html

Being an Alaskan political blogger has become a full-time occupation since the current legislative session began in January. Our local republicans have been accused of conflicts of interest (Micc...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-alaskan-gop-party-of-bear-shit-crazy.html

Jack Roderick, long-time Alaskan public servant, oil industry analyst and author of Crude Dreams which examines the often slimly roll that the gas and oil industry has had with Alaskan politician...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/04/crude-dreamscrude-schemes.html

I hope you all got to read Bert Stedman's Compass piece in today's ADN. If not take a few minutes to read it here . Stedman, the Alaskan state senator from Craig and a Republican, is an account...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/03/another-republican-makes-sense.html

To nobody's surprise, the Alaska senate passed the massive tax break bill for the major oil companies.  The vote that will give these companies billions of dollars of extra profits was predictab...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/03/micciche-doing-something-stupid-in.html

Click to enlarge this COS Mike Chenault is a hack-blogger's dream and this past weekend, has shown Alaskans what he is made of:  A steamy pile of Shit! Here's what happened.  The secreta...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/02/mike-chenault-cos-eats-cos.html

Oh, Crap, and I literally mean Oh, Crap.  One of the first bits of legislation passed by the Republican controlled House of Representatives has been HB80 sponsored by Republican Governor S Par...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/02/sol-in-alaska.html

It's official, Russ Millette, the elected chair of the Alaska GOP was ousted last night by the Republican Party leadership and in his place, Kasilof's own Debbie Holle Brown has ascended the thro...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-brown-queen-of-gop-through-looking.html

Former Soldotna mayor and now state senator, Peter Micciche made the front page of the ADN Wednesday in an article that addresses his possible conflict of interest.  It's common knowledge that ...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/01/ethics-101.html

The Best Big Oil Can Buy  Chris Miller — Associated Press The legislature has gaveled in and the Republican-led House, Senate and executive branch has begun what might be the craziest s...

http://solinsoldotna.blogspot.com/2013/01/state-of-state-madness-begins.html