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Hi, and this morning, your yes is post is going to be Rick Whitback.

Take it away, Rick.

Hey, everybody.

Good morning.

Anchorage.

Good morning.

Matthew Valley.

Good morning.

Keenai Peninsula.

As Daryl said, filling in for the incomparable Amy Domboski the next three days, bit glossy

on the roads on the way in this morning.

I almost slid through an intersection in two-wheel drive.

Yeah, quick change.

Four-wheel drive it was.

So when you're on the road on the way to work or dropping off the kiddos for school,

make sure you are cautious because I almost wasn't.

Hey, guys, today we're going to walk through the decisions that are about to hit your wallet,

your kids' classrooms, and your vote.

Ballots are out in Anchorage.

You're being asked to approve about $155 million in bonds and taxes.

At the same time, the school district is crying that they're facing a $90 million gap.

Kind of the second verse, same as the first or fifth verse, same as the fourth, first

four, whatever.

$90 million, they're closed in schools, they're cutting programs, but they're really just

kicking the can down the road, right?

In Juno lawmakers are arguing over spending and whether they're actually fixing anything,

they're all up for re-election in the house, half of them are up for re-election in the

Senate.

Is this going to be a do-nothing legislative session or will actual work actually get

done?

It was nice, huh?

In Washington, who's working airport security is a big deal, especially for those of us

that have to travel for work or pleasure?

Election law, border policy, all that stuff's going on.

We have a little war in Iran that Trump is winning, and then we lost Chuck Norris.

March Madness is down to the sweet 16, and in Alaska high school basketball championships

were won here in three and four A.

So, lots of questions for you this morning, but the simple one, let's light up the phones

with this.

Who do you trust to solve all the problems that are going on right now?

Do you trust local government, state government, federal, new candidates, incumbents?

Who's going to solve it, a citizen uprising?

I mean, let's just get to it.

Lines are open.

I want to hear.

907-522-0650, news radio-650-K-E-N-I.

You mentioned that Chuck Norris passed and a very sad thing, and then I realized, I don't

think Chuck Norris died.

I think God said, I need a break.

Chuck, come on up.

Yeah, because obviously we know Chuck makes everything rotate, so I mean, it just was

that thought.

You know, I think it was time for Chuck to take a break from being a badass here on Earth

and go up there and let the angels know who's in charge, right?

Oh, man.

Can you see Gabriel in him, leg wrestling?

I mean, this would be quite the game there.

I don't think they'll have any beer pong, but they might have communion wine pong, so you

know, last of the legislatures, reason to try to shoot for there.

You know, once Chuck's done up there, maybe he can come down and challenge the, you know,

let's do it.

I like the way you're thinking there.

Could you imagine that Chuck Norris for governor?

I, yeah, I mean, I'd run for Lieutenant on that, on that ticket, it would be a guarantee

W.

All right.

As Rick said, guys, give us a call if you want to ask him or give him your opinion on

that question, or some of the other topics that he mentioned, otherwise Rick's got lots

of information.

I have never seen a man with more information spilling out of his head than that.

Well, here's the good news.

We can go on news, you know, we did see a story hit here just a little bit ago, where

a plane collided with a fire truck on the approach at LaGuardia, tragic incident.

So we'll have some time to talk about that and the details coming out on that.

But LaGuardia is actually closed until about two o'clock or so here today.

So if you're going in and out of the Eastern seaboard here in the next couple days, probably

still going to get a little bit chaotic.

Hey Warren, I understand you're on the line.

Let's go to you right now.

Hey, good morning.

Yeah, this is Warren.

I'm glad you're following him.

We love the show.

Well, I'm excited to guest host the next three days and then Glenn Beagle's going to

come in on Wednesday.

I'm sorry, on Thursday, Friday and next Monday, well, Amy's taking a well-deserved break.

What's on your mind?

Oh, well, first thing we chucked in oil was, this is what happened a long time ago.

Now, 94, I guess, I was stationed at Atlanta at NAS Atlanta and Dobbins and the work of

a Lockheed there, and Chuck Norris walked into my office right there, was running the

customer service desk and walked up to me and said, hey, since I'm filming a movie and

I need a hundred of your soldiers.

He says, well, pay them $10 each and then if they can do it on the first take, we roll,

you know, open up the hottest nightclub in Atlanta and let you guys have a good night in

the town.

No pressure there.

Yeah, I saw them, a hundred soldiers, I was vulnerable.

My boss went on to make a whole bunch of more movies with them and the name of that

movie wasn't based on USA.

I love that movie.

It's a good movie.

Yeah, we got to meet Chuck and we did it on the first take.

We were in the Atlanta scene with all the tanks, so I really think.

But he treated us to the movie, he was all ten bucks and it was absolutely fantastic

meeting them.

That's a cool story, Warren.

I mean, that's one of those that random, you know, random walk-in, right, from a big

star, ends up being one of those things that you get to tell everybody about the rest

of your life.

That's a really cool story.

And I'd like to say tanks a lot, Warren.

What a great scene.

That was good.

That was good, Darrell.

Oh, it was.

