niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Would you mind explaining your complaint further? It's rather generic and lobster pot mentality.
SOA jobs aren't the equivalent of working on Mcd's you know. You can joke about it, but you know they aren't. So I'll offer an observation. There are two "raises" people talk about. 1)The multi-year contracts where employees get a raise intended to tread water with inflation. There have may -0- years and the Leg tried to defund the final contact year last session. Not exactly fair since that's the year the bulk of the 3.5% is assigned to. 2)The actual merit step you may be referring to are experience increases. The longer you work, the more you make. Generally SOA employees make significantly less for many years than private industry, but weigh several factors of employment. So, think of it as a wage scale for time and experience. You wouldn't work for your employer for the same wage as a HS student would you, but you'd probably expect raises the longer you worked.
Output: Yes
What a jerk.  Sounds like he should drink less of his product.
Output: Yes
And if they take action BEFORE a criminal conviction they set themselves up for a lawsuit brought on by those that they have taken adverse action against while lacking "the training the skill the resources to do it in-house" to do a proper investigation. Such an approach is and will be a disaster for universities and colleges.
Output: No
The explanation given by LTD for viewing photos on the phone does not hold water.  It is highly unlikely that the LTD personnel will recognize a random citizen of the metropolitan area.  Had they looked at the phone book entries, their justification for viewing the phone's data might at least be reasonable.  Viewing the photo section was simply an invasion of privacy.  There was no justifiable reason to access the photos.  I suspect that many will object and discharge any privacy issues with the justification that a perv was found.  Next time the LTD employee may view and use bank documents and passwords or pins or access private unpublished phone numbers.  But so what, we got a perv.
Output: No
Beyond BS, be it SB 21 or ACES, no tax credit law for Alaska's oil should be structured to result in NO royalty revenue. Both SB21 and ACES were pushed by the cabal of Republican legislators to create an unbalanced contract.  Simply, Alaska's royalty should be no less than the profit gained by the oil producer.  Anything less is a give-away.  Now it is not only a give-away, but an insane result of paying the oil companies to "take without compensation" oil and gas that is first owned by Alaska.  As it stands, it is a criminal theft of Alaska's resource property.  The Alaska legislature must set right the situation (an undesirable situation): otherwise, "by the time a problem becomes patently obvious, it may be almost too late to remedy it."  If not remedied in this session then the immediate solution is to REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER.
Output: Yes
OMG yes!  Let's put back the old A&W ..........  gosh our communities problems back then were SO simple......
Output: No
Did any of the refugees have to go through the US citizenship process the way naysayers expect the Mexicans to, or were they granted automatic citizenship without the required process?  What's good for the goose must be good for the gander.
Output: Yes
Looking forward to this.
Output: No
Trump is going to change all that and give vets and their families everything they deserve . These hero's have been short changed far too long .
Output: No
"Additionally, the report found that forests in Southeast Alaska will capture more carbon going forward, though it is only a small region of the state."

Why? How? 
"going forward?" Please, let's kill this nonsensical and completely redundant idiom now.
Output: Yes
One of the plaintiffs in this lawsuit is Jim Crawford, former head of the Republican party when the CBC held sway.  If memory serves me, Mr Crawford got trounced in a primary race by a challenger he out spent 10-1.   Maybe, if he had out spent his challenger 20-1, he would have gone to Juneau and continued the fine traditions of the CBC.  Over 500 years ago, Machiavelli wrote, "All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."  The oil coalition in Juneau has had close to absolute power with predictable results.    In Juneau, money corrupts.  Oil money corrupts absolutely.  There is no lack of ethically challenged people from both parties.  Make no mistake, this lawsuit is about controlling the political process with a big dash of sour grapes from Mr. Crawford.
Output: No
Is this you?

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/09/brian_owendoff_broker_who_made.html
Output: No
All of your so-called repub's good job is a result of sequestration.
Output: No
I think I may have solved the mystery. I found some data saying that the population of Zip Code 99734 (Deadhorse) was 2174 as of July 2015. However, there are zero (0) households in Prudhoe Bay.

