Mike Porcaro, behind the mic of your 50,000-watt blowtorch. News Radio 650, KENI. Live from Anchorage, it's your news and information blowtorch. On your front porch Thank you, Rich. Appreciate that. 4.07 is our time. 33 degrees here in Anchorage. 37 in Palmer. 30 in Soldat. 35 in Homer. Talkeakna is 32, Fairbanks 14. Up in Prudhoe, it's minus 11 and some other places around that listen to us. Seattle 49, New York 54, Akaroa, New Zealand.
57. Pensacola, Florida, 69. Tampa, Florida, 73. Tifton, Georgia, 69. And to crash over there in Tokyo, it's raining in 37. All right. Well, it is a Tuesday. And we're glad to have everybody with us. And joining us on the show is a candidate for assembly, Daniel George. Daniel, welcome to the program. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to join you and your listeners. It's an honor. Okay. Well, thank you. First of all, Daniel, tell us a little bit about you. Who is Daniel George?
Sure, I appreciate that. So I am a lifelong Anchorage kid, born and raised here. My parents made that good decision, but I made the choice to come back to Alaska after college and continue making Anchorage my home. I have been very involved in my little part of the community where I live. I was born and raised in District 1 where I'm running for the Anchorage Assembly. I grew up on Government Hill, and I have attended school.
owned a business in, or lived in eight of the 11 community council areas of the North Anchorage District. Okay, so you're pretty familiar with what goes on in the needs of your community. And what would you say some of those needs might be? What are priorities for you? Sure. Well, first and foremost, we've got a public safety.
Major public safety concern, we've got concerns with homelessness. I believe that public safety is the foundation of local government. I've been working and volunteering in my community over the last 20 years. not because I'm someone who wanted to seek out public office, but because I care deeply about my community. And I was driven to step up and to help create change.
in my community. I'm a former community council president in Mountain View in Russian Jack, where I live. I also chaired the Federation of Community Councils, and I've just been hearing from a lot of folks how we're having impacts on our neighborhoods. It's doing a number on our economy and just the overall perception of our community.
Well, I would agree, and since you've been up here, you know, lifelong Alaskan, lifelong English person, you know the difference between the way it was when you were younger and the way it is today, and it's pretty tragic. I think. Absolutely. You know, I had the great privilege as a young person in Alaska to play Little League for City View and bike our trails.
Just experience the best part of being a kid in Alaska, which is being outdoors. And doing that on our parks and our trails and our green spaces. And right now there's a lot of folks trying to, they're competing for the use of those right now. And no more so. And in District 1, North Anchorage, there's going to be kids coming out of school this summer, and a lot of folks don't feel safe using those spaces. And I think we need a policy shift.
a paradigm shift for how we approach these very valued spaces in our community, and part of it has to do with public safety. Well, as you look at the assembly, it's kind of like a one-party rule. The mayor is from the assembly, and your assembly person, the person you're running against, is a relatively newcomer.
to Anchorage. And, you know, no knocking the guy or anything like that, but he doesn't quite, I don't think he quite gets it yet. I think you've got to be here a while in order to understand the community. You've been in your community for a long time and have basically been a community leader. It seems to me that the voters have a pretty clear choice here. Yeah, I would certainly hope that they...
are getting the message that we're trying to get out there as much as possible, and I appreciate you lending us the opportunity to come on your show and share this message. I'm not only a longtime resident and volunteer, someone who's served on boards of nonprofits,
like shallow community housing i also work professionally as a real estate agent and i help people buy homes and start futures and i'm a small business owner i my very first job out of high school was actually building homes right in this district I spent five summers working for local builder John Hagmeier, building homes across Anchorage, including the Cook Inlet houses in Mountain View. I've watched the changes in our district.
over the years, and I've worked very hard to make this a community of choice, a community of first choice. And I'm concerned with the direction that the Assembly and our leadership is taking us in, and I think it's time for change. So Daniel, are you knocking on doors and all that kind of thing? And if you are, which I assume you are, what sort of response are you getting from folks?
Well, I'm getting a great response. I've knocked on a whole lot of doors. We've been phone banking. We've got a mailer out in the mail here. This is my first time running for office, but it's not my first time being involved in the public process. I've had the opportunity to work for our state and congressional leaders in the past, and my lifetime has been focused on delivering results for Alaskans. And because of my...
longevity here. I have many built relationships with folks. Folks, there's a broad level of support for my campaign. I don't know if you saw, we had a couple of fundraisers that raised a few eyebrows with folks all over the political spectrum that were reaching out to support my candidacy for the Anchorage Assembly that are looking for something new and for an assembly that will work for the betterment of Anchorage. And so we're getting a great...
but, you know, these municipal elections, they oftentimes have low voter turnout. And in District 1, I think, when my opponent ran three years ago, we had a 12% turnout. Nothing like our national elections where we have great, fantastic turnout. So I think that a democratic process, local government process works better when you have more turnout. And so I'm really hoping to drive that up if I can.
Well, let's hope so. We'll do what we can to help you there. So how do people get in touch with you if they want to know more? Is there a website, phone numbers? I mean, how do people find out, and how can they help you? Absolutely. I appreciate the opportunity. So we have a website. Check us out. It is danielforanchorage.com, danielforanchorage.com. We have a Facebook page, Daniel George for Assembly. There are two Daniels in this race. However, I'm the one who...
has worked here for decades, has owned a business, has been working to better my community, and understands our challenges. I've helped raise a child in our school district. I've served on a private school board. I've helped craft legislation down in Juneau. I understand our challenges as a state, and I've had the opportunity to work with other leaders for many years. So I ask folks for their support between now and April 1st to vote for Daniel George.