Yeah, we could use Chuck Myers, Governor right now and to be honest, we don't want this

legislature to do anything except pass a budget because everything they're doing is

making Alaska worse.

I'll tell you this, this year has been almost a twilight zone-ish, right?

I mean, you have Kathy Giesel opposing a gas line, a Bill Wilkowski supporting a gas

line.

Yeah.

I mean, if that's not twilight zone, I don't know what is.

Anything else on your mind, Warren?

No, really.

But I'll let somebody else talk through tomorrow.

Sounds good, man.

Appreciate the call and call in anytime.

Okay.

Thank you.

You got to have a great day.

Great day.

All right, man.

Thanks.

So Warren makes a really good point, right?

I mean, like the legislature needs to do a budget, and that's really all they have to

pass.

My guess, not a whole lot more is going to be done because they're such a fracture.

They can't give Governor Dunlavia a win on the way out.

They can't do anything that's going to be super controversial.

And so when they start talking about end of session, this and end of session, that end

of session is where good legislation goes to die and bad legislation generally tends

to pass.

So if they pass a budget and it's balanced and it gives some level of PFT, which we'll

talk about, I'm sure here in the show, then you know, they've done their quote unquote

job and they haven't harmed the state of Alaska.

Now that you, when you mentioned the PFT there, that was actually one of the things that

has always been in my cross since they've started playing with the game with it.

But what I've noticed is, you know, used to be the PFT was called the Third Rail, right?

Right.

Nobody touched the Third Rail.

It was going, you were dead, okay?

Yeah.

What I've noticed is, is once we started having these power problems in Alaska where we

didn't know where our power was coming from, the Third Rail all of a sudden lost its

electrical power.

Nowadays, that Third Rail is dead.

They are, I mean, this is an election year and the first thing they did is they zero

did.

Took it away completely.

No.

Oh, we'll put it back.

No, no, no, no.

You can say you're going to put it back.

But right now, when I look at that paper, you're telling me I'm getting nothing.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So it's like the Third Rail, the electrical is gone, you know?

And it's just crazy that we're at this point when it's an $80 billion fund that was meant

to be paying us back.

And this is literally what it was meant for.

We were getting our share back to help us through these hard times like we have.

Couldn't agree more.

Gerald, let's take a break.

Figure out what's going on here the rest of the day as we will come back to the Amy Domboski

show here on NewsRadio 650K and I break time coming up.

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Back to the show here, Rick Whitbach filling in for Amy Domboski, 12 degrees outside,

little chilly, not cold, little glassy in the intersections.

Be careful as you're out driving around here this morning.

We're going to go straight back to the phones.

A good friend of mine on it.

Ken, welcome to the Amy Domboski show.

You got a second rate host, but a first rate caller.

What's going on, man?

No, I say a first rate host, Rick.

You asked a question and actually made me, made my guts clinch.

Where he's going to solve this local national or whatever.

You should be able to have some vague idea of an answer for that.

But when you ask that, I don't, because I watch the committee hearings right now,

in the state level.

And I look at who's running them, like the House Energy Committee.

Look at those two clinch bubbling heads of silliness with HB369 right now.

Are you kidding me?

We're going to force renewables in the middle of all this mess with the data center.

I can't get there from here.

Your answer to question hurts my stomach.

Do you see anybody local or national level that has the positioning and the, because I

wish the legislature just phoned it in.

I think we'd be better if they all just went to Bahamas.

We paid for vacation for four months and stay away.

Right.

I think we'd do better off.

I mean, like I said, I think if they pass a budget, which they have to, I mean, that's

the one constitutional requirement.

And then stop.

I think most voters would be like, all right, you have a budget.

You haven't done harm.

Now, do I think the good legislation is still sitting out there?

I certainly do, but do I think it's going to get passed?

I certainly don't.

And so, you know, again, end of session is when the shenanigans come out to play, right?

The trade-offs come out to play.

You and I both know that.

Most of the listeners here on the show know that.

So at what point in time do you say, okay, go do what you have to do.

And then shut it down.

Thoughts?

Well, I have a painful experience the past couple of weeks.

I've got some legislators on text and they've been committee hearings and they're not doing

anything anyway.

So they text you back.

And here's why I keep hearing from Republican members of our state legislature.

We're not in a position to do anything about this.

So they're just basically, they're sitting there and gave up because, you know, you send

them pertinent questions to asking committee hearing to get things things resolved.

They don't have the acumen expertise to ask the questions, that's the problem.

And so when you shuffle, and I'm not saying I got a great big old head, but these are

things we've studied and you ask them questions that need to be answered on whatever legislation

they're discussing, you know, the topic we got.

And they bring in the cheerleader bubble heads as, you know, the people selling it as the

invited testimony.

But then they don't ask either pertinent questions, they don't bring any opposition.

So it's a really tough thing and they're all sound like they're beholden trying to

get scraps of something out of the other end of this thing, but they're not, they're not

being, they're not handling the legislation the way they should by getting the answers

before you try to pass this stuff, the bad ones you're talking about.

Sure.

To get the amendments in to take the edge off and to protect the last things, they're

not doing it.

And that bothers me greatly.

Well, I think the biggest thing that you can take away from what we watched in the legislature

this year, last year, the last, what, six or seven years is that invited testimony is

exactly that.