What are the chances that non-residents are claiming residency and living elsewhere when they aren't working their shift on the Slope? 

That would certainly skew the employment data.
Output: No
I find it very interesting that a construction project controls the state government. Who the H wrote this RFP for retrofitting the capital building? They should have included a paragraph re the convening of the legislature takes precedence over this project and the bidder should consider the session to be 120 days. Just another example of the incompetence of the State Of Alaska
Output: Yes
Heard this one before, Alaskans? "After Wasserman Schultz spoke, Luis Miranda, DNC communications director, said she wasn’t doing interviews and had to hurry to catch a plane leaving Alaska".
Output: No
This what happens when you are more interested in who is going to the bathroom than fixing the economy.
Output: Yes
Not really late.  I am talking across the board reduction in the operating budget.  Based on allocation, some agencies will take more, some less.  Some departments will be eliminated.  It is going to happen, might as well get out in front of it and get it done.  I am sure some, although very limited, agencies have taken substantial cuts, but more have to be made.  I lived in the mid-80's crash and know what it was like.  I can tell you history is about to repeat itself.  Brings to mind the old bumper sticker... Lord gives us another Prudhoe Bay and I promise not to pass it away.  Not gonna happen this time around.
Output: No
Read her mail out,first thing is her support for the Countermand Amendment, so states could veto federal laws. Not balancing the AK budget, not dealing with pot legalization, and not working to come up with revenues to keep our state running. If she is so concerned about the Constitution of the US, what about an amendment to overturn "Citizens United".  I'm absolutely sick of elected officials neglecting their duties to go on Tea Party crusades.
Output: Yes
Clinton supporters should be prepared to not complain about corporatism, corruption, or cronyism because after voting for her they will have zero credibility on these issues.
Output: Yes
Like I said, even if she is a tramp, *that* has nothing to do with the crimes.    But when trying to converse with someone who reverts to schoolyard name calling, it's a futile conversation.
Output: Yes
Right, if it weren't for all those pesky 'colored' and 'immigrant' voters, we could elect scum like Newt Gingrich, Thad Cochran, Rick Snyder, Strom Thurmond and David Duke EVERYWHERE--even in California!

(PSST--you left out Oakland, Vallejo and Sacramento).
Output: Yes
B. Carfree 
Do you think housed people are so much different in there use of drugs? Housed people make messes too. They inconviently throw trash when their walking. Housed peoples trash can be see too, at a dump, which will have to be cleaned up too!
Output: No
What?  Prince is not related to Michael Jackson.  Prince was born two months before Jackson.
Output: No
hey, y'all still there?  i'm not liking the limited character feature.  I know some posts get overly long  - surely some of mine do - but let people just pass on it if they choose.  to want to add  truly 3 or 4  more words, or even letters, to a post and be stopped, stinks.   and still not liking the peer review stuff - I think it is most likely a click click reaction from most users by now.
Output: No
They also placed themselves above all other leggies in 'Special Elite Council'; they are still 'making decisions' for our money today, right now, in the same pattern as last year, in OT while remideling more buildings. That scam works so good.
Output: Yes
That's actually an awesome idea. We'll call it the idiot tax.
Output: Yes
Well here's to all the idiots that voted for the idiots in the AK legislature.  You fell for a line of BS 21 that's hurting us all.
Output: Yes
I-Pi, I assume that Neighbor99 is someone connected to the church or Jules Bailey and that they signed up just to convince me that the LGBT community can feel safe with a man who attends and supports a church that is anti-gay and misogynistic. 

We have accused each other of intellectual dishonesty- but that doesn't translate to dishonest acts.  I am sure you wouldn't steal my paper, and I would never clip your flowers.