All right, Daniel, it's my pleasure to have you on. I wish you the best of luck. Stay in touch with us, and maybe we can have a new member in that district, and that would be you. Thanks so much for coming on today. Thank you for the opportunity. All right. Daniel George. It is 4.15. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650.
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5, 2, 2, 0, 6, 7. Yesterday we were talking about the ballot. And there was a question on the ballot about Proposition 10 not being on everybody's ballot. And... Angelica called in and said it wasn't on hers, not on mine. Was it on yours, Daryl? It was on my ballot. I found it on mine. I have all, I think, 12 of them on mine. Okay, I've only got 10, 11. I don't know what I've got. Anyway.
So Angelica went and did a little more research, and she sent us this note. She said, Mike and Daryl, thank you for taking my call yesterday. I did a little more reading, and it seems that Proposition 10 is not a bond. It appears to be a special tax levy to be collected for the designated purpose of snow plowing and snow hauling.
This tax will be collected from property owners of a particular service area. There is no borrowing involved as far as I can see from the Muni website description of the proposition. I did not receive the pamphlet summary. of your other callers referred to, and I am only basing this assessment on the Muni website statements. So if there's no borrowing, then there's no need for full faith and credit.
since what you're saying is this is a special assessment for that particular area. And only those people will vote because they're going to be paying for it. They either want to pay for it or not. And that's my understanding of how this works. Now, it sounds plausible to me. And I think Angelica's on target on this one. If it were a bond...
and that we're borrowing, then the full faith and credit of the city would be needed, and every one of us would have to vote on it. Does that make sense? That makes sense, and I'm reading it myself right now. Okay. So I think we may have solved the mystery of Proposition 10. So, there we go. All right. One of the big stories is this whole thing with the judge and the...
Venezuelan criminals. I mean, I'm not even going to call them migrants. They're criminals. And the judge, this Judge Boesberg, And sometimes, you know, judges have authority, and they have authority of their court, and their court has a limit.
Some of these guys and gals think, I'm just going to overrule the president all over the country and stop them from doing anything. Now, the problem with Judge James Bosberg... is that he kind of got himself in an interesting pickle, as far as I could see, constitutionally. Yes, he's a judge. He's a federal judge. And when a federal judge gives an order, it's something you need to consider very seriously and follow.
If it's beyond his jurisdiction to do what he says you should do, then it's not something you need to worry about. You still need to answer it and you still need to go through the courts and essentially deal with it. You can't just ignore the guy. But the Justice Department insisted today...
that the deportation flights that sent Venezuelan nationals, and these are criminals, okay? These people are here illegally in the country. They don't have green cards. They entered the country illegally. They're criminals. So we sent them to El Salvador over the weekend. And what the Justice Department is saying is it didn't violate a court order.
The federal response came after U.S. District Judge James Bosberg granted an emergency order Saturday to temporarily block the flights from taking place for 14 days while his court considered the legality of using the 1798. Wartime Alien Enemies Act immediately to deport Venezuelan nationals and alleged members of the violent Trenda Agragua gang.
He ordered the Trump administration on Monday to submit more information about Saturday's flights, including what time each plane took off from the United States. The court... ordered the government to address the form in which it can provide further details about the flights that left the United States before 7.25 p.m. reads a filing Tuesday that was co-signed by...
Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and others. The government maintains there is no justification to order the provision of additional information and that doing so would be inappropriate because even accepting plaintiffs' account of the facts there was no violation of the court's written order, since the relevant flights left the U.S. airspace, and so their occupants were removed.
before the order was issued and the court's earlier oral statements were not independently enforceable as injunctions. Now, I don't understand what this judge thinks, but these people were out of the United States of America. And he said, you need to return them and have the planes turned around. He's a district court judge. District court judges don't have that enormous authority. I'm sorry.
And you just can't turn a plane around that's in international waters. He doesn't have that authority. It's gone. It's not in the country. It's out of your jurisdiction. Boesburg on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to answer five other questions submitting declarations to him under seal by noon tomorrow.
What time did the plane take off from the U.S. soil and where? Two, what time did it leave U.S. airspace? What time did it land in which foreign country, including if it made more than one stop? What time were individuals subject solely to the proclamation transferred out of the U.S. custody? And, five, how many people were aboard solely on the basis of the proclamation?
Now, I suppose a judge can ask those questions. Whether or not the Department of Justice wants to answer them, that's a different question. I don't know what they're going to do. They very well could say it's... National security. And pull that card. The other problem is President Trump has declared the Tranda Aragua gang a terrorist group. And he called them enemy combatants. And so essentially what the president is saying is that he is prosecuting a war as commander-in-chief.
Now there isn't a judge anywhere, and there's no constitutional authority for any judge to say that the commander-in-chief cannot act to protect the country. Those powers are very clearly explained in the Constitution. So this guy has a history, too, of being kind of an activist. And again, you know, you don't want to...
You don't want to defy court orders. You don't want to basically tell the judiciary to stay out of your life. You want to work with everybody. You want to be respectful and all of that. But I think this guy... took a step too far, and he's over his skis on this one. So what's going to happen is nothing. These guys are not coming back, and the whole idea... that he is upset that we're trying to get rid of this kind of vermin from our country, it boggles my mind. But...