It's invited by whoever the sponsor is to make sure that their point is taken.

The legislature is a citizen legislature for them.

I mean, I'll say that.

But then you have these people like Lyman Hoffman that have been there longer than, you know,

I've been in the state of Alaska and I've been here a long time, right?

And so you're going to have a seed change this year with Hoffman and Stevens and others

leaving.

But they're just going to get replaced by people that have been there for 20, 30 years

as well, right?

Students is most likely, students or vans, you know, Bryce Edgeman's going to end up,

you know, stepping into Lyman's world and not a whole lot's going to change there.

I mean, you're still going to have basically a career politician or a career bureaucrat

in those seats.

You know, can I think when it's all said and done, citizen legislatures are supposed

to be, you know, temporary in nature, right?

People are supposed to come in, bring their expertise, do one or two good things get out.

And the state of Alaska has a problem with that state of Alaska has a power broker problem.

And then you get legislators that come in spouting one ideological line and they change

midstream.

And without name and names, you know exactly who the first person that everybody thinks

of is on that.

I love that kind of cake myself.

Yeah.

It's true.

And, you know, something else that stays up there and you do this and actually I'll ask

you from what I see a lot of the staffers get recycled.

And they're the real power brokers then and the lobbyists.

Yeah, certainly.

I mean, I worked in Juno for, I worked in Juno for a bit, not a long time, right?

It's just not, it wasn't what I wanted to do long term, but a good staffer.

And I'm saying a, a, a staffer like Tom Wright, who's now working on the Haleila gubernatorial

campaign, he thillured, um, um, uh, Amary Lillick, who is Bryce Edgman's chief of staff.

Those people get obscene and sometimes good, sometimes bad amounts of, um, stroke in

that building just because of the longevity because of the positions they've been in and

because they know everybody, like there are staffers right now that if I had a gun to

my head and was told that I can pick 10 people to know, you know, like within two degrees

of separation of people, I can think of one or two staffers that I would include in that

list of 10 people very, very easily because they learn everybody.

Well, one thing that I've noticed from just watching from the outside is, is, um, so

you'll, you'll get legislators in there.

You'll get staffers who've been there, like said, five, 10, seven years, 20, 20 years and

they've been working in more of the progressive leaning ones.

So that we know that's their bent.

And then we get a new Republican one that comes down, they get moved over to work with

them.

And next thing you know, because they're the ones who are in the know and let's probably

just says, Oh, how do we do this?

All of a sudden, all their stuff starts tilting to the progressive side when we wonder

why it's, it's the actual answer is, is because the people who are really pushing the paper

have their own agenda and they're like to bureaucrats in Washington.

Same thing.

I mean, certainly, I think you're right, Darryl and, and Ken, you're right.

Also in that, um, it, it doesn't change without a change, right?

And so, um, we've talked for the last, um, teen years about how do you get changes within

the legislature?

Then you start making changes and then again, people flip on you and all of a sudden,

it's, uh, it's bad policy after bad policy.

Ken, got about a minute before break, anything else on your mind?

Yeah.

I think that leads to a problem for all of us, the last ones, of being a horrible place

to do business and quite frankly, as any retiree is learning right now, it's been coming

a bad place to live because now we've got this, well, one of them is the education industrial

complex and it's costing, they don't know how much it's going to cost could be everything

for poor results.

And that's just one example, you know, and we don't have stability for living conditions

nor business conditions because of this mess.

That's not good.

People are leaving this state and, uh, and it's not just young people as retirees is people

who have, uh, choices to, you know, go work somewhere else in the middle of their careers.

Um, it's a, it's a tough place to, it's a tough place to come to right now.

I still think there's an opportunity for, uh, you know, for Alaska to experience a job

and career, uh, influx, but certainly things need to change, especially the local government,

uh, area.

And so you got to, you got to talk to later, man, hey, my buddy, all right.

When we come back after the break, I want to talk a little bit about the, uh, the anchorage

election, right, uh, $155 million or so in bonds and taxes, school funding continues

to be in the, in the, no, I want this, uh, I want you to think about these two questions

during the break.

Are we being asked to fix state failures locally?

Or are they local failures that were being asked to fix?

And then is anchorage becoming a, I'll call it a quote, tax yourself because Juno won't

or can't fix it, unquote, city or have we always been, uh, turning ourselves purple

slash blue?

Are you a yes to no one of the bonds?

At what point do you say enough is enough?

And would you rather see, now here we go, would you rather see cuts?

The services or additional taxes, going to go to break when we come back, we'll take

more of your calls here on the Abie Domboski show on news radio 650 K E and I call us 907

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And next Monday, as Amy takes a well-deserved break from the beautiful metropolis of Anchorage

and the Valley and the Peninsula.

So I'm here before we went to break Kin Huckabuck called in, appreciate Kin's call.

And I posed a couple of questions.

They were basically around the Anchorage election, taxes, bonds, control.

And whether or not you're a yes or no on the bonds, why?

What point do you say enough is enough?

I think we've been saying a lot of us that for years, unfortunately, we keep getting

how voted.

But are we being asked to fix state failures locally?

