Sunday Reads

 Obituary:  Frequent presidential candidate and former Alaska senator Mike Gravel, 91, has died.

AP:

Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. Gravel had been living in Seaside, California, and was in failing health, said Theodore W. Johnson, a former aide.

Gravel’s two terms came during tumultuous years for Alaska when construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was authorized and when Congress was deciding how to settle Alaska Native land claims and whether to classify enormous amounts of federal land as parks, preserves and monuments.

He had the unenviable position of being an Alaska Democrat when some residents were burning President Jimmy Carter in effigy for his measures to place large sections of public lands in the state under protection from development.

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Laurel Hubbard is a man:

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Regarding Biden and student loan forgiveness:  I will believe it when I see it.

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Yet another woman athlete has lost to a brazen cheater.

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This encounter, which has gone viral all over the place, is epic.

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It got to 113 degrees where I live.  Of course I stayed indoors almost all day after 10 a.m.

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