There's another story that we'll tell you when we come back. Stay with us. Call Mike and Crash now. Be a part of the show on NewsRadio 650 KENI. This is NewsRadio 650 KENI. Anchorage. It's a small steam plume coming from the summit. The alert level is still at advisory. The color code is still at yellow. It's one of more than 140 active volcanoes in Alaska. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are joining the senators from Hawaii and Washington state in pushing.
for more federal funding on volcano monitoring. They are reintroducing an act that expired in 2013, the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring Systems Act. A judge has ruled the government killing of brown bears in Alaska is unconstitutional.
The State Department of Fish and Game making the decision to kill nearly 200 bears back in 2022 in an effort to help the shrinking caribou herd. A judge said the agency violated due process by not holding public hearings in order the killings to stop immediately. And a collector in Alaska is auctioning off an ancient cave bear. skull. Alaska's news source says the skull is at least 60,000 years old. That's the latest. I'm Jack Cronin. News Radio 650. KENI. Depend on it.
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We've got a note here from Jose. He says, why do all these federal judges have all this power and no one can keep them in check? How can these judges have free reign to do as they please and not answer to anyone? Well, Jose, I think there's going to be some answering as Trump takes all this stuff up to the Supreme Court.
There needs to be a look at the judiciary here, and kind of a, I guess... I know Chief Justice Roberts was upset today because there were people that were talking about this Judge Boatsburg who should be impeached. And that's something that Congress can do, by the way. Whether or not that's something that they want to do or don't want to do, that's up to them. But that's certainly something they can do. Roberts didn't like that.
And he kind of pushed back. But it would be helpful if some of these judges maybe were told, you know, you have certain limits. And, you know, the reading of the Constitution, you certainly can make your interpretation, but you're also going to be subject to being overturned, or if you've... gotten to the point where you're so far out, Congress can impeach you. Now, will they do that? I don't think so. But that in and of itself is Congress's method to check the judiciary.
And, you know, when you're looking at getting involved in the president conducting the military, then you got a problem. Because the judiciary needs to stay out of that, and they know that, and they've always stayed out of it. So I think we're going to see some lines being drawn, and they need to be. They need to be. I don't care who's president. I don't care what's going on. There needs to be at least an understanding of what people's limits are. And with some of these judges...
They seem to decide they're going to legislate from the bench. And they become very activist. You know, we've got a lot of great judges. But sometimes, some of them kind of... Do things that maybe they shouldn't do. Speaking of all that, Senator Murkowski was down in Juneau and must have recovered it. And according to the headline, it says Murkowski gets tepid response in the legislature as she defends Venezuelan criminals. Okay, I'm going to read exactly what Suzanne Downing wrote here.
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski harped on President Donald Trump for deporting violent criminal Venezuelan gang members. arguing that he was violating the rule of law by continuing deportation despite a judicial order to halt them.
Now, I don't know what constitution these people are reading, but these people are here illegally. They've committed crimes, and they have also been declared... a terrorist group I don't know what else you can do it seems to me that all of those things when you add them up say I can kick you out of the country and that's exactly what I'm going to do
I'm not going to jail you in Guantanamo, because apparently that's a problem, I guess, now. But I want to send you to another country, El Salvador. And the El Salvadorans said, yeah, we'll take them. And what happens in El Salvador stays in El Salvador, as far as I know. But it's not going to be nice. What did Trump say? We're going to send you to El Salvador. They've got great prisons down there, and you're not going to like it. That's exactly what he said.
The senator stated that Congress needs to push back against... what she called Trump's illegal deportation. I don't see where any of this is illegal, Senator, emphasizing that all individuals, including those here illegally, and are killing Americans, are entitled to due process. Really? No, they're not. They're not citizens.
Speaking at a joint session of the Alaska legislature, Murkowski also criticized Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, for its role in reducing the size of government. So is this what she did with her speech, bashing Trump? Okay, we know you don't like him. Okay, that's great. He doesn't like you, you don't like him, that's fine.
But it seems to me that there are other things that could be talked about in a joint session of the legislature from our senior senator in Washington than the fact that you don't like Trump. I understand that you don't have to tell me I know that Previously, Murkowski had estimated that 100 federal jobs had been eliminated in Alaska, including approximately 30 positions in the U.S. Forest Service. That would account for less than 0.7% of the state's federal workforce.
During the Biden administration, Murkowski did not publicly address the loss of thousands of private sector jobs that resulted from the cancellation of oil leases and North Slope situations. Bans. There were, what, 69 separate actions against the state of Alaska? Senator, what happened? We didn't hear anything from you. And if we did, what did you say about it? This guy basically tied your state up and tied us up. And I know you love Alaska. I don't doubt that.
She made federal employment a focal point of her speech, noting that Alaska has one of the highest per capita rates of federal workers in the country. She acknowledged concerns about the $36 trillion national debt, but didn't directly link it to government spending. And then she went on with a list of accomplishments that Suzanne Downing said were mostly Dan Sullivan's. Varkowski expressed strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Criticizing the Trump administration for cutting such initiatives, she cited the cleanup of toxic native lands in Alaska funded through the Environmental Justice Program as an example. And then she went on and on. She briefly mentioned Senator Sullivan, but didn't acknowledge Representative Nick Begich. It's her own party.
the newest member of Alaska's congressional delegation, and by contrast, in her speech to the legislature last year, she effusively praised then-Representative Mary Peltola. We're going to have... Nick Vegich, Representative Vegich, on the show this week. So we'll talk to him. Overall, her speech followed a similar structure, closely mirroring her address from 2024. Okay, so that's what...
Senator Murkowski did, and the fact that she is railing against these deportations, I have to scratch my head and wonder, what are you talking about? What due process are you talking about? These are violent criminals that need to be kicked out of our country and never to return. We'll be back.
