Jeremy Hsieh

From 'Crossfire' to 'CeaseFire': C-SPAN executive launches program that promotes common ground For many years when he worked at CNN, Sam Feist was a producer for “Crossfire,” which highlighted often loud political differents.

"CeaseFire" as the name of a show is so provocative! But not in a spicy chili pepper way. It's more like the underappreciated bleu cheese with a hot wing -- that facilitates eating more hot wings. #media #politics

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I count five (!) classic brick and mortar Pizza Huts on this map of #Anchorage from 1984.

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Ptasty ptarmigan's ptwelve-gauge revenge
#alaska #hunt #Adak

Boring, procedural #tariff stuff -- but important
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So that plane is right-side up under the ice, and the people are sitting on top of the top side of the wing.

Which means somehow, it appears that the plane did a 180 (or 540 or 900, etc) before it came to rest under the ice.

But that would mean the people are sitting on the underside of the plane's wings. But that's not right, because then the fuselage would be above the ice. And also, you can see in other photos of the plane on a tarmac somewhere that the underside of the wings are white and the topside is green.

You can see the lines where the plane made its landing approach on top of the ice, and the prop end of the plane under the ice facing the approach.

At first, I thought the plane's gear got hung up above the ice, and the front end kept going, and spun around until it was upside down under the ice.

Three rescued from Tustumena Lake after small plane breaks through ice The plane was reported missing about 12 hours before it was found partially submerged under ice.

I can't stop staring at this photo! 🧵

#NenanaIceClassic #GavelClassic #VolcanoClassic #Alaska

I feel like there's some Butters In Alaska crossover potential here. What's her guess?

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Heads up, @matt.akmemo.com @gavelalaska.bsky.social #GavelClassic #VolcanoClassic #NenanaIceClassic

I will stay up a little thinking about what this means, but presumably will rest before I fully figure it out

#PetPeeve: When anyone says they "Will not rest until X" when X is a thing that will obviously take more time to resolve than they can humanly work without rest.

I appreciate the sentiment, but it always strikes me as a blatant lie. Maybe a robot could say it honestly?

NASA issues update on chance of asteroid hitting Earth The 2024 YR4 asteroid is currently the most dangerous space object near Earth.

"The odds of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting the Earth have increased from 1 percent to 2.3 percent, but experts say this was expected and are not worried about it."

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I would appreciate it if some experts would worry about this for the rest of us, please.

A screen capture of a social media app's list of notifications, topped by "SANTA CLAUS and 5 others followed you"

6-year-old Jeremy would be so stoked! 🎅

I guess grown up Jeremy is also stoked, but for different reasons.

Ugh. Woke up with a flat tire. Found this. It got ... screwed? Sounds like an easy patch job for an auto shop, though.

At the end of last ski season, I forgot to take this pin off the zipper pull of my ski instructor employee jacket when I turned it in.

I had ski instructor rehire orientation today, and my pin found its way back to me. So satisfying! #lostandfound #alaska #psia

The parent companies of 2 of Alaska’s grocers want to merge. Here’s what we know. The companies have made sweeping statements about the benefits of merging, but there isn’t anything in place to hold them to those promises.

The trial in the FTC's case seeking an injunction to stop the merger in an Oregon federal court begins Monday.

Here's a story I did earlier this month with overview of the merger, with some special attention on #Alaska.
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Union representing Portland-area Fred Meyer workers can now use threat of strike at bargaining table The union representing Portland Fred Meyer workers says it could call for a strike to push the grocery chain to follow labor laws.

Little Kroger-Albertsons merger update this week out of
@opb.bsky.social. Local 555 of the United Food and Commercial Workers -- the one and only local chapter of the union to come out in support of the merger -- withdrew its support for the merger.
www.opb.org/article/2024...

Also, if you want to express yourself with your car and raise money or awareness for your cause, why not just use a bumper sticker instead?

Montana Quilters Have Their Own License Plate. And So Does Everyone Else. America’s highways are like Walt Whitman: They contain multitudes. America’s twin obsessions—being yourself and driving yourself—have given us the Humm ...

Slate had this feature in 2012 with good national, international and historical context about specialty license plates.

They've been proliferating, but are basically unheard of outside of North America.

www.slate.com/articles/lif...

How 'the license plate bill to end license plate bills' finally passed Lawmakers have long joked and criticized the inconsequential bills. Until this year, they also were unwilling to stop spending time on them.

This year, the Legislature finally passed a bill to get out of specialty license plate business. Here's that story. #akleg
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Lots of observers and legislators have dunked on these specialty license plate bills over the years as a waste of time. But collectively, the Legislature has always repeatedly rejected attempts to delegate specialty license plate powers away.

He wanted a vanity plate that said "NOCURS" to celebrate the Boston Red Sox breaking its World Series curse, but his wife read it as "knockers."

Part of the story had to do with recurring specialty license plate legislation, including a future candidate for governor joking during a floor debate about how he almost ruined his marriage.

When Alaska's lawmakers get loopy In the end-of-session flurry of lawmaking, some strange things happen, especially at the tail end of marathon sessions.

In 2016, I put together this story about how silly and strange Alaska's lawmakers get when they're burning the midnight oil, trying to pass a bunch of legislation ahead of deadlines. #AKleg
www.ktoo.org/2016/04/22/w...

In third act of Anchorage’s accounting ‘cautionary tale,’ a CFO races to close $147M deal The city nearly missed a critical window to secure huge amounts of capital needed to pay for voter-approved infrastructure projects.

#Anchorage got wired $147 million on Thursday, money that represents the will of voters to invest in city and school infrastructure. The city came VERY close to missing its window to get that cash on good terms.
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Anchorage Mayor Bronson's final resignee warns about 'time bombs' in city’s bookkeeping The outgoing budget director says significant accounting failures could hurt the city’s credit and saddle taxpayers with extra expenses.

She delivered a conservative accountant’s version of a mic drop.