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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Tim Putney

“On May 10th, 2026, the city clerk received an application to purchase the Griffin Building from Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, and on May 26th, 2026, the clerk received a joint application from the Kodiak Historical Society and the Kodiak Maritime Museum to lease the building.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Gail Armstrong

“if the decision is made to not to lease but to make a sale, we would like to be considered. And if that would be considered, we would like to do something cooperatively with the other two entities here.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Tim Putney

“The Griffin Memorial Hospital was built in 1937 and functioned as Kodiak's first hospital. In later years, it was utilized as the public health office by State of Alaska. The state vacated the building in March 2022. And in 2023, ownership of the property was transferred to the City of Kodiak.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Toby Sullivan “Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Pat Branson “Once the city sells a property of this historic nature, the city has no control over that building, the outside, the interior, what goes on in the building, and if the public can access the building or if it's closed for other private purposes. Leasing the Griffin Building makes more sense as leases can be canceled or renewed. Selling a building or land is permanent.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Pat Branson “the city should lease the historic Griffin Building to the Maritime and Kodiak History Museums. I have a dozen reasons for you. The Griffin Building is a historic Kodiak building that should be preserved and not sold.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Toby Sullivan “I'd like to express my support for the lease application for the Griffin Hospital building we and the Kodak History Museum tendered to the city back in June. The History Museum needs collection storage space, and the Maritime Museum needs both storage and exhibit space.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Toby Sullivan “I've recently talked about this project to the Rasmuson Foundation, the largest single source of nonprofit funding in Alaska, and the word from them is that they would consider a funding application from the two museums to do necessary upgrades to the Griffin Building if the museums had an appropriate lease agreement with the city.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

Carter Cole “They have a hard time answering your question, but I will tell you, they're great at giving you answers, but they could not— I had the same question. They were unable to answer my question.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“the reason why I'm here is because of the proposed just under 20,000-acre parcel, or it's something that Ada put a request in.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“in the future, I think there were some lessons learned here for me personally. And in the future, I think that engagement ahead of time, soliciting feedback from council members, from the mayor, you know, that, that's something, something that we'll definitely do, right?”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“we're not planning to, to put a data center up here because what— when we put our submission in, it was all projects under the sun.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“I know that there's the prospect of oil— of gravel, excuse me, gravel, a material for for that. And one of the other thoughts was that from ADA's perspective, with all of the development, you know, access to gravel, that's something that would be important for infrastructure.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“When they're talking data center, we're looking at something the size of a Connex. We're not looking at anything larger than that. It's more micro scale.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“to answer your question about why we didn't, the land's technically not ADAs, right? And so we first have to come up with a development plan and with an application, and that's what triggers that process.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“we didn't— we put all projects under the sun. We don't have a single project in hand, no proposal, no nothing for that land, no plans for that land.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Rachel Longacre

“DNR was approached by ADA to help find land that was suitable to fulfill their mission of creating development and economics. That is not DNR's mission, that is ADA's mission. We are the landholders, so they came to us and asked us for certain things that, you know, it was land within close proximity.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Carter Cole “it's not good the way it is for the public. I think they could do a much better way of how it comes out, but it's really the way I understood it, it's really up to the entity to ask DNR”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Rachel Longacre

“We can hear you. Okay, great. So that is the process that we're in currently. The land has not transferred. We have a preliminary decision that is out for public notice, and that is where the public is able to weigh in.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“20,000 Acres is not small.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Kelvin Goode

“The public access trails that exist, there's no intention to touch them. And so we don't— that's one thing we don't want to do is tread on people's rights, tread on people's subsistence activities.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026

Elizabeth Hinshaw

“This man actually has built so much on that lot that he has no place to push snow, so it wasn't really anything that he thought of. He's from California. They have sunshine and it melts.”

Soldotna: 9-9-2026 City Council Meetings · Sep 9, 2026

Elizabeth Hinshaw

“So I'm just wondering if maybe planning might do a little bit more due diligence when it comes to putting these things together for those individuals.”

Soldotna: 9-9-2026 City Council Meetings · Sep 9, 2026

Elizabeth Hinshaw

“But again, we're in an elementary area with lots of people that come and go. My concern is the kids and the traffic.”

Soldotna: 9-9-2026 City Council Meetings · Sep 9, 2026

Elizabeth Hinshaw

“I live at 112 Rose Garland Road, Soldotna, in the area of Readout Elementary. My concern is for planning. Individuals have bought up property and have been building.”

