Alaskan. Dad. DHS Lynx. Music fan. Audiobook devourer. Former Anchorage City Manager. Absorber of chaos; projector of calm.
Anchorage, AK
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Does anyone know how to make sense of Bronson telling AKPM that the "one thing [he's] most proud of" is his "put[ting] a very successful engineering firm" in charge of the Port of Alaska Modernization Project? Jacobs/CH2M has been the PAMP Project Manager SINCE FEBRAURY 2014.
Among other things, it called for public swimming facilities to be established at Goose Lake, and for Russian Jack to be preserved for recreation. 6/
One of my favorite days at City Hall was discovering some old reports in the Parks and Recreation Department's library that Vic Fischer had co-authorized in the 1950s.
One, "Preliminary Plan -- Recreation for Anchorage," was issued in Dec. 1954. 1/
... and for the establishment of a Campbell Creek Park, which the report predicted would "assume as important a role as Chester Creek" as population increased. 4/
The plan called for the creation of a "Chester Creek Park," to stretch from "Knik Arm to Russian Jack Springs" (which I don't think actually happened until 1971).... 3/
The state's "Cost of Living in Alaska" (and inflation) report is really interesting. So much of the overall results are driven by housing. live.laborstats.alaska.gov/t…
The Cook Inlet Gas Supply report is pretty sobering. 1/3 enstarnaturalgas.com/cook-in…
As I read it, the punchlines are: (a) even with lots of renewables, absent new supply from somewhere other than Cook Inlet, we need -- and run out of -- gas in 2027. 2/3
And (b) that the plausible unsubsidized, long-term options all increase the costs of gas by a pretty fair amount (we end up with $12-14/Mcf ,while I believe CEA is currently paying <$8 Mcf and Enstar is paying $8.65). getfilings.com/sec-filings/2…; enstarnaturalgas.com/wp-cont…
It remains pretty awesome that we live in a place where you can start a hike at 7:30pm and not worry about finishing in the dark.
Since I apparently like to take photos of archives, @kemptont here's the vault under the Loussac rotunda, with a bound collection of old newspapers dating back to 1936, alive & well back in 2020 (when I was looking up COVID analogs--and still being distracted by other MOA gems).
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