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Item: Anchorage Assembly doesn’t have votes for rights veto override
Qnews Aug 26 09
::: The Anchorage Assembly met Tuesday night without making a move to override the August 17 veto by Mayor Dan Sullivan of the city’s expanded anti-discrimination ordinance.
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Levi Johnston's Mom Going to Jail?
Advocate Aug 20 09Sherry Johnston,
mother of “gay icon” Levi Johnston, pleaded
guilty to trying to sell the prescription painkiller
OxyContin in an Alaskan state court on Wednesday,
reports the Anchorage Daily News.
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Anchorage mayor vetoes anti-discrimination ordinance
Qnews Aug 17 09
Claiming there is “lack of quantifiable evidence necessitating this ordinance”, Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan on Monday vetoed an anti-discrimination measure that would have banned discrimination against LGBT people in Anchorage.
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Why Did Anchorage OK a Gay Rights Ordinance?
Bilerico Aug 14 09
As reported in the Anchorage Daily News:
By a 7-4 vote, the Anchorage Assembly Tuesday approved a compromise ordinance that bans discrimination in Anchorage on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Anchorage Mayor Weighs Ordinace
Advocate Aug 13 09Anchorage mayor
Dan Sullivan said on Wednesday that he was still
considering whether to veto the antidiscrimination ordinance
with protections for sexual orientation and gender
identity that passed the assembly on Tuesday, reports
the Anchorage Daily News.
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Anchorage Assembly passes LGBT anti-bias ordinance (again)
Qnews Aug 12 09Anchorage Flickr photo by MarculescuEugenIancuAla ska
After two months of often-loud and contentious public hearings, the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday voted 7-4 to approve a compromise ordinance that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage Daily News reports.
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Anchorage Passes Antidiscrimination Ordinance
Advocate Aug 12 09The Anchorage
Assembly passed an ordinance that bans discrimination based
on sexual orientation and gender identity by a 7-4 vote on
Tuesday, reports the Anchorage Daily News.
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Sarah Palin's Last Day as Governor of Alaska: A Tribute (also)
Pams House blend Jul 24 09
Bonus Feature: Today's Anchorage Daily News, with stories regarding Palin-packing, probing, and picnics (also).
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Juneau man helps celebrate gay pride in India
Google Gay Pride News / Anchorage Daily News Jul 11 09
Juneau man helps celebrate gay pride in IndiaAnchorage Daily News"It certainly was no New York or Amsterdam pride [parade], but it beat out Juneau's gay pride parade -- which consists of me walking down Franklin Street to .
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Breaking News: Sarah Palin is Stepping Down
Pams House blend Jul 03 09UPDATE: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell makes it sound like Palin is stepping down for family reasons and is sick of politics.
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Palin And Secrecy
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Jul 02 09A revealing op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News. In 1991, the author and his wife set up a watchdog Alaska Budget Report seeking to keep the government honest.
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Exxon agrees to pay interest on Valdez oil spill
America Blog Jun 30 09And it only took them twenty years to come around.
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has decided not to appeal hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on punitive damages resulting from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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Public Outcry Kills Anchorage Gay Protections
Gay News Blog Jun 20 09
An Anchorage, Alaska gay protections bill is likely doomed as public sentiment turns sour, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
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Prospects are dim for Anchorage non-discrimination law
Qnews Jun 19 09
A strategy by opponents of an Anchorage non-discrimination ordinance to delay a vote on the issue appears to have worked, Anchorage Daily News reports.
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Anti-gay strategy in Anchorage – keep talking about gay-rights measure until new mayor takes office
Qnews Jun 17 09
The Anchorage Assembly just started hearing three-minute appeals from some of the 342 people who signed up last week to testify on a proposed change to the city’s anti-discrimination measures that would add protections from bias in hiring, accommodations, or services based on sexual orientation.
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Hundreds Attend Hearing on Gay Rights Ordinance in Anchorage
Towleroad Jun 12 09Hundreds turned out for hearings on a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday.
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Anchorage residents testify and demonstrate on rights ordinance
Qnews Jun 11 09
Source: Anchorage Daily News, KTUU TV,
Supporters of the anti-discrimination ordinance hold signs outside the building where the Anchorage Assembly meets photo: Erik Hill/Anchorage Daily News About 350 people signed up to testify for or against a proposal before the Anchorage Assembly that would add “sexual orientation” to a list of characteristics that cannot be used to infringe on a person's ability to seek employment, housing, educational opportunities, or loans.More from Qnews
Anchorage anti-bias measure recalls troubled past attempts to assure LGBT rights
Qnews Jun 07 09Source: Anchorage Daily News, Bent Alaska blog, Associated Press via Fairbanks News Miner, KTUU TV, KTVA TV
Anchorage Flickr photo by MarculescuEugenIancuAla ska
For the third time since the mid-1970s, a proposal to ban discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation is up for public hearing and action by the assembly that runs Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage.
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