Soldotna: 9-9-2026 City Council Meetings · Sep 9, 2026

Elizabeth Hinshaw

“I understand when this individual put in his plan, there was no indication that he would have planned for an area to push his snow, a removal of his snow. Uh, consequently, he was contacted by the city, um, roads, I believe, um, regarding him pushing his snow out into the middle of the road in front of Readout Elementary. Um, he wasn't contacted once, he wasn't contacted twice, he was contacted 4 times.”

Soldotna: 9-9-2026 City Council Meetings · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Tuttle

“Aye. Aye. Jeez, that went too quick.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Dan Flickenstein

“I agree, I think it's well done. Okay, essentially covers all the main points and, you know, explains the direction and the benefits of moving forward. So I don't see any changes to it. I'd like to make a motion to support the memorandum number 26 in terms of the, um, Bumpus Recreational Area ball fields and improvements.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Tuttle

“Motion to approve the informational memorandum.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Tuttle

“Move on to new business. 9-1 Informational memorandum supporting the Matsu Softball Association. Bumpus Recreation Area improvements.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Dan Flickenstein

“And now it's a matter of waiting. Hopefully this will be prioritized and at some point be considered for funding. For the expansion. So, uh, yeah, we have been working on it for a couple years, just incremental progress, raising awareness, that kind of thing. But it's a fairly significant project, and I'm sure it'll take some time to work through all the details.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Dan Flickenstein

“So it was, uh, presented to Eric Shaw, and, uh, I'm not sure if, uh, Adam, the executive director, when he was here last November, I think he, uh, may have left a site plan or shared site plans and reviewed that at that time.”

Wasilla: Parks and Recreation Commission - 09 Sep 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Sean Case “I can tell you that within close proximity of when the officer fired a round was when the individual was pointing a gun out the window. This was in a third-story window and officers were outside on ground level.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Chris Adam

“Um, at what point was this person shot? It sounds like it might have been after they pointed a gun out the window at the school across the street and officers, but was that when the officer took the shot?”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “The subject was seen in the window and pointing the gun in the direction of officers as well as the school.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “In this case, we had a suicidal intoxicated individual that made a decision that put the public at risk.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “We had the right personnel, we had the right equipment, we had containment, we had communication, evacuation. And like so many times, we've had calls like this in the past that have ended in a safe resolution and taking the individual into custody. Sometimes you just can't control everything.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “Earlier this afternoon at approximately 1:34, we received a call from the Adelaide, which is a multi-unit living facility at 9th and Cordova. Regarding an intoxicated adult female threatening suicide by gun.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “Both of them were weapons offense, fear assault with a gun. One for the caller that was a staff member, and one for another staff member that was in the residence.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “We had on-duty SWAT members immediately respond with special equipment that they have available to them. We also initiated a full-team SWAT call-out for the incident, and we got a lot of equipment and individuals on scene besides our Mobile Intervention Team and our crisis negotiators.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Sean Case “We established containment on the vehicle. We evacuated the majority of the occupants. We contacted the school that was across the street and advised them of the incident so that they would stay inside the school. We established that two felony crimes had been committed.”

Anchorage Police: OIS Press Conference August 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026

Mary Peltola “Alaskans know the difference between a senator who fights for fish and one who fishes for donations. That's why I've not taken a single dollar from out-of-state corporate trawlers and why I've never owned a share of stock in a farmed fish company.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Mary Peltola “Dan Sullivan voted He went right along with all these dogecuts, mowing down federal employees that we rely on. These agencies weren't fully staffed to begin with. Alaska has taken more cuts on federal employees percentage-wise than any other state”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Dan Sullivan “I relentlessly worked on getting a ban on all Russian seafood into the United States of America. This took relentless work.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Mary Peltola “we've got to make sure that the USDA Office of Seafood doesn't become the Dan Sullivan Office of Farmed Fish.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Dan Sullivan “My opponent would empower a Seattle, Washington-based senator to be the next chairman of the Commerce Committee. Any opportunity to get bycatch bills passed, including mine, would be automatically undermined if you had the chairman of the Commerce Committee being from Washington State. That's who my opponent is looking to empower.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Dan Sullivan “During my opponent's first term in Congress, she did not introduce one bill dealing with fish. In two terms in Congress, she did not have one bill signed into law. I had 63 signed into law in two terms, many focused on strengthening our fisheries.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

Dan Sullivan “And now we are going after China with regard to the same ban. Why? Because Russian trawlers, Chinese trawlers ravage the ocean. They compete unfairly, and they have been, um, going after our markets.”

LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026

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