The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio 650 KENI. Look at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday afternoon. Steady traffic around the Anchorage Bowl. Major slowdown at the Midtown intersections on the New Sewer Highway. There wasn't... All right, welcome back. Let's go to Matt Haney from the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Matt, thanks very much for calling in. How are you? Doing well. Thanks for having me on the show, Mike. Well, good.
I keep hearing about this volcano and reading about it, and it looks like it can happen at any time. Is that your assessment? Today it's been having a few earthquakes. Terribly active seismically today, but we've been tracking it very closely over the past year, and it's been having elevated earthquakes. The ground has been inflating at the volcano. Snow and ice has been melting. This all points to magma has been intruded beneath the volcano, and it looks most likely that an eruption will...
possibly happen at Mount Spur in the coming weeks to months. Okay, and I remember back in 1992... When it decided it was going to erupt, and it was pretty dramatic. I remember seeing this black cloud coming across the inlet, and then we were covered with about a quarter of an inch of ash. Is that something? thing that we might see again? Yes. The unrest at the volcano that we've been tracking over the past year, we've looked at all the data streams that have been coming in and
The most likely scenario we see in the coming weeks to months is an eruption like the one that happened in 1992. And I didn't move to Alaska until 2007, but there are scientists here at AVO who are also here. on August 18, 1992, and remember that ash fall. And I suppose many longtime residents remember that day very clearly. And so that's the indications from...
From the data, last week, the news that happened was we'd been tracking this earthquakes, inflation of the ground, melting of snow and ice at the summit. But then for the first time, we flew a plane around the volcano and measured... elevated gas emissions from the volcano. So that was the new piece of data last week that was just another supporting piece of evidence that this unrest is progressing. So as it progresses, I guess, is there a point, Matt, at which you say it's imminent?
when you do your calculations and stuff. Is there any warning that we could possibly get, you think? Yes. So that's... One aspect of volcanoes that we have in our favor is that they show many signs of their progression towards eruption, especially volcanoes like Mount Spur. We're currently at our color-code yellow alert level advisory, and we have two more levels above that, which is orange watch would be the next one, and then red warning. That would be when the volcano erupts.
But before we get to that, there are additional signals that we're looking for very closely, and the one I wanted to highlight is called volcanic tremor. We haven't seen that yet, but as the volcano... decides to progress even further than on our seismic network out there. We have 11 real-time instruments streaming data continuously.
we'll start to see signals that are different than little earthquakes like we've seen so far. It's more of a continuous shaking of the ground. And that gives us the next signal that we're moving even closer to an eruption. And to put that in context... In 1992, when Spur erupted, the scientists at AVO at that time began seeing that signal three weeks before it erupted the first time in June 1992. And then another eruption.
close by to Anchorage readout in 2009, and I was at AVO at that time, we began seeing that volcanic tremor signal two months before it erupted. So that particular time frame can vary. Volcano to volcano and eruption to eruption. But that gives you kind of a perspective on why we're seeing weeks to months. If we see that signal emerging in our data, then... we'll know that this volcano, that the ascent of magma beneath it is really progressing and moving towards the surface.
Well, this is really good information to have. Now, we learned from last time, don't fly planes in it. We almost lost a big jet. The last time, unfortunately, the pilot got the engine restarted. So this volcanic ash is very corrosive. It gets on your windshield, and you better wash the windshield off. Don't use your wipers because it'll scratch the glass. It's very corrosive. You shouldn't be breathing it in. I mean, there's lots of problems. Is there a website?
or anything that people can go to, Matt, to maybe figure out how to prepare? Yes, there's a great website, which is hosted by the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. And I'll just give you the URL quickly. It's very small, ready.alaska.gov. Go there, and on that page, there's links to an ASH preparedness brochure for the community.
There's also a link to some frequently asked questions about Mount Spur and volcanic ash. And then there's also a fact sheet that AVO produced on Mount Spur. So lots of good information at that website. We also... have links to it from our own website. And you kind of covered some of the preparedness that is being advised now that in addition to our basic disaster kit that we should have because we live in Alaska and we have...
many different types of natural disasters. We can supplement that for possible ash fall with dust masks for ash fall. You know, spare oil, air and oil filters, and then also, you know, washer fluid for vehicles. And as you said, the ash, it's very abrasive and, you know. We don't want to, you know, if there is asphalt, we don't want to take a, you know, try to wipe it off of a vehicle. You'd want to use water to wash it off. That's the best way to keep it from scratching the...
from scratching the vehicle. So those are the steps that we can take right now for preparedness. And then also, like you said, a big impact to our city. if there's ash fall like there was in 1992 to aviation and the operations of the airport. In 1992, the ash fall in August 1992 caused the airport to close for 20 hours. So that's going to be a big impact. Yeah.