And are we becoming an Anchorage, a quote-unquote, tax yourself because Juno can't or won't fix

it, type city?

Give us a call, 907-520-650, let me know your thoughts.

You know, not only are we dealing with an Anchorage assembly race, we're also dealing

with school board elections here in the wonderful Venus Paladin Anchorage.

They talk all the time, face in a $90 million shortfall, we can't figure out how to balance

the budget.

We're not getting enough school funding.

The BSA is broken, needs to be overhauled.

We have potential teacher cuts.

They just close elementary schools, moves, Campbell Stim into the ether.

They are now for the third time in three years going to move Rika Shula from their old place

over there in their old Polaris building.

Then they went to my kids' old school, the Abeloop property, and now they're going to move

them to Lake Otis Elementary after they close down Lake Otis.

If you're a Rika Shula parent, what are your thoughts?

I mean, now you've had to bring your kiddos to three different schools in three different

years.

Is that disruptive to the learning environment?

I mean, one of the highest performing schools in the Anchorage school district is that school.

Are they, are they, are they kaput?

Or?

To me personally, I'm looking at this and watching this, and this is going to sound crazy

and it's my own personal and humble opinion, but I feel this is, this is, is a sacrifice.

They're, they're literally sabotaging the best schools, Rika Shula, out in Chuyak, there

was the ABC school.

We got the STEM school.

Every one of your top performing schools is what they're sacrificing, all in the name

of, and I'm going to say it, DEI.

They want to keep this equity and everything going on, and instead of taking the schools

and bringing them together, and I mean, back in the day when I was there, my, my, my grade

school classes in middle school classes were 30, 35 kids in a class, and the teacher could

control us why, because we listened, we respected, and they, they, they told us what we were

supposed to do, our parents, if you didn't listen, came back on you, and you would listen

after that.

But the number one thing that I've noticed is, is that they've taken to the schools like

to now, everybody's got to be in the same class.

So it's like, we, we can't have a special education class because, well, that would make

those kids feel bad.

I'm sorry.

I knew lots of special education kids when I was in school, they did not feel bad about

being in their class.

But what you do when you bring them into a normal classroom is, is you bring the pace

of the class down to their level.

An anchor school district has now taken this to an even further extreme to where they

bring in special needs students into these classes, which totally disrupt the class.

You cannot learn.

I am sorry.

You cannot learn.

So I'm going to, you know, a lot of listeners know this, my, my son is autistic.

And so, you know, he, we adopted him at birth.

He was FAS, fetal, narcotic syndrome.

He was nicotine and coke and meth and like his, his life started out rough.

We were 19 days in the hospital while he detoxed from all the crap that his birth mom put

into her body and, and, you know, harmed him with, right?

As a result, he's an amazing child.

He's 11, almost 12 years old.

But he's, he has an IEP and because of the, because of the, the damage that was done

when he was in vitro, he's not as, um, he's not as, he's not as up on the, on the education

side.

Let's just say as a lot of his peers, he really struggles in school now.

I love the fact that over the last two years, because I'm an involved parent, I've been

able to get him and pull out services, right?

So he doesn't distract the class.

He goes into class for about two thirds of the day.

The other 30s and pull out when he really struggles at math.

He doesn't do math with the rest of the class, right?

He gets that service.

They're talking about that goes away for elementary school kids.

I mean, he's going on to middle school.

It's going to be a totally different world next year.

It's going to be chaotic for him.

Um, a little bit more parental involvement going to be needed.

But I think back to those formative years, second, third, fourth, this year, fifth grade.

And Darryl, if I didn't have an active, you know, if I, first of all, if I didn't have

my wife and I advocating for kiddo, Colby would probably be further behind than he is right

now because he's one of 36 kids in a class.

There are five kids in his class with IEPs.

It's a, it's a rough situation.

If you have a child with those special services that are needed and then the district talks

about, well, we know, we can't do, uh, we can't do any more, uh, anything else for

him.

Well, so is he just supposed to fail because you can only do so much for him at home.

He needs that structure.

You know, we work with him every night.

He still struggles.

Now, don't get me wrong when I, when I was saying that because, you know, I wasn't, I

wasn't taking it.

Oh, no.

Just as, as a clarification, um, my, my family, my sister or my brother and my sister

and law have for the last 25 years taken in special needs, students, FAS, um, children.

Uh, their last two, um, um, um, I won't say her a name, but she was put into the schools

and she had a lot, basically the same rundown as what, what your, your, your adopted child

is.

Um, but she had a lot of outburst issues.

Yeah.

So large amounts of those and they would set aside and, and, and it's good to have them

socialized with the groups.

I agree with that part of it.

But when we get down to the core learning, like I said, when we used to have those classes

where there's, and when I say special needs and then you have your, your, your special

head, you've got your ones who are just a little behind, who need just a little extra

help.

And then you have your ones who are into intensive needs and those bringing them into

the group is good for their socializing.

It actually lets them feel like they're a person.

I mean, cause a lot of times they feel isolated.

I mean, that's their inside their head and they isolate themselves.

When you get them interacting, now you're opening the shell, you're allowing them to grow

and learn.

