As readers will know, in addition to this blog we also regularly publish more frequent, shorter pieces on our Facebook, Linked In and Google+ pages. Links to those pieces are available in a box down the right hand column of this page, but on infrequent occasions we also have published them here when we believe they have more than the usual significance and want to ensure they have the widest possible distribution.
Yesterday’s piece summarizing our view of the two days of legislative hearings this week on the #AKLNG project is one such instance. The piece follows:
Friday’s “First Post” from Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets: We are considering nominating Don McLean’s “The Day the Music Died” (official title, “American Pie”) as the official theme song for the last two days of hearings before the Joint Senate and House Resources Committees on the#AKLNG project.
For those of you that weren’t born when the song was popular (a larger segment of the population than used to be the case), the song is McLean’s early 1970’s reflection on the day three idols of late-1950’s pop music died in an Iowa plane crash. It was, in his terms, “the day the music died.” Continue reading
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