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

Megan Wallace

“The United States Supreme Court granted cert, agreeing to take on this case this term. The case involves an Alaska Supreme Court decision holding that it was not unconstitutionally excessive punishment to confiscate the airplane of a pilot whose cargo for a flight to a dry village included alcohol. Central to the Alaska Supreme Court's decision was an emphasis on the legislature's responsibility in setting penalties and giving deference, uh, oh, and for courts to give deference to legislative determinations, um, so long as those penalties are not grossly disproportional.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - September 10, 2026 10:00am · Sep 10, 2026

Chris French “The proposal that went through the Burrow Lands Committee was disposal of portions of those properties.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “you're not developing them when they're in the natural use district, as well as they're in the natural use land use designation for the Comprehensive Plan as well. So that's why staff is recommending to retain them.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “Resolution A is the one that you would make your initial motion on before to open the public hearing because that one is in the positive in terms of disposing of it, you always— you have Resolution B, which is the one for retention.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “Staff recommended no because of what the current Comprehensive Plan and the current Land Use Plan for this area stated when it was rezoned to Natural Use District.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “I think we have about 14 comments in opposition to disposing of, of the portions of these two properties.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “Staff has reviewed the application against approved plans for the area as well as the 2008 Comprehensive Plan. Staff recommended that the portions of the subject properties be retained. And not disposed of.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “the recommendation from the Lands Committee was that they would be disposed of through a request for proposals.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “these are going to be quite a bit further off because we're talking about request for proposal, and then that would lead to a lot of other things that would need to happen because depending on what the proposal is, it still would have to be rezoned to something other than natural use. You would still have to have a subdivision.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Chris French “all 14 comments are attached to the work session's agenda item, so you should have those in front of you on your screens.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“The husband also implied the daughter, now an adult, was capable of caring for herself, so future child support was unwarranted.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No.7817, S-19197 Property division & child support in divorce & custody · Sep 10, 2026

“the husband argued that he should not be required to pay past child support for the parties' disabled adult daughter because the daughter lived in an assisted care facility, so neither parent had physical custody of her”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No.7817, S-19197 Property division & child support in divorce & custody · Sep 10, 2026

Bernadette M. Wilson “some will tell you that hatcheries saved their particular industry. You have others that will tell you that the hatcheries you know, killed off the natural stock.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Gary Stevens “And all 4 candidates have said yes.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “salmon don't observe, you know, as though they were, you know, lines on the map that, you know, we've drawn international boundaries and borders, and what happens in the high seas and beyond US federal waters is a little bit of a black box.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “Something's got to be done because what we're doing under this science isn't working.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Toby Sullivan “In May, the Attorney General, the Alaska Attorney General, voided 5 Board of Fisheries regulations adopted by the board in February 2026 due to violations of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Bernadette M. Wilson “we'll talk about bycatch, we'll talk about allocation issues, we will talk about trawling, we'll talk about conflicts of interest with the Board of Fish, we'll talk about the importance of a Commissioner of Fish and Game.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Toby Sullivan “The regulations would have restricted Area M salmon fisheries and ended an adaptive management program that allowed fishing while reducing, reducing June chum salmon harvest to conserve Yukon, Kuskokwim chum salmon stocks.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Treg Taylor “So I think they got it right, um, in what, what occurred there. I've also received complaints from Alaskans over and over and over again about the unbalance that currently exists on the board. And as your governor, I promise that I will appoint people to the board that are going to put Alaskans first and that they're going to be fair and open-minded to all users of the resource.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Treg Taylor “we have to end practices that destroy our habitat, period. We have to end practices that destroy our habitat. And we've got to get a handle on, on bycatch issues throughout the state.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Bernadette M. Wilson “When you have 5 out of 7 members at, you know, any particular point that belong to one industry or another, clearly there's a problem. I do think that we need to appoint and have a review process and committee that can really look at what is the process for appointing, We need to have conversations about, is it time to increase membership from 7 to 9? Is it time to have those representatives be regionally representative of the different areas of the state? We need to make sure that they absolutely do not have conflicts of interest.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Treg Taylor “I want to make sure that people also realize that the board cannot subvert its own promise, the public process, and also its own regulations. To achieve an end.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “I've called for a ban on trawling, especially bottom trawling, in the 3-mile zone. I know that's gonna be painful for some folks.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Treg Taylor “But I think you, I don't think I would put someone that's actively involved in the commercial fishing industry on the board. Now if you're retired, if you're no longer working in that industry, I think that they bring a lot of expertise”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “Number one, rates of Chinook and chum bycatch, especially 10 or 20 years ago, were extremely elevated. They've come down a lot since, but in past decades, very, very high rates of Chinook and chum bycatch”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Bernadette M. Wilson “we need to talk about bottom trawlers, the big corporate trawlers where you've got, you know, boats that are up to 295 feet long and 3,000 horsepower, and having a conversation about that versus, you know, the mom and pops.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “A North Star for me on Board of Fish nominations from the governor is making sure that there's balance on the Board of Fish. Balance.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “I've been concerned in recent years that we have lost balance on the Board of Fish and I'm very committed as governor to nominate Alaskans, qualified Alaskans, to serve on the board from all those user groups to make sure that there is fair and equal balance across those user groups.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Gary Stevens “Will you hire a dedicated fisheries advisor?”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “Fish camps are closed. They've been closed now, I think, for 6 years, and their cultures are being lost there. Because there's no salmon.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “we blame water temperature, we blame other things like this that we can't control. That doesn't mean you, you don't control the things that you, you can control.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “So again, I support the notion that if the legislature would come and propose legislation, I would be willing to expand the board to 11 members if at all possible, because then that's how you get— without the seats there, you can't get the representation.”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Dave Bronson “So the short answer is yes. Would, would I welcome, uh, commercial experience? Yes, I would. But the board should probably be the same size as the NPFMC. It should be about 11 people so we get that, those, those, all those voices”

LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026

Mary Peltola “the average price in Anchorage is just slightly over $5, and that's our biggest city. But we have remote, remote communities like Shungnak outside of Kotzebue. They're going to be paying $26.82 a gallon throughout the entire winter until their spring barge comes. Again, $26.82 a gallon for gasoline.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Mary Peltola “While Dan Sullivan has tripled his own personal wealth in the last 12 years doing prolific amounts of stock trades, the rest of us in Alaska have been going backwards financially. We are living very hand-to-mouth.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Lawrence O'Donnell

“even in larger communities, hubs like Dillingham out in Bristol Bay, they'll be paying $9 a gallon for gas.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Lawrence O'Donnell

“you've got campaign ads that are hitting Dan Sullivan for not doing what Alaska needs during this time. He has not opposed Donald Trump's war. Opportunities in the United States Senate to vote against it, he has voted to support it every single time.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Mary Peltola “Every day they have to choose between heat and food. And I hear this over and over in Alaska. We're very concerned about the upcoming winter and how people are going to afford to heat their homes and pay for groceries and pay for healthcare.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Mary Peltola “in Kaktovik, a community outside of Utqiagvik in the North Slope, a 60 Tablet container of Advil was $68. So every single thing that we buy is impacted by the price of fuel. 82% Of our communities you can only get to by air.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

Mary Peltola “Dan Sullivan has voted more than 10 times to support this war in Iran. Dan Sullivan has voted more than 10 times to jack up the prices for all Alaskans, and he has the audacity to refer to this situation as an externality, a campaign externality. When he was asked about energy prices, he said, "Well, I don't think that they're good anywhere, and every campaign has externalities." We don't really even know what that means in Alaska.”

Mary Peltola campaign: Mary Peltola on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word · Sep 9, 2026

“Third, the court was not convinced by the private letter ruling the corporation got from the IRS. In a private letter ruling, the IRS offers an opinion about a taxpayer's tax situation based on facts described by the taxpayer. In this case, the IRS's letter did not mention certain facts that were key to the state's decision. And the private letter ruling was issued long after the state's decision, so it is possible the corporation changed the way it operated in the meantime. Therefore, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the state was not wrong to deny the corporation favorable tax treatment.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7818, S-18949, Alyeska International, Inc, d/b/a Alaska Sleep Clini · Sep 9, 2026

“The Alaska Supreme Court issued an order on July 17, 2026, in a corporate tax case. Alaska law offers a favorable tax status to corporations that meet certain standards described in federal law. This favorable treatment does not apply to businesses that perform services in the field of health.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7818, S-18949, Alyeska International, Inc, d/b/a Alaska Sleep Clini · Sep 9, 2026

“2. The state was wrong to find that the corporation performed services in the field of health. And 3. The outcome of this case should be controlled by a private letter ruling the corporation later got from the IRS stating that the corporation did not perform services in the field of health. The court was not convinced by these arguments.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7818, S-18949, Alyeska International, Inc, d/b/a Alaska Sleep Clini · Sep 9, 2026

“A corporation that performs sleep studies ordered by doctors filed a tax return that claimed the favorable tax status. The state denied this status, concluding that the corporation performed services in the field of health, and required the corporation to pay more taxes. The Superior Court affirmed the state's decision. The corporation appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court, raising 3 main arguments: 1. The state's ruling was not timely.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7818, S-18949, Alyeska International, Inc, d/b/a Alaska Sleep Clini · Sep 9, 2026

“First, the state's denial of the corporation's tax exemption was timely. The corporation argued that the state must decide whether taxpayers qualify for a tax exemption on the first day of the tax year and then immediately notify taxpayers. But the corporation's reading of the law would be unworkable and is not what the legislature, which passed the law, intended. Second, the state correctly decided that the corporation performs services in the field of health. This ruling was based on evidence about the role of the corporation's highly trained medical director and the corporation's marketing, which emphasized its expertise and skill in testing for sleep disorders.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7818, S-18949, Alyeska International, Inc, d/b/a Alaska Sleep Clini · Sep 9, 2026

“He argued that he had a right to be present for the trial of his lawsuit.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“Even then, if a person is too disruptive, that person can be removed. In a civil case like this one, the right to be present is not as strong as in a criminal case. The court must balance a person's right to be there against the other side's right to a fair trial. The court must also warn the person before removing him from trial.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

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