So I accept that part, but where, where I have my problem is is when they keep them

there when it literally like I said, you've got five of them in the class.

The teachers trying to deal with five of them and your, your students who are

literally on the, on the upper edge, they, they are the ones who are left sitting

there twiddling their thumbs.

Yeah, you're dummying down the classroom, right?

I mean, let's just say it, what it, what it is, you know, I've gone into the classroom.

I've observed my son and volunteered in the classroom.

And he's a very different kid when dad's in the class because he knows that there

are consequences to acting out.

And again, Colby's amazing.

He's super empathetic, he's super creative.

He just doesn't like school.

And so, you know, good on him for continuing to struggle through it, you know, good, good

on my wife for having the patience of job, you know, and then, but like if you didn't

have those services to be able to pull him out as needed, I don't know how much more,

I don't know how much more of an impact those kids in that class would create.

I had never heard of the pull out that, that is, was, that is that, that actually is

a good step to the solution that I was talking about.

So I appreciate you for, for, for bringing more information to me.

But I'll say this.

It's, it's only happening because I'm advocating like a banshee for my kid, right?

It's like, are you getting him enough time?

Are you getting him enough, you know, help?

Is he disrupting the rest of the class?

And so we have to figure out something else, because what, what they had in, you know,

first, second, third, didn't work.

I just thought of a side here, Rick, you need to do a parenting program or an on air counseling

program to get some of these other parents out there on track and maybe rolling down the

train with you, because it sounds like you guys have got this going in the right direction.

You're chugging away, but so many of them don't and, and I'm telling you man, that would

almost be a great program out there as an instructional for parents.

Maybe we can do something like that down the road, right?

So hey guys, about a minute and a half or so till break, not going to be able to take

a call right now.

But I want calls between now and the top of the hour at the top of the hour, assembly

candidate from Eagle River, Donald Handling's going to call in.

He's going to be here for a segment segment and a half, two segments.

Take your calls and then we'll continue on with the show again.

In the next segment though, let's continue on with this, this conversation about local

government.

I want to ask a couple questions, let's you think about it during the break call in 9075220650

here on the Amy Domboski show guest hosted by me, Rick Whitbeck.

The $90 million shortfall, potential teacher cuts, school closures.

Is it a funding problem or a management problem?

I have my personal opinion.

Where's the money actually going?

Is it going to the classroom?

Is it going to bloat?

And why are we always, I mean, we've been doing this now for the last 20 years.

Why are we always in quote unquote crisis mode?

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He'll be with us at the top of the hour and then we'll take more of your calls to finish

out the show on the line though right now.

Ken, Ken, welcome to the Amy Domboski show.

What's on your mind?

Well, well, well, fresh voice of conservatism, hallelujah.

Hey man, how are you?

How are you today?

I'm very, very well.

Very good to hear your voice.

Hopefully this is going to be a trend.

That's what I'll say.

Look, here's what I think.

I just wanted to comment about taxes.

Sure.

OK, fundamentally, we as citizens and government have drifted far away from the fundamental

meaning of what taxes are supposed to do, which is provide service.

Now how's that distinctly different from today?

Well, right now taxes have really provided a vehicle for state growth.

The ideology has converted the use of taxes and turned citizens into a productive source

of energy for state growth.

That's not what it was supposed to do.

Taxes are to provide service.

And what's the difference in the economy?

The difference in the economy, you tell me you could agree or not, would be when they

provide service, they fluctuate with GDP in population.

But the population goes down, and as a result, the GDP falls.

Your taxes should go down because it lowers the value of your home and lowers the necessity

of government services.

But if government tends to use it as a medium or a source of energy for state growth, then

they never go down.

They only go up because despite population or GDP, government wants to grow.

What do you think about that?

I think you're right on because what happens in a situation like we have right now here

in the state of Alaska, right, where we have out migration, you're not seeing government

say, hey, you know what, we have fewer citizens.

We have, therefore, fewer need for government services.

We should be prioritizing growing private sector economics and economy and jobs.

But instead, what they say is not a chance, have to keep government where government is,

have to continue to make government the end all, be all, right?

We can't shrink us because then we couldn't do what we need to do, which is continue to

provide for you.

Well, Ken, if there's fewer people needing fewer things, why doesn't government shrink along

with the population?

Well, I think we see if we see two answers that one because unfortunately, and there's times

where it happens and times where it doesn't, government currently is behaving in a morally

hazardous way when it comes to finances.

Number one, and number two, this is the reason we see that government, as Tom Woods would

point out, cannot be run like a business because it lacks the appropriate feedback loop

to regulate that.

So it doesn't know, essentially, if it's providing too much or too little services, what it does

know is that even if it didn't shrink or took any more money, you would still pay more

in taxes, even if it didn't grow because citizens are out migrating.

And that means there are fewer citizens to pay the same bills for government to stay

the same side, let alone, if it decides to grow.

Government, no feedback loop in the aspect that it cannot find a great way to understand,

is this an appropriate time for me to shrink so that I can maintain the economy at an

appropriate price?

Because government really has no mandate to build a better economy, but it certainly

does have a mandate to regulate or to deregulate in a fashion that lets the private sector produce

a better economy.

