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

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Anna Brawley“what risk does Anchorage have in particular because of our challenging building? You know, are we going to get punished for trying but not seeing the volume that we would see in Columbus, Ohio, or in a city in Texas, or things like that?”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026

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Nolan Cloutier

“in the NDAA, both the Senate and the House version, the National Defense Authorization Act, that we have language in both bills that would convey land at the landfill, at the Anchorage landfill that's adjacent to landfill that we've actually been leasing from, um, Jaybear for a long time, that would be conveyed to the Municipality of Anchorage for the purposes of ultimately hosting a waste-to-energy plant.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026

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Susanne Fleek-Green“connecting with American Planning Association, National League of Cities, and these other organizations that are tracking. I know they have a lot of good resources too”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026

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Susanne Fleek-Green“It's gentler language, whereas the House language really is what we had worked on that says you will— we are given giving both Department of War as well as Department of the Interior to access that 49 acres and transfer it to the Municipality of Anchorage. So it's much more direct in terms of what we want them to do.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026

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Miles Smith

“So what are we going to do about it? Because it's a problem that the city has made. Now the city has to fix it.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“I will say that I I don't think it's going to make a difference because I think that the rentals are not necessarily businesses renting skiffs to people. I think it's with a business license renting a skiff. I don't think that's what you're seeing.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Yeah, we don't have the resources. We don't have officers that could hang out at the landfill, you know, or even take those trips out there.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Can we call the people here? What is the timeline for the fence? It's out for RFP again. We didn't get an engineer.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“The exclusion of watercraft— 14% on motor vehicle rentals excluding watercraft, and I'm thinking about Skiff rentals.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“But to actually get a permit from the state, just start shooting any— I don't know you're going to get that. Yeah, I wouldn't say very likely. Um, I mean, I can ask Charlotte to get an affirmative yes or no on that. Um, and I will say the bear that was dead out there was killed by another bear.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“I, I will support this. I, I think it is definitely going to impact me personally, but I think for the good of Cordova, um, we do need to look for revenue, and this is This is a way that's not going to hurt the locals as much as a raise in the mill rate or a change in the base sales tax.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Motion passes.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Talked about a few things. We are gonna— we have the new dumpster truck is finally here, or will finally be here Friday. And then we'll use residential.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Zero. So we put it out to contractors, we're notifying, um, places in Anchorage. We've talked to Kodiak to get better because they did a bear biz recently.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“All those in favor of adopting Ordinance 1240 As amended, please signify by saying aye.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Council Member Collins and I have talked a lot about food waste composting. If we could take food waste out of the waste stream, but it takes a lot of equipment. It takes rejiggering the whole waste collection system to do that”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“Our sales tax, including surtaxes, is looking at about $250,000 less than where we were this time last year.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“having to incorporate a fuel surcharge this year for the first time in the middle of the season and adding another percentage to a tax to a place that's already.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Miles Smith

“The hook trucks, you know, I don't know how much trash you have, but you can take things to the baler for transfer, um, and then they get taken out in the hook truck. Nobody gets out in the truck. So we're trying to work through some of those things.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“we are at this point are torturing this with these amendments, and I don't think that we're necessarily going to get to a factual basis that we're all, we're all saying, hey, look, these, this accusation, this list of accusations has been vetted, it's in context, it actually pertains to the section of code that we're trying to use.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“the problem is I don't— I no longer believe the accusation document knowing what I know now. I think it is flawed. I think the accusation document puts forward campaign activity which is totally separate from removal code to begin with.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“My name is Barbara Hood. I'm a resident of Stuck Again. We're the Bashir neighborhood.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I'd like to move for immediate reconsideration.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I'm representing the Board of Supervisors of the Glen Alps Road Service Area, or GARSA. We manage the roads that go to the 2 busiest trailheads at Chugach State Park, Glen Alps and the Rabbit Lake Sunnyside Flattop. We support the proposed ordinance and the creation of a CASA advisory board.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“you might want to consider including as a voting member of the advisory board a board member of one of the road service areas that provide access to the park, given their familiarity with road conditions.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“I think there are, there are recommendations that we can put in, in place that will help ensure that, as Member Baldwin-Day described, the purpose of assembly travel, that that is being met.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“Think about the politicized process that we are setting precedent for. I as a member can just make any accusation I want, and if I have a majority as my team and we're going after a minority member minority used in the sense of political minority.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“the underlying conflict that this is going to surface will not go away until we resolve it. And so whether this thing exists or not, that is what we're going to have to deal with.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“On a vote of 12 to 0, this item is now continued to the meeting of October 6th, and again, intent to schedule a work session, uh, between now and then.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Okay, on a vote of 3 to 8, um, this item, uh, is not going to be reconsidered, so that motion has failed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“that can be— or that must be done by someone who is in the prevailing side. Because it was a no and Mr. Perez-Fría was a no, then that would be in order.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Seeing and hearing none, then this item is indefinitely postponed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“we do not believe a small number of people should be able to leverage a large number of people by withholding entering into cooperative agreements.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“On a vote of 5 to 6, um, that, uh, AR 2026-182 S2 as amended has failed the body, or has failed to pass the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Second. Okay, there's a motion to immediately reconsider by Mr. Perez-Fría, second by Mr. Volland. Do you want to speak to that, Mr. Perez-Fría? Uh, nope, I encourage a no vote.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Anna Brawley“our neighborhood supports CASA, but I think in order to succeed and continue, it needs to be balanced and fair.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Daniel Volland“At this point, I'm a no vote, end of. I will not be voting to move forward in an investigation because I'm not hearing that it can be done in the manner that the assembly is attempting to request via these, these amendments.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026

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Lisa Murkowski“On this vote, the ayes are 6, the nays are 5. The ayes have it. The bill as amended is agreed to and reported favorably to the Senate.”

Senate Indian Affairs (Murkowski): Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S.1055, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, S.1514, to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, S.3219, to transfer certain Federal land into trust for certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico, and H.R.2400, to take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe. · Aug 5, 2026

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Lisa Murkowski“I do think that it departs from the bill that Senator Daines has introduced and probably make it harder for parties to reach the revenue sharing agreement that is required in the base text here.”

Senate Indian Affairs (Murkowski): Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S.1055, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, S.1514, to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, S.3219, to transfer certain Federal land into trust for certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico, and H.R.2400, to take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe. · Aug 5, 2026

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Tama Solanoa

“If this ballot initiative passes, the opportunity for the Alaska Legislature to allow for American Samoans to vote in local and state is taken away. It ties their hands and prevents them from ameliorating a huge injustice.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Mike Chenault

“It closes the gap and makes Alaska law unmistakably clear.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Tama Solanoa

“It says the bearer is a United States national and not a United States citizen. So that can be found in my government issued, my federally issued document that I received. I am a US national. I am not an alien. I am not a citizen.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Mike Chenault

“In this year alone, the Los Angeles City Council moved forward a proposal to allow non-citizens voting in city and school board elections.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Mike Chenault

“The current law says citizens may vote. It does not specifically say that only citizens can vote. This initiative fixes that.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Andrew Gray“In Alaska today, it is against the law for a non-US citizen to vote in a local or state or federal election. It is against the law. And how do we know that? Because in 2023, we arrested 11 people in Whittier for voting.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Andrew Gray“They are American nationals. They are from American Samoa. They carry an American passport. That's the only passport they have.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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Mike Chenault

“It closes a loophole before someone tries to exploit it. And it makes clear once and for all that in Alaska, only U.S. citizens vote.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260805-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Hearing

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