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

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Curt Chamberlain“I think this provides a unique opportunity for the board to really— to get to know a region that has been, um, by, by, you know, meeting location, chronically underrepresented and under, underpresented to the board.”

Alaska Board of Fisheries: 2026 Board of Fisheries Work Session (10/29/2026) · Oct 29, 2026

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Mike Wood“the user groups that are in Dillingham are typical— majority of them in a commercial fleet are not from in the state. Same with the sport fishing lodges that operate out there that want to— they'll all fly into Anchorage in order to have discussions on Bristol Bay.”

Alaska Board of Fisheries: 2026 Board of Fisheries Work Session (10/29/2026) · Oct 29, 2026

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Marit Carlson-Van Dort“141 was a 5-2 vote, um, and the new information is based on a legally questionable and unprecedented action by the Department of Law.”

Alaska Board of Fisheries: 2026 Board of Fisheries Work Session (10/29/2026) · Oct 29, 2026

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Marit Carlson-Van Dort“It was adopted in a vote of 4-3 by this board. It was voided by a legally questionable and unprecedented action by the Department of Law. And I think that definitely falls squarely into the unforeseen category.”

Alaska Board of Fisheries: 2026 Board of Fisheries Work Session (10/29/2026) · Oct 29, 2026

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Tom Carpenter“I guess I just would like to hear from Mr. Chamberlain about, you know, his reasons that that's obviously traditionally not been a place. We've either had it in Anchorage or Fairbanks.”

Alaska Board of Fisheries: 2026 Board of Fisheries Work Session (10/29/2026) · Oct 29, 2026

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Council Member West (Kodiak City Council)

“We still want it to be safe and separated. Utilitarian, thank you. But we don't need all the bells and whistles. We want to make it happen. And I also am excited as we go into construction how this will help people who are driving trucks, people driving on the road, just make them a little more comfortable not having to pass a jogger or a biker.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Special Meeting · Oct 29, 2026

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Djuna Davidson“I think it's really great for Kodiak that this is happening. Kodiak— I was just talking last night to some visitors about how Kodiak is an active outdoor community, and that, like, this is just going to make such a strong impact for people to be able to recreate safely. And I want to give a shout out to Councilmember West for all of her tireless advocacy for this project.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Special Meeting · Oct 29, 2026

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Council Member West (Kodiak City Council)

“when we talk to the DOT that we have match already, and this is just, you know, FYI, this is for 3 years of design. So the engineers will come and they'll be designing the path.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Special Meeting · Oct 29, 2026

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Council Member West (Kodiak City Council)

“I also want to Thank Island Trail Network for— I kind of have wild ideas and it's just been very helpful to have a group kind of do things the official way and also to have obtained a grant that we'll be able to move towards the maps.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Special Meeting · Oct 29, 2026

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Council Member West (Kodiak City Council)

“Move to adopt Resolution Number 2026-TAC-37 with enthusiasm.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Special Meeting · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“when you take a look at the names, you would be— I would say most people would be inclined to vote for the Daniel as opposed to the Dan, the way it sets up. It's very unfair. It's very confusing and meant to be. It's a fraud.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“The Alaska situation is terrible, what Peltola has done and what Schumer and the Democrat party have done. It was a scheme. It was election fraud, total election fraud at the highest level, criminal level. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“she endorsed somebody that I think she shouldn't have endorsed, but that's her. But she also does think that this is terrible, what's taken place with the governor, with the race for Dan Sullivan, the Senate race.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“He was just put there as a fraud. But people aren't going to know that. So nobody's going to know what to do. That's a fraud and it shouldn't be allowed to happen. And it was done in conjunction with Schumer and everybody else.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“Nobody knows. They have no idea who the Dan Sullivan is. You have Dan Sullivan, who's a great senator. You have another guy named Dan Sullivan who never even, I think, voted before. He didn't campaign.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Donald Trump“I guess it's being looked at, but it's a very, very bad thing. Very sad. We have a great senator there, as you know, but they tried to confuse it. And I mean, I'm a high IQ person. You look at that list of names, they also put another person on here that nobody's even talking about.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Joint Base Andrews, Oct. 29, 2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“hereby recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission adopt Resolution PZ-2026-37, approving the conditional use permit subject to the following conditions.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“would continue to be used during the day to provide therapeutic and developmentally appropriate childcare services for approximately 15 to 20 children.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“this project will provide child care for children with developmental disabilities and individualized support needs.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Jeanne Keaton“Resolution PZ-2026-37, granting a conditional use permit for a daycare in an existing commercial building located at 2880 Beaver Loop Road, On parcel 04944007 in the rural residential zone”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“there is a provision in code that we can, um, as a commission, if operations don't start within a year, because they do have a year to kick forward, um, this would be something we could bring back in approximately a year to grant them an extension for good cause.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“If you want to amend the resolution by adding a separate condition, um, that would, that would document it and keep it on the record. Um, if you want to add one more condition that says, um, that they have 2 years, I'd have to find the one piece in code for the reference, but we could put that in as a condition if, if the body is for it.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Diane Fikes“Is there any impact with approving a permit knowing that they're not going to actually have operation until 2028?”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Jeanne Keaton“There are 6 yeses. The motion is approved.”