So, and that's just from ash wall on the ground. There's also, you know, the rerouting of planes from the ash cloud. But any particular eruption, you know, the ash is going to go where the... The weather of that day and the winds are blowing, and it turned out in August 1992 they blew over Anchorage, but there were two other explosions in 1992.
that didn't cause ashfall in Anchorage because the wind was either blowing to the north or to the northeast. So in that case, it's something that can affect many different parts of south-central Alaska. Sure can. Matt, we appreciate it very, very much for taking time with us today and giving us some good information. We'd like to stay in touch with you as we all kind of look at this thing. I'm glad you're on the job. Thank you so much.
looking out for us. Awesome. Thanks, Mike. It was great to talk to you. Same here. Same here. Matt Haney from the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Wow. A lot of good stuff there, Darrell. Absolutely. We might want to take the segment with Matt and do it as a separate little podcast.
and just label it as such so that people, if they want to be brought up to speed on this volcanic activity, they'll get the latest information. I'll work on that and get that out there, Mike. Alright, time for us to take a quick break. We will be right back. Mike Porcaro, behind the mic of your 50,000-watt blowtorch. News Radio 650, KENI. Live from Anchorage, it's your news and information blowtorch. On your phone
Welcome, welcome. 33 in Anchorage, sunny, at least up here at the Ponderosa. 37 in Palmer, 30 in Soldatna, 35 in Homer, 32 in Talkeita, Fairbanks at 14, minus 11 up in Prudhoe. 49 in Seattle, 54 in New York. Akaroa, New Zealand, 57. Pensacola, Florida is 69. Tampa, 73. Tifton, Georgia, 69. And Tokyo. It's 37. And you know what it's doing in Tokyo, Mike? Hold up. Do you know what it's doing in Tokyo? It's raining. No, it is snowing on my cameras. I am watching snowfall in Tokyo right now.
Oh my gosh, Crash is going to be absolutely pleased. Don't be too delighted. Did my cackle go out over the air? I'm sorry, my bad. Yeah, it is like seriously big flake snow in there. Oh, wow. It's going to make him feel like home. You know, he could have stayed here for free and gotten snow. This is just awesome. Maybe there's a Japanese equivalent to the Anchorage Assembly.
Oh, that's funny. Wouldn't that scare you? I wouldn't be able to understand them, and they still make me feel bad. Exactly. Let's go to Tom. Hi, Tom. Yeah. Did he go to Tokyo to watch the baseball game? No, he went to Tokyo on a trip, a vacation, took the family. Okay. Well, I just got my representative, Andrew Gray, legislative update. that newsletter here. And he's got an unflattering picture of Alaska Senator Rob Nunt in the USC debut, I guess. And he's got his mouth open.
I guess he's yelling obscenities or he's yelling, you want to tax the oil and just bring him away after the death. Now, who sent this? Oh, Gray, Representative Andrew Gray. Okay. Yeah, so he had a newsletter, you know, he's fighting, congressmen begging about cuts from President Trump and federal funding, and he's screaming about fighting back about federal payoffs.
Is he running for office or just complaining? I don't know. Is he up for an election again? I didn't vote for him the first time and don't want to vote for him again. I mean, I don't know. It would be interesting to find out why he's doing that. It's like, well, you know, take a seat, guy. I mean, what are you going to do about it?
Yeah, but it's, you know, they have a little thing from Kirk Rose from the Anchorage Community Land Trust on there about how new Alaskans, meaning IE immigrants, are not as lazy as Alaskan-born counterparts because they're 39% more likely to participate in the workforce than their Alaska-born counterparts. Yeah, you know, what can I say? I've been here 55 years, so I guess I'm lazy now.
But I haven't noticed any big cuts in the federal government yet up here, so I don't know what he's talking about. He's just mouthing the same drivel that most of the progressives are mouthing. They've got nothing, Tom. This is the problem. They've got nothing. They're in disarray. They've got no direction. They've got no direction. They've got no answers.
They don't even know enough to ask a question. That's the problem. We have to be grateful for the fact that demon crats aren't covered under the Endangered Peaches Act. So we don't have to extend... Hacks, there are many. Increasingly heard. Okay. All right, Tom. Appreciate the call. Thank you. All right. 522-0650. That's the phone number. It's 512. We're going to get that segment I did with Tom Haney from the Alaska Locano Observatory up as a separate podcast, which is great.
And we look forward to doing that. If you haven't heard it, there was a good interview with Tom, Matt rather, and he gave us a lot of great information. And there is a website. Ready.Alaska.gov. Good website, too. And you can basically see what you need to do in case of a volcano. And it sounds like we're going to get one at some point here. They're monitoring it. Right now it's a yellow. The next phase would be orange and then red.
And when it's red, it's not good. But the one thing that gave me a little bit of hope, Darrell, was when Matt said, depends on the wind. If the wind is blowing away from Anchorage, we're going to be spared the ash fall. And we can cross our fingers and hope on that. Yeah, because I really don't want to see that volcano make an ash of itself. Oh, I am wearing off on you, Mike. I love this. I figured I'd say it before you did.
Got a note here from JR. He says, as an additional note about the ash, people should also consider their air filters on their vehicles. The newer vehicles are prone to dirt and dust. being sucked into the engines, especially those that have turbochargers. I intend to buy extra filters for both my vehicles to be on the safe side. One can also take the filters out and use an air compressor
to blow them down. Just a thought. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate that. He is right. Just, you know, Mike had a couple of callers call in to say that they've gone to our local dealers to get backup air filters. And, boy, they are getting rare out there. You might want to go order online or put an order in at one of your local areas, your favorite mechanic, and have them order them in advance for you.
And you might also want to think about a mask. I know saying masks kind of gets everybody, what? Let me tell you what. If you've got volcanic ash in the air, you want to wear a mask. That stuff is toxic and it will do bad things to you. Think about what it can do to paint and windows. Think about what happens and what it can do to your lungs.
So you want to make sure you have a mask, maybe some goggles, whatever. And, you know, try not to be outside, obviously, if possible. Don't forget your pants.
