Sean Parnell

Alaska National Guard gets new commander

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gov. Sean Parnell has named the new commander of the Alaska National Guard. Brig.

Aid offer to stem tide of PNG ill

Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sean Parnell; 10/11/09 The Papua New Guinea government is examining a package of health measures that Australia helped to develop, in a desperate bid to address the serious risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV crossing the Torres Strait. As thousands of PNG nationals cross each year to access Queensland Health services, breaching the free movement provisions [...]

Kodiak storm damage declared emergency

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

KODIAK -- Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has declared a state disaster for storm damage last month on Kodiak Island.

Kodiak Island to get state relief for storm damage

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has declared a state disaster for storm damage last month on Kodiak Island.

Anger grows over adoption scam

Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Rory Callinan & Sean Parnell; 4/11/09 An Australian parent who unwittingly adopted stolen children from India has accused the federal government of failing to launch a proper investigation into the case and other related child-trafficking issues. The parent’s trauma and frustration is detailed in internal government documents which also reveal a group of children from another [...]

Rural action panel on third tour

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Gov. Sean Parnell's Rural Action Subcabinet flew to Tanana on Monday as part of its third tour. Stops also are scheduled for Ruby and Galena. Attorney General Dan Sullivan is the chair of the subcabinet. Also traveling are Emil Notti, commerce commissioner; Mike Black, his deputy; Larry Hartig, commissioner of environmental conservation; Click Bishop, labor commissioner; and John Moller, the governor's...

Democrats offer 3 to fill Foster's seat

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

The Alaska Democratic Party on Thursday sent three names to Gov. Sean Parnell as suggestions for him to choose from in picking the late Richard Foster's replacement in the state House.

Polar Bears Vs. Development In Alaska

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell vowed last week to keep fighting the 2008 listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, even as federal managers proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land and ice as critical habitat for the bears. More on Animals

Governor Sean Parnell appoints first ever Director of Rural Education.

The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

Juneau School Board member Phyllis Carlson will be the state's first director of rural education, Gov. Sean Parnell announced Thursday. Carlson works for the Tlingit-Haida Central Council and is in Anchorage for the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, where Parnell announced her appointment. In a press release announcing her appointment to the new job, Carlson said it was both a privilege and...

Laissez le Schisme Commencer

The Happy Circumstance (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

More splits and splats in the GOP. If you're the GOP candidate for Governor in one party and endorse the candidate of a different party for governor in another state, what does that say about either your commitment or the party's strength for the future? Tiahrt says, "The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people," said Tiahrt...

Alaska Vows To Fight Polar Bear Protection With Lawsuits, Disses Climate Change

Green Options (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Now that the polar bear is about to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, the state of Alaska is taking legal action to challenge the decision. Following the announcement that threatened polar bears are set to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Attorney General Dan Sullivan responded by taking legal action against...

Senate seat Coghill's

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

The nine state Senate Republicans on Thursday unanimously confirmed John Coghill to take North Pole Republican Sen. Gene Therriault's seat. Gov. Sean Parnell earlier appointed Coghill, a Republican state representative from North Pole, to take the Senate seat that opened when Therriault resigned for a job advising Parnell on energy issues.

Letters: Right to criticize is fundamental to democracy

USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

Right to criticize is fundamental to democracy Sean Parnell, President, Center for Competitive Politics - Alexandria, Va. The seeming indifference by the Obama administration toward free speech is more troubling than commentary writer Jonathan Turley's excellent opinion piece describes ("Just...

Binky the bear is rolling over in his grave as Alaskan politicians favor oil development over protecting Polar Bears.

The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

The state of Alaska is bolstering efforts to overturn the listing of the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Wednesday he has filed a supplement to the state's earlier lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C. In it, the state claims the U.S. Department of Interior did not respond to the state's concerns in a timely manner before polar...

Cruise ship pollution rules have some Alaskans fretting

adn.com: Business (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

WASHINGTON -- Some Alaska ports of call along with Gov. Sean Parnell have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rethink -- or at least slow down -- its plans to impose stricter air-quality requirements for cruise ships and other large oceangoing vessels.

• Not all Alaska ports support limits on cruise ship emissions - Miami Herald

New Alaskan Governor Sean Parnell's Inauguration

ilegend019 | 07/27/2009

New Alaskan Governor, Sean Parnell speaks about the honor of becoming the new governor of Alaska