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

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Brenda Mills“this action conforms with zoning and adopted plans. Existing row surplus only because equivalent replacement row is being dedicated. Replacement alignment is more suitable for future construction. Future northern access is preserved.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 · Sep 2, 2026

0:28
Kevin Cross“this for the substation is a different project, and it is what prompted this plat. So the plat is actually a separate action as well.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 · Sep 2, 2026

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Brenda Mills“there's multiple acreage figures, so on 3 different pages there's 3 different, um, gross acreage figures: 1603.2, 1606.95, 1609, 1609.1. What's the actual gross acreage, just so we can keep a nice clean record?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 · Sep 2, 2026

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Brenda Mills“just because of like the extensive historical, geotechnical, all that kind of fun stuff. So I guess you guys will go through site-specific review and like the utilities and AWU and, you know, these are all things that are still going be part of this project, correct?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 · Sep 2, 2026

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Patrick Jones“That has passed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 · Sep 2, 2026

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Donald Trump“So they have somebody running, and then they found a man who never was political before. Never ran, never thought about running. And his name was Dan Sullivan. So he's running in the race against Dan Sullivan. And he actually got 2.5 or 3 points in the race and he qualified for the final.”

White House: President Trump Participates in a Rose Garden Dinner · Sep 2, 2026

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Donald Trump“I'm going to go up to Alaska for Dan Sullivan. Think of it. They have a man named Dan Sullivan running against him, the Democrats. I think, Todd, you have a legal case on that. They sued to be— it's how crazy.”

White House: President Trump Participates in a Rose Garden Dinner · Sep 2, 2026

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Donald Trump“All he knew is his name was Dan Sullivan. He barely knew that. But he has the same name as a very good senator that we have for Alaska. So I'm going to go to Alaska, and I won it by a lot, by a real lot. And I'm going to, you know, hopefully get Dan.”

White House: President Trump Participates in a Rose Garden Dinner · Sep 2, 2026

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Donald Trump“So let's say he takes 2 or 3 points away. That's the difference between winning and losing. It should be illegal. I don't know how the judges are ruling it, but it really is terrible. This guy knew nothing.”

White House: President Trump Participates in a Rose Garden Dinner · Sep 2, 2026

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Keith McCormick“This is the infrastructure for mass surveillance. You don't have to feed in 250 cameras to track somebody. I just need to see 4 over and over and over again.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“we currently have automatic license plate readers and are testing them, and the funding that you all voted to approve tonight is building out the infrastructure to use them in the future. That is before we have guardrails in code for this technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I don't know if I love that particular addition. I guess I'll just say that for the record. I'm not going to move an amendment or anything, but I do want to see us not water down a focus on the need for multifamily. And the need for, for greater density in more parts of town.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I appreciate the emphasis on maximizing housing production and efficient use of land and public infrastructure. I appreciate the prioritization of multifamily over lower-density detached residential development”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“move to continue the public hearing to the meeting of September 15th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I'm asking for 2 weeks. I think it's a reasonable request, especially in light of the public focus on this issue.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Robert Doehl“we believe, one, with properties transferring to the municipality like from the school district for management authority will slow the disposition of them them. For instance, we cannot start some of those preliminary actions before it is in the inventory, and that takes time... we see it constraining as drafted, recognizing just the emphasis on housing is noble and important to where we have to go, but there may be properties where it is the weighing of those factors will be difficult under these criteria”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“the intent of the sponsors of that ordinance, when we get to it, is going to be to continue the public hearing. Um, we plan on this week meeting with the municipal attorney, um, as well as Assembly Council, getting the attorneys in a room and going through that ordinance and doing more work on it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Robert Doehl“opportunities arise at a certain time where a particular developer and a particular plan and finances align with a particular property. And if you miss that window, you may wait a substantial amount of time before another opportunity presents itself.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I just want to categorically reject any premise that says we made a prior decision, we can't undo it, or we funded something one time so we need to keep funding something. That's called a sunken cost fallacy.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I don't, I don't see a whole lot of utility in postponing this. I don't think that's necessary. We actually had an entire work session on housing policy where this was provided to members... I also don't see a whole lot of risk of unintended consequences coming from a, a policy position resolution as opposed to an ordinance.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Keith McCormick“We're talking about expanding resources for an asset that we've had the chief say he can change the policy on tomorrow, and they just update on the website and you can find it if you, if you know about it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

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Sean Case“the only piece of technology that is an active testing phase right now is license plate readers. Everything else existed prior to.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 · Sep 2, 2026