I guess that's my opinion.

Yeah, I think, and again, Ken, I think you're right, like there's zero chance that

government doesn't want to continue to govern at the same level, right?

Even if there's fewer people, even if there's a smaller need for services, that's why you

never see them ever voluntarily decide that the private sector should grow at the expense

of the bureaucracy, right?

That's right.

And the word voluntary is the key word, right?

They don't do it unless the pitchforks come out.

Right.

And you see a sea change in a voting populist or an outcome, right?

And that's why this Anchorage Assembly election could be one of the most important in the

last 20 years.

Keep saying that.

And I think all of us on the right side of the aisle go, well, this is the year we need

to make a change.

This is the year we need to make a change.

Well, if not now, guys, when's it going to happen?

It's not.

We have some fantastic candidates running for Anchorage Assembly.

We have some fantastic candidates running for school board.

Make the change, override the union's grip right now on Anchorage politics, override

the ENGOs grip on Anchorage politics, override the big government's grip on Anchorage politics.

Let's get back to government by the people, for the people instead of government against

the people and against good government, right?

Yeah.

I agree.

I couldn't disagree with you more, and we need citizen involvement.

It's the truth is in the end.

Too many people think it doesn't work or it doesn't count, and that is because there's

a little bit of demoralization through Morally hazardous behavior.

So well said, Rick, and I appreciate your time on the radio and it's good to hear your

voice, man.

Thanks, man.

It's always great to have you have you calling anytime, Ken.

Talk to you later.

Have a great day.

Guys, we have about a minute to go till break.

Then we come back here after the top of the hour, Donald Hanland, candidate for Anchorage

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And right now we have Anchorage Assembly candidate from Eagle River, Alaska.

My friend that I've known for, I don't know, probably darn near a decade.

Donald Handel and welcome to the Amy Domboski show.

Thanks for calling in this morning.

Anchorage, I think you're right thanks for having me.

Yeah, absolutely.

So you are a first time candidate, right?

I mean for the assembly.

What made you look at the situation right now as crazy as it is and say,

I can do this better or differently.

So I'm jumping in.

Yeah, I mean, I think I was here in Eagle River in two years.

I mean, we've had very strong representatives.

And I mean, unfortunately Scott Myers was stepping down.

And so he was one of the guys that encouraged me to run.

I've always had a passion for public service and being involved in the community on the local road board, community council.

And we just see a lot of our assembly members who are really active and able to kind of facilitate some of our problems.

That's what really pushed me.

And then it's also you see that these assembly means it's all the craziness that's going on.

And you kind of want to step into that fire and bring some practical approaches.

Well, yeah, I certainly think that should you get elected by the people out there in Eagle River,

you're going to step into a fire.

And one of them, one of the fights that you're going to jump into immediately is bonds and tax measures, right?

A lot of voters right now looking at those bonds, tax measures, trying to make sense of them.

How are you approaching the decisions and how would you govern around those decisions?

Yeah, I mean, with the bonds, I mean, those are one areas where they've definitely expanded over the left kind of decade here where I mean, it goes around the tax cap.

And so people kind of are viewing these things when at the bottom there where, hey, it's going to only increase if my taxes by $7 and people are thinking like, oh, hey, that's not too much.

I'm going to go and vote for this.

Then when you look at things in totality, like these are things that you're obligating homeowners for decade.

Right.

And I don't think people realize that.

And we're starting to see with some of these bonds a lot more rather than capital improvement projects, it's starting to become more maintenance and other things that really should be taken care of under the tax cap under the regular budget.

And that's something that's, I mean, fortunate, but it's just, it's slowly kind of been building on the backs of taxpayers here.

You know, I, I was remiss Donald and I apologize for those listeners who may not know who you are, maybe living in Eagle River, maybe in your assembly district.

And I want to talk to you.

They can call 907-520650.

We'll try to get them on the air.

But Donald Handling 101, who are you?

What's your background?

I mean, I know you've been on an active in the community, but I just jumped right into questions because I know you, man.

Yeah.

But for those people who don't, give us a little 101.

Yeah.

So my name is Donald Handling.

I'm a civil engineer, small business owner, lifelong Alaska.

And I'm really active in our community, surveying on our local road board and also in the Southport community council.

A lot of people have seen me.

You've seen the signs.

It's, it's pretty hard to miss me.

I mean, if you go, I can't any kind of community meeting.

I'm pretty much guaranteed to be there.

We've been going to every community council and actively engaging with people so that it's not about winning this campaign, but also being in the best position to serve the community.

And that's really been kind of the focus from day one of, hey, let's go attend assembly meetings.

Let's attend all these community council meetings so that from day one, I'm there to be an asset to Jared, the other assembly member from our district.

So we're, we're able to kind of be full force there working on issues that our community cares about.

And yeah, I'm running for the assembly to bring a practical approach to local government and really appreciate everyone's vote ballots are out.

When I was voting the other day, I had three people who were coming in putting the ballots in and we're saying, hey, we're voting for you too.

So I really appreciate that.

That's always a good sign, right?

Especially with all the time and effort and, you know, volunteer time that people are given to you to know that you're, that you're making an impact in that you're actually getting people to check that box next year name.