The other thing, and make sure your pets are inside, too. The other thing is when you wash, you know, you've got to wash your cars off or wash anything off that's got ash on it with water because if you try to rub it off, it's going to... scratch but when that ash gets wet it reminds you of beach sand it's heavy and I remember cleaning out gutters
Back in 1992, I couldn't get Mrs. P up on the ladder. She told me to go up there. And I had a garden hose, and I'm wetting this stuff down, trying to wet it down through the gutter system. And, you know, whatever was left up there, I had to try to shovel out or grab out. And it was just heavy. It felt like beach sand. So it's not fun. It's not the kind of thing you really want to deal with.
Hopefully, if we do have one of these eruptions, and it looks like it's kind of not if but when at this point, the wind blows the other way. But they're watching it over at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, and our hats go off to those folks. They're doing good work for us. They're trying to keep us safe and trying to give us the information that we need. So, Darrell, did you go to the website?
Oh, yeah, I went to that Ready website. I actually had it bookmarked and linked from another place. Elmendorf has it on their main page as a place to go to. Got great information on it. It also gives you daily updates on it. It's an excellent site. Okay, and then we are going to have Matt Haney's interview as a separate podcast. Almost up. Give me about another five minutes. Okay, well, we'll put it up there, and then when it's up...
Just let us know, and people can go to it and listen to it. It's really some very, very good information, and we appreciate that. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Mike and Crash now. Be a part of the show on News Radio 650 KENI.
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Senator Loki Tobin. She's the chair of the Education Committee in the Senate. And let's just put it this way. She wants to see as much money as possible spent. on education without any sort of metrics for measurement or accountability or anything like that. I've not heard her say that, and she has. It's not widely known. But I don't think she's ever said it. Anyway, there are some uniform rules in the legislature adopted by the House and Senate. It prohibits political messages.
on a tire on the house floor. But evidently it doesn't prohibit mugs. And Senator Tobin has a mug. on her desk, which says the future is queer. Now, I mean, I don't know what the good senator's orientation is, nor do I care. That's her personal business. But I think that's exactly where it belongs. It's her personal business, and I don't want it to be any of mine. So it would be nice if she kept her personal business personal.
Historically, according to Suzanne Downing, it's considered a derogatory label. It's been embraced by many in the LGBTQ plus community as a positive and inclusive term, but generally the LGBTQ plus community only accepts its use by they them.
and not by others. As far as we know, Senator Tobin does not have children, but she is the point person for education funding, which deals with children that doesn't mean if you don't have kids you don't know anything about them but it's always probably you know situation where you know if you could watch your kids be educated you probably have more skin in the game so to speak She's also been seen wearing, and again, this is her business,
hat that says project trans and again if it's on her own time and wherever she is that's again that's her business she can do as she wishes and she should she's an American but she said something that was interesting she said Bathrooms that are reserved for girls is a form of terrorism against trans kids. Now see, there's something wrong there.
At least in my way of thinking. And I have a feeling that this legislature is going to be on a collision course with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who has said there's two genders. And he's issued executive orders as such. And if this legislature isn't careful, and some of the school districts aren't careful, comply with what he wants done they're going to lose their federal funding and you know while
I don't know if that's the bulk of the money that we get. I don't think so. But there's an awful lot of federal money that comes into Alaska. And the legislature depends on that. So does our school district. So does our city. So you've got these people that are running around flaunting this and being mad at Trump and yelling at him and all of the other things. But meanwhile, he issued an executive order.
And I guess what he's saying is you can either take it or leave it, and if you want to leave it, then you can not take the money. And I think that they're playing a dangerous game. the legislature is. Again, I don't care what the individual members think or do or act or what their orientations are. That's their business. And they should be left to their business but when you start bringing it into the legislative halls and trying to say this is okay even though you've got rules that say it's not
then I think that becomes problematic. We'll be back. The alert level remains an advisory of the color-coded yellow for Mount Spur, the volcano seen with a small steam plume coming from the summit. Elevated activity continues. Alaska Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski are reintroducing the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitor.
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Anchorage. Alright, welcome back. It is 531-522. And Darrell, you brought up an interesting point over the break about what Senator Tobin was talking about. She said that... Bathrooms that are segregated, girls-only bathrooms are, what did she say, it's a form of terrorism. Against trans kids. Right. To me, it's the girls who are being terrorized. It's their bathroom that's invaded by a boy. That's where the terror is. If the trans student is in terror, that's...
on their own. I mean, they're the ones who put themselves in there. And if it's because they had to go into the other bathroom, that's why they have the mixed bathroom. You know, the no-denomination one, the little tiny one that's by itself. But the trans kids, especially the... boys going into the girls' bathrooms, the terror is on the girls' side. So you want to say terrorism? That's where the terror is. Well, I would think so. And again, the other point is...
Your business is your business. If you're gay or you're not gay or you're trans or whatever you happen to be, that's your business. But when you start advertising it... then you make it somebody else's business. It's everybody's. And if you're in the legislature, there are specific rules about political signs and everything else. So, again, follow the rules.
And Mike, just an FYI for you, that interview with Matt Haney, the research geophysicist at the USGS, is now up as a separate podcast. Right now they can get it. Okay, great. And there's lots of good information. in that. Well, the election's coming up and the school board races are on and it's a city-wide race. And there's two candidates running. One is Alex Rosales and the other is Mark Anthony Cox. And they're running against the incumbents.
Rosales is running against Marco Bellamy. And Mark Anthony Cox is running against Kelly Lessons. And it's interesting. There's a piece today that David Boyle wrote. He's talking about Margo Bellamy, who is the president of the school board, and she spent 43 years with the district, and he has a great article in Must Read Alaska today about what does she stand for.