Kenai: 2026-10-28 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting · Oct 28, 2026

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Dave Carey“I praise you for taking it on, but also I praise you that when Mrs. Wackler and others, but particularly said, wait, wait, wait, You responded so well, okay? You could have said, no, I'm doing this, and, and, and with all kinds of justification. But again, the, the attitude that you showed tonight on asking us to defeat this was exactly what good government is supposed to do, that we as human beings need to treat each each other with decency and kindness, as compared to, I've got a law, and if you don't do this, I'm going to do something to you, I'll fine you.”

Soldotna: 10-28-2026 City Council Meetings · Oct 28, 2026

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Dave Carey“And it went the way it should. And I thank you for your service.”

Soldotna: 10-28-2026 City Council Meetings · Oct 28, 2026

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Paul Whitney“Next item is unfinished business, postponed item, Ordinance 2026-021, adopting procedures regulating unsafe and disruptive conduct of public facilities, introduced by the City Manager. Uh, there's already a motion on the floor to enact as amended from the August December 12, 2026 council meeting.”

Soldotna: 10-28-2026 City Council Meetings · Oct 28, 2026

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Paul Whitney“Ordinance 2026-021 has failed on a 0-6 vote.”

Soldotna: 10-28-2026 City Council Meetings · Oct 28, 2026

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Dave Carey“She brought up an extremely important environmental aspect of our staff and and how the community interacts with them a few months ago, and in an ordinance. It is very difficult to legislate such things as courtesy, kindness, manners, compassion for each other. And yet, as a result of a very, very small number of individuals who didn't maybe get as much teaching weren't getting the teaching from their parents as they should have. She brought forward to us a way to try to mitigate some disservice that was occurring in terms of towards staff.”

Soldotna: 10-28-2026 City Council Meetings · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“it's not a— It's not a huge earth-shattering thing that that depreciation is so high, but it shouldn't be as high as it is because things do happen. And if you look to some of the cash— the revenue and cash expenditures do get dangerously close.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“the two funds are not generating enough revenue to cover those depreciations.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“And so you'll see here on this slide, in FY24, that admin fee was $1.10 million, just shy of that, or $30,000 shy of that. In '25 and '26, we budgeted for that to drop even further, or drop further, down to about $700,000. And in '27 and '28, we're budgeting about $678,000.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“where Seward is different, that we run and operate our travel lift perform all our maintenance, where Kodiak, for example, they contract out their, their lift to, to another vendor.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“The first one we're going to propose is a rate increase of 10% plus CPI for our travel lifts for '27 and '28.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“One proposal that we're gonna go with is we'll pass our credit card fees on to the end user for the upcoming year.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“It would be paid for by the sales— the seasonal sales tax. So instead of dropping the mill rate, we're not accepting— we're not collecting that $678,000 from the electric utility. Rates are going down and the mill rate stays the same, but we can bring rates down for everybody.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“After COVID, we skipped a few years on our inspections, and so we've had a lot of expenses going out and repairing some of these items on those machines.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“And so with that, we would be able to reduce rates in 2028 by either $0.01 in the winter or $0.50 all year, which is a smaller impact than dropping property taxes, but it's spread out over the entire community to all ratepayers.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“At the end of last year, it was $35,000 to replace the cable, and we do that every 3 years.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“We didn't do it 2 years ago. Decrease rates, but rather than pushing off all the CPI increases and like we had in the past and doing them at once, would be more effective to increase by CPI annually. But no, it's not mandatory.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“No, yeah, we are trying to change also the credit card processor, so it's a lot of changes in the background. But as soon as we have all of that set up, it will be communicated to the customers.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“I would maybe put onto the proposal plate for us to bring back later of getting rid of that administrative fee entirely. So that there's no administrative fee between the City of Seward and the City of Seward Electric Department instead of dropping by $1 mil in 2028.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“Usually in the Harbor and SMIC, those gaps are addressed with state or federal funds, grant monies, but over the next few years, we want to steer both of those funds more towards a greater self-reliance”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“We're just trying to make sure that both of the funds that Tony is operating come in with a little bit more revenue so that they can handle those things if and when they come up, like cable replacements and the increased costs.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“We don't have to make— we're not making decisions. Nope, no decisions today on that, but I just did want to put it out into the ether.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“We don't necessarily anticipate ever seeing a jetty, a breakwater replacement in Tony's tenure here.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)

“we're seeing an increase in our track lift maintenance that is hard to keep up with. For a great example is our cable for the 300-ton lift has gone from historically $10,000 to $12,000 for cable for that machine.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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Kat Sorensen“And I do know that over, over the past, this has been a pretty big contention, spot of contention for the community. And so it's not in my proposal. It was just something that came to mind today as I was looking at the numbers we were discussing last night and the number on this slide today. And I wanted to throw it out there.”

Seward: City Council Budget Work Session Oct 28 2026 · Oct 28, 2026

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