1:04

Nick Stoller

“going to the typical code of, I believe it's 150 and 200 depending on property line versus right-of-way and easements, it substantially reduces, I want to say like 40%. It's not— it's a lot of reduction in the obtainable gravel that we can get.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“I'd point out the damage they caused to the stream buffer area and documented Fish and Game permit violation for that. Uh, apparent spilling. Their storage is bad. Hazardous materials adjacent to the stream with no secondary containment. That's a SWPPP violation.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“My wife figured it out. How many a minute? It's like 20 a minute. You put that in a day, it's thousands. It's tens of thousands of beeps a day, literally.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“I own the property across the street, Beaver Loop here, and I have 2 wells. I'm concerned about contamination from this dig into the water line.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“And does that sound like they're mitigating noise? That they're trying? They're not even trying.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Nick Stoller

“So our intent would be to excavate the gravel underneath the water table. This site, where the water table is, it's 10 to 12 feet, so a majority of the gravel is actually below the water.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“My property adjoins QAP, so that right there shows that there is residence in the— that is applicable to this request.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

0:12

Kurt Wilcox

“Oh, well, white noise is a big, my major concern, or the noise and the pollution and the dust.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

0:45

Kurt Wilcox

“Not 2 weeks after receiving this transfer, they actually dug up the buffer zone, which the city has a record of me calling Elizabeth Appleby to complain. She went out to no avail. I've got some great pictures of not only digging the buffer zone out— that's within 30 feet of the property line.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“I do have a note from the DEC that they did violate, they had some Initial results show an exceedance of particular matter”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

0:09

Kurt Wilcox

“Violation for noise control requirements, jake brakes, backup alarms. Air quality violation. I've got a document from the DEC.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Nick Stoller

“we bid on the land auction sale, um, that the city provided for these two lots. Um, intending for them to be gravel sources.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Kurt Wilcox

“Well, I researched Chester Cohn's original conditional use permit in the It was '75 or '78, and they went to great lengths to see that he did not dig into the water table, and he adhered to it.”

Kenai: 8/26/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Aug 26, 2026

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Dan Whitfield

“With classes between 45 and 83, connecting with students is nearly impossible. All the extra things that made Golden View Band special I can no longer provide— jazz band, lunchtime practice sessions, extra help before and after school All gone.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Dan Whitfield

“I would like to extend an invitation to all of you to spend a day in my Goldenview band room, witness some of the amazing things my students do daily, and see how my schedule and student load is impacting them.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Herper Kushner

“It is day 10 of school and we are burnt out. We are burnt out. Our coaches are exhausted. The teachers are exhausted.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Dan Whitfield

“2 Years ago, 6th graders were integrated into the middle schools, and I was blessed with an additional halftime band director to help teach the added 150+ students that were enrolled in my band program.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Bruce Scheltz

“I respectfully request the board to reconsider the position that you no longer have these building subs to rely on.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

0:19

Tammy Hoag

“All other teachers have 5 classes with 2 planning periods. That is a huge constraint on that classroom.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Tammy Hoag

“Parents deserve to know that a teacher with this record is being asked to carry this heavy load and whether he is given the resources and help to do it successfully. I urge you, ASD, to look into this”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Herper Kushner

“I would encourage this board to come into my class, right? Tyson Elementary. Come into my class for one day and you can see what we're dealing with, and hopefully you guys can provide some support.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Herper Kushner

“in our program we have 3 intensive classes, uh, our building subs have been cut and we are already struggling to get subs and parasubs into my SBBS classroom. So even when we do have a substitute, that does not help us at all because a lot of the subs come in and they are not trained and they're not able to work with the students that we serve.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Rachel Blakeslee“the board essentially just provided some high-level ideas of things that were priorities for spending both in FY27 and FY28, which we'll discuss again tonight.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“$26 million is actually going to be really difficult to balance, especially when our intent is to try to minimize disruption, um, and negative impacts to our students as much as possible. We're getting to that point where we're literally choosing between school safety, security in buildings, versus class size reduction relief.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“just the same number of staff we have now and some of our other obligations will cost about $40 million extra. That's not adding a lot of new positions or contracts, that's just what we have right now today, and we know that's not enough. So really, by setting aside some of these dollars, we are reducing the deficit”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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Herper Kushner

“I wanted to come in tonight and give some comment about some issues that are really facing our school, uh, and in my classroom. Um, so I'm here because I need you to understand what these budget cuts are actually looking like in my classroom and in our classroom.”

Anchorage School Board: 9/1/26 ASD School Board Meeting · Sep 1, 2026

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