And so that's kind of an interesting piece. If you haven't read it, you should. But the one thing that I wanted to mention was the bar that they set. Early proficiency reading, the percentage of grade three students proficient in the English language arts on the state summary test. She said we'll increase from 32.4%. Okay, so what, 68% of the kids are not? Audit level, I guess, in May of 2023 to 46.4% in May of 2028. That's pathetic. In the eighth grade, math.
41.5% of our eighth graders should be proficient in math by 2028. Right now only 34.5% are efficient as of 2023. So what happens to the other 58% of eighth graders? So this is your school board at work. This is the kind of goals that they're setting. Hardly aspirational. I mean, truly, it's pretty sad when you think, well, you know, less than half the people are going to be proficient. What are we teaching them? Well, let's go to Jody. Hi, Jody.
Hi, Mike. You know, it's interesting that they want to flaunt the idea that they're gay or whatever, or queer. as she so boldly put it. But if they do this and Trump decides to cut off funding to the state of Alaska, who's going to pay for it? We are. Well, somebody's going to have to pay for it or they're going to have to cut it. But wait, they don't know how to cut. No, they don't. No, they don't know how to cut.
They don't know how to cut. All they know how to do is spend. That's right. And so we're the ones that get stuck with the bill. Sure. That's exactly right. So I get more and more frustrated over all of this because it just keeps... coming and coming and coming, and they just keep playing. So the whole thing is just very frustrating to me. So they stand up for themselves.
or so they think, but they never stand up for the people that put them into office to begin with. They're constituents, right? Exactly. The people they work for. Exactly. The people that they work for. Because they really don't care about the people that they work for. No. Well, I mean, why would they? They've been getting away with it forever, so why would they care now? Right. Yeah, I just get more and more upset about the whole thing all the time. I just wish that...
the voters would figure it out and quit voting them into office. I just, I'm really frustrated about the whole dang thing. Well, I guess... Maybe more people should become frustrated and angry, and maybe things will change. I always hope that they do, but somehow I'm always usually disappointed. Yep. Well, thanks for listening, Mike. And I don't know, did you guys ever figure out if there was a problem with the ballot or... Well, we got Angelica who called in late...
last night. She sent me a text or an email today saying that it wasn't a bond issue. It was basically an assessment for snow plowing and snow hauling. And so therefore, since it was only affecting that one district, this district. was really essentially voting to pay for it or not pay for it. So we weren't involved, and there was no full faith and credit of the city since there was no borrowing taking place. Okay. All right.
Okay, well, good luck. I hope that everybody starts to figure it out. I'm speechless at this point. Thanks for listening. Have a good time. All right, well, thank you. All right, let's go to Eric. Eric, I understand, according to this note here, that you are gay and you're... We welcome your comments. Go ahead. Well, first of all, thank God I don't live in Anchorage because I'd be so mad at the school district right now. It would just upset me to no end.
One comment to you and then one comment about the subject earlier. Sure. The comment to you is please stop lumping gay and lesbian people with the rest of that alphabet soup garbage. Okay, you know, and for that, you're absolutely right. If you're talking about transsexuals, say transsexuals, because that's not us. I have zero to do with that community. Most of the people in the rest of the alphabet soup thing are straight people that have a fetish. I am sick and tired.
of being lumped in with them because it's not fair to us. We got our equality and we're happy with it. And if you haven't noticed, we've shut the heck up. Yeah, well, you're living your life. I mean, nobody's bothering you, and nobody should bother you. Enjoy your life. Nor should anybody bother you for your whatever it is. Yeah, that's your business. dumb politician who thinks that she can showboat by using us as her qualifier is just ridiculous.
Number one, queer is a negative. When I was growing up, if you called me that, I would have punched you in the nose. Well, that was always something that was negative. It was never a positive term. So how she's getting away with that is beyond me because it's just darn right rude. Okay, number one. Number two, what the heck? Of course, women should have their own bathrooms. Men should have theirs. If you want to take upon yourself to have separate issues, go ahead and deal with that separately.
but that means you are making that choice. Okay? Correct. So please, please stop lumping us in with that. Well said, Eric. Well said. I jumped on Amy about this, too, by the way. That's okay. You make a good point. Anyway, good show. Thank you for letting me have my say. You have a great day. Thank you, Eric. I appreciate your call. Thanks. Okay, let's go to Chuck. Hi, Chuck. Hey, Mike. How are you doing? I'm good. Thanks.
You know, all these people that, the funny thing is all these people that are pushing the kids to change their sex or become trans and everything at like six, seven, eight years old, they're all the ones that are yelling at these 20-year-old Doge people are too young. and not experience and get involved in their stuff. Right, exactly. I mean, how does that work? You know, if you're old, if you're mature enough at six or seven or eight,
Decide what sex you are. I'm pretty sure at 20 years old, you know how to run a computer and figure things out. You probably could run the country. Who knows? It just boggles me. And like the guy said, you know. And, you know, gays are gays. Don't lump them with all that other stuff. And, you know, we can all get along. You know, I know gay people. I have no problem with them, you know. You know, it's just.
You know, these people that are like, you know, the ones that want to protect the trees because the trees can't say anything, go after them to help the trench, you know? And it's just like, just leave it alone. Let us all live our life. Exactly. Exactly. And don't appropriate somebody else into your system. And I guess that's kind of what he was saying.
Quit using other people, you know. Some people speak for themselves. You don't need to speak for them. I agree. Well, still nobody in the bike lane. I'm waiting for that this year. Yeah, well, this place, hopefully we can get some new people, you know. I always hope it's kind of like Christmas morning, you know. Coming down the stairs to see if there's any presents under the tree, and all I get are socks. You know? God, yeah. And lately, it's only holy socks, too. Exactly.