It was, it was funny.

I was watching a recent debate between you and your opponent.

And he was like, well, now I'm going to community council meetings too. And I was like, okay, good. You've been to one. That's pretty awesome.

Community council is not the, not to be all in all, but certainly a good measure of at least part of the voice of the community, right?

Yeah, I mean, as I said during the debate, I think it does put kind of a pulse on the community there.

And I mean, where we've got kind of five active community councils here.

Different areas have different issues.

And that's one of the things where when the casino question came up out in Birchwood, that where it was like, hey, I have, because I'm going to attend those meetings.

Like, hey, I know what those people, some of the issues and stuff that are going around that.

And yeah, I was kind of a little bit disappointed in my opponent there when he was calling community councils.

There's 15 retired people who show up every week because they have nothing else to do.

And I just think that it's that's completely the wrong approach to take with kind of public service here.

We should be encouraging everyone to get involved in their community council.

It's it's really a good way to get involved.

And I would say out here, you were into the act. We actually are community councils have a lot of power where we each community council sends a representative to the local road board and to our parks and

record board. And these people actually have control over budgets and spending.

And so it's not just a kind of advisory role. They are actually impacting services out here.

Donald Hamlin, the guest here on the Amy Domboski show guest hosted by Rick Whitbach.

Donald, let's talk about Anchorage's budget, right? One of the things that the assembly is in control of.

Where do you think the city's getting it right? And where could it improve?

I mean, I think across the board, I think we need to take a look at.

I mean, just budget budgeting overall. And I mean, we saw with the conservative members where they were kind of trying to make some reasonable cuts and to non labor expenses such as travel.

And we just saw it every single turn. They were being.

We're getting vetoed or not vetoed. We're getting voted down.

And at the end of the day, they actually went and added a bunch of extra spending because we've got this tax cap.

And if you don't spend up to that tax cap, then the next year it actually goes down.

And so I think we need to take a good hard look at the budget. And we saw with these meals where.

Also, they were able to go and find this money. And so I think we definitely need to take a good look at the budget kind of across the board and say, hey, do a little more line item.

And when we've got positions that are unfilled in these kind of just act as a little bit of a flesh ones for departments there.

I don't think we're very reasonable because I think voters need to be able to have an impact on what's actually being spent.

And that needs to be transparent. And so I think I mean, as far as our kind of first responders there, I think that we've done a very good job on that in terms of funding.

And we need to work on making sure that we're able to continue that.

But I think the budget overall people aren't what I'm hearing people.

People aren't really happy kind of kind of a role. They're not seen seen that impact.

And so I'd really like to dive into that.

Well, and I think I think depending on what your fellow election opportunities are, you will have a hopefully a bigger majority or at least minority to work with, right?

So let's do this guys. We're going to take a quick break. Come back with more from Donald Hanland candidate for Anchorage Assembly out of Eagle River.

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Back on line with Donald Hanland running for Anchorage Assembly out of the amazing portion of the municipality called Eagle River.

Donald really appreciate you holding through the break.

You know, we were talking a little bit about the budget and and how you would approach that.

During the land mine debate that you were on a couple days ago, there was there was a subject of new taxes that was brought up.

What were your thoughts on that then and has anything changed from the last couple days.

Yeah, I mean, we've got a lot of good response. So to kind of kid people a little bit of background when my opponent ran against Jared a year ago during the land mine debate, he proposed a sales tax that was going to allow tax relief, but just to lower value homes.

And so we were pointed out during this entire campaign that that would really impact Eagle River and to get where we've got high value homes out here.

And so we would see massive taxing tax increases when we're purchasing stuff and we would see none of the benefits.

And so during the land mine debate, he got the question first of what new taxes and he completely skipped over it.

I challenged you down on it saying, hey, this is what you said a year ago and he told people, hey, that's not on my website.

That's not something that I'm actually proposing anymore. And we called him out on it. We've got a new video where we show exactly on his website.

This is where you said it. This is where you blink to it. And it says these are your positions.

And so yeah, we've called him out on that and we're getting a lot of great responses on that because I think first and foremost, people are in profits.

We need to be honest and let people know, hey, if you're if you're for attacks, going up to it.

Yeah, I would say that integrity is probably the number one item that I look for in a candidate.

And if you're not going to be honest with your with what you're proposing, then what's going to happen if you do get in, right?

Let's talk let's talk schools for a minute. Certainly the assembly is in charge of working with the school district to finalize a budget.

School funding issue $90 million is their number that they keep throwing out front and center issue.

What are you hearing from parents and families in your district about how to approach the anchor school district?

Yeah, I mean, I think we've seen a lot of it. It seems like mismanagement where it's like, hey, we saw the largest BSA increase in state history.

And then we're like, but then this issue just keeps on coming back around.

And now we're being asked for the special levy.

And I mean, one of the biggest reasons that I've voted no on it was I believe that, hey, if we continue to do these kind of special one-time taxes, they're not going to be so special.

They're going to be something that comes back every single year.

And on the assembly, I tell people, hey, we are really limited in our ability to impact the school district.