At my age, I don't mind socks now. I actually look forward to them. All right, Chuck. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. You have a great day, Mike. All right. It's 545. Let's take a break. Call Mike. Call Crash. Call 907-522-0650. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday evening. Steady and heavy traffic around the Anchorage Bowl. There is a major slowdown at the new Seward Highway traffic. Climb near 40 by Thursday. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist.
Aaron Morrison News Radio 650 KENI 548-522-0650 President Trump today released 80 thousand JFK assassination files the administration released these related to the President Kennedy's assassination this evening triggering a feeding frenzy among amateur historians, conspiracy buffs, and experts who have studied the events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. And I remember that day quite well. I was in school. And I remember the teacher saying, everyone come in and take your seats.
And she flipped on the intercom, which was carrying one of the New York radio stations. It was continuous coverage. And we'd heard that the president was shot. And then a little later on, we heard that the president died. And then it was amazing. I mean, we all got up. The teacher dismissed us and said, it's time to go home.
And so we all walked out of that school. And usually, you know, when kids leave school, there's lots of yelling and running and all that. Everybody walked out quietly, and you could have heard a pin drop. The silence was eerie, and it was just, it was unbelievable. An unbelievable moment in a very bad way.
It's not immediately clear whether any new information about the death of the 35 president was covered in those files, most of which appeared to relate to the initial investigation of the assassination by the Warren Commission in 1964. That commission, helmed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy with a high-powered rifle.
from the sixth floor of the Texas school depository overlooking Dealey Plaza as the president's motorcade passed below. And if you've ever been there, that building I believe is still there, I've seen it. It's a red brick building, and there's a certain sense of eeriness, at least for me, when I saw that building for the very first time. 550, 522-0650. The president is also saying that Biden used an auto pen.
to sign pardons and everything else. They were void that it has to be signed by the president. Well, yes and no, I guess. The president has to sign... bills the president has to sign, important documents. The auto pen is something that is used for constituent letters and things that are not Not important, not parts of the ship of state. In fact, Thomas Jefferson actually invented something like the auto pen, only it was called the polygraph.
And what it was, was a pen that was connected to five other pens that would... you know trace his signature as he wrote as he signed a document those five other pens were loaded with documents underneath them and these pens would move and sign his name to the other documents and they had five of them they were connected by wires and all that and he called it a polygraph and so
He did that for letters and things of that nature, but to my knowledge, he always signed everything that needed to be signed. For instance, laws and things of that nature, the president needs to sign them. There's nothing... that I could find in, you know, maybe somebody has a... better look at the Constitution or knows more about the Constitution than I do. But there's nothing that I could find in the Constitution that said the President had to sign a pardon. It said he has the power to pardon.
And there's an interesting difference. Maybe it's parsing words here. But if it tells me that I've got to sign something, then I've got to sign it. And if I don't sign it by hand... then it's void. But according to pardons, it says he has the power to pardon. So could he pardon somebody by just telling them that? I guess. Can he designate that? I don't know if he can designate it, but he can certainly say I'm pardoning so-and-so.
But there's nothing that I could see that said he had actually hand signed the pardon. So what will come of this? I don't know, but of course there's lawyers and more lawyers and even more lawyers looking at this, and I'm sure that everybody's got an opinion on it, but as I say, I didn't see anything. that said he actually, that Biden actually had to sign it. He has the power as president to do it. So who knows? I mean, what do I know, right?
I'm just telling you what I read, and I'm telling you what I think, and I could be wrong. It's happened before, but we'll see. And you know that's true, Daryl, every once in a while. To be honest, I don't think I've ever heard you be wrong, Mike, so I'm going to have to go back in some archives there or something. Yeah, it's interesting. Let's go to Barry. Hi, Barry. Hello, Mike.
Yeah. Mike, I just wanted to make two comments. Sure. One on the auto pen. If Donald Trump can think that he classified something or made some material classified because he thought it. It should be unclassified. I wouldn't worry about the auto pin. But I'm a 50-year resident. I'm a very conservative person. And I love your show, but I wanted to take issue with your comments about Lisa Murkowski and this deportation. Mike, hi.
We have to find a way of getting rid of these people. We have to find a way of getting rid of them within the law. But for the president to go after the judiciary, we're going down a shaky path. I'm a big history buff, and I'm utterly convinced that Rome started to fall when Caesar crossed the Rubicon. At that point, it quit being a republic.
Do you believe that these judges have the power to tell a plane to turn around in the air? A district judge has that power? I think, yes, they do have that power. Do I think that the law should be changed so they don't, that it's easier to get rid of this scum? Hell yes. Okay, so you're not debating whether or not we need to get rid of these guys. You're just saying the method. I'm saying the method is this is spooky to me.
I mean, we have a republic. I always say that democracy is a fragile thing. And this is kind of dismantling it. I mean, do we want to go back to where President Jackson said? Judge, I'm trying to remember the first Supreme Court judge. He's made his decision. Marshall, yes. Marshall's made his decision and I've made mine. I have arms. What's he going to do? I've got the army.
We don't want to go to that point. Okay, well, we're out of time. I appreciate the call, though. Thank you. Keep up the good work, guys. Thank you. Thank you. All right, time for us to go tomorrow. Dr. Bruce Kiesling will be with us at 4 o'clock. He's going to be with you on his show momentarily at 6.05, so stick around for that, and then join us tomorrow. We'll see you then. Help. Ayuda. Bang Ju. Edem. Help.
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