And so one of my main recalls that I'm looking to do is break up the school board.

So we're actively electing people by district because as someone who's running, I mean, the assembly district is incredibly hard.

I can't imagine trying to run citywide for something that should be incredibly local like school board.

And so that's one of the things that I hope that we're able to get before voters because that would be a charter amendment.

Yeah, certainly.

It's darn near impossible to run for assembly in a lot of portions of the city, right?

But can you imagine running a citywide campaign?

I mean, the people that have done it and done it successfully really deserve a lot of credit.

Daryl's in there rolling his eyes.

I mean, it's I couldn't do it.

I could run for assembly.

There's no way I would ever run for school board just because of the time and effort trying to get your message across to the entire

municipality.

It's that diversity.

There's such a diversity out there that literally you're trying to your message is the same for everyone.

But it's got to be tailored sometimes so that they understand it.

And I, like I said, my eyes are always boggled when they have to do the whole citywide.

So more power to you out there, man.

And I would tell people, I mean, it's ridiculous that the only job that you can run for that has more constituents than school board is governor or a number of Congress.

That's not crazy.

I mean, that's just crazy.

And, and you're right.

I mean, it's a citywide school board election favors.

Well, it's just called favors groups that will go out and ballot harvest for you.

Period.

And those don't generally sit on the right side of the equation.

All right.

Quick gut check lightning round public safety.

More focus about right or needs rethinking.

More focus.

Absolutely.

Okay.

All right.

Expand on that for me.

Yeah.

I mean, I think, I mean, what we're seeing.

I mean, I think with the kind of homelessness and stuff where we've got this two tier justice system.

Where certain crimes and stuff are just not being enforced.

And I think it's a learned behavior where people are kind of constantly.

If we're not enforcing laws, people are going to continue to have the same behaviors.

All right.

Taxes too high about right or could increase.

Absolutely not increase.

I think that they're too high.

I can't really promise on trying to lower them, but I will do my best.

Notice, I knew that wasn't going to be, I knew you weren't going to say, hey, let's just go increase them.

That would not play into a Eagle River's constituency.

Or we'll call it sane, sane rational Anchorageites, right?

So city spending, efficient, mixed or needs a major review.

I think it needs a major review.

Biggest fun.

I mean, go ahead.

Yeah.

I mean, I mean, across the board, what we've seen with the budget, where we've got, I mean,

unfunded positions that continually year after year are constantly refunded.

And we're still spending that money somehow.

I think we definitely need a review and have kind of some more line items here.

And making sure that there's some more guard rails on spending.

Playing my tune, man, I appreciate that answer.

Biggest priority day one.

I mean, a lot of it's going to depend on kind of the who else is elected.

Sure.

Because I mean, I think that's going to change.

I mean, kind of the direction of the city.

I'd really like if we had one of the conservative members who was chair of the assembly there.

That would, I think, have a major impact on kind of direction of the city.

So, yeah, not to kind of skip over the question there.

No, no, no.

A lot of it's going to depend.

And then to close out Donald Hanland, candidate for Anchorage Assembly from Ego River, for voters listening this morning,

who may not have filled out the ballot, what do you want them to remember about you as they go to vote?

I want them to remember that this has been a community-focused campaign.

Yeah, I mean, as active in the community as I can be here, I've tried to do that.

We've knocked over 10,000 doors, attended two dozen community council meetings.

I've been out here and I'm not stopping.

I like it, man.

I appreciate your willingness to come on the Amy Daboski show this morning.

I appreciate your willingness to serve and to lead and to run.

And I wish you the best.

And I look forward to having a conversation with you when you're sitting in one of those 12 seats on the Anchorage Assembly.

Okay, I really appreciate it.

Thank you for having me.

You got it.

Donald Hanland with the Ego River Anchorage Assembly candidate.

All right, guys, we have about 30 seconds.

We're going to take a break.

When we come back, Carl, you have been super patient.

And we're going to get to you.

And then Alex, we're going to talk to you too.

On Carl's going to, Carl and I are going to talk about government.

Alex and I are going to talk about the gas line.

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Anchorage police connecting two shootings in the Russian Jack neighborhood

that left two men hospitalized last week.

Police say they've contacted all involved parties, but new charges have been filed as the investigation goes on.

A skier's been injured after getting caught in an avalanche outside of Gurdwood.

The skier was climbing up Max's mountain with two other people Saturday

when one of them triggered an avalanche.

An investigation is ongoing into a mobile home fire near the Maldon area in Anchorage.

Multiple residents were hospitalized with varying levels of injuries.

A firefighter was treated for a non-lipthreatening injury.

It's not yet clear what caused the place.

In the 2026, I did a rod trail sled dog races officially in the books.

Mushroom Richard Betty was the 29th and final competitor of a pass under the World Arch in Nome

just before 8 Friday night.

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Looking at the Alaska Total Traffic cameras now on this Monday morning.

Steady traffic coming inbound on the Glen Highway.

A few slowdowns outside, particularly at the gates to the post.

Traffic is backing up.

Roads are a bit slippery, particularly in town.

All that water from yesterday has frozen.

So do be careful at the intersections.

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The Amy Demboski Show 3-23-2026

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