BTW- I believe that some issues have gray areas- but reject the kind of "moral relativism" that allows for people to say that some patriarchy, some denial of civil rights to gays- is okay when sprinkled with pretty words.  It ain't.
Output: No
I agree that not any 'one person' can fix the mess. It will take collaboration, which has been pretty thin for the last 35 years. I don't think your dreams are fantasy. History shows that any town, city, country that is overtaken by greed and gluttony, sooner or later falls by bloody revolt. We've already seen the elements of violence. I hope that before I die, I can finally live in a country who's status quo, throughout my entire life, has been to have a foreign policy of regime change and intervention where thousands of our young die and millions are injured for life, and where we intervene...millions die. And that's just the tip of my hope.
Output: No
All people had to do was read the pamplet that was mailed out explaining SB21 before it was voted on to see it was terrible. Get rid of SB21 now! Dont take it personal big oil, its just bad business. Its  very ignorant to put it bluntly.
Output: Yes
So you're suggesting less police, fire, medical, elder fraud, longer lines at the DMV, less fish and game? Think about what you're asking for; that's ridiculous!
Output: Yes
Government can't make a true economy.  If I take $10 from my right pocket and put it in my left pocket, I still have $10.  That's all they are doing.  Yes, they infuse lots of money into the economy.  That money came from the economy.  They didn't make it.  There is no new money.  They produced nothing.  Right now they have some money they removed from the economy years ago.  When that's gone, they can only take a dollar and spend a dollar.  The economy would have the exact same.  When they take 3 billion from the PFD, that's 3 billion less for Alaskians to spend in the economy, but 3 billion more for government to spend.  So the question is who do you want spending the money?  Some corrupt politician in Juneau or thousands of Alaskans?
Output: Yes
Curious to where the money is supposed to come from for this purchase. More senior cut?  As deep in red as this state is in, I did not realize we had 32mil just laying around for them to do whatever "they" choose.  Not only is it bad optics, but we have representatives who are completely out of touch with their constituency.  I hope to see new names on the upcoming ballot.  No incumbent will get my vote.
Output: No
To come clean, Trump has to reveal his tax returns to prevent any conflict of interest.
Output: No
MC,

My guess is that sometime in the not so distant future some comedic genius is going to turn these presidential primaries and the eventual election into THE great all time comedic farce.  In the distant future (if humanity is still around), that comedy will be considered a masterpiece that should be read and/or seen by all.  University courses will be taught; books, papers, critiques, and graduate thesis's will be written over and over about it in all disciplines.

This is an amazing time if one has the ability to disengage enough to observe the hypocrisy and stupidity.  It seems to have reached hysteria already.  Can it get any worse or for that comedic genius any better?  My guess is yes.  Every day I wake-up to listen to this future comedy play-out on NPR, read about it on-line, and sit stunned staring at what I read in the RG.  I wonder if the word progress and any of its forms should be omitted from every human language?  It may be that "human progress" will be the joke.
Output: Yes
YOURE LYING!
Output: Yes
"One young woman with so much promise". Agreed.
Output: No
You're confusing Mayor Berkowitz with your Republican majority who is in the process of shoving a crap load of state budget items down to statewide municipalities.  You better have a wheelbarrow ready because the tax crap is going to be deep and it won't have anything to do with Mayor Berkowitz's management.
Output: Yes
Only because he knows that first and foremost,

 'It's about America... Stupid'.

Everything else is completely secondary.
Output: Yes
The current mess we're in is a result of the very great and growing disparities of wealth and income.  Capitalism has no inherent way to lessen these.  Simulations show that, unless there is some intervention, disparities of wealth and income will continue to grow.

The free people of this nation can use their government to help determine a better future.  Bob's recommendations are reasonable and sound.
Output: No
What a blessing for both families. There is nothing more noble than love for our fellow man and both families experienced a moment of love. This story brightened my day. Thanks and God Bless
Output: No
He shot five times to make sure it was dead. It is not like a movie, where someone shoots once, the shootee falls, and the screen darkens. If it ran at him, he may have had to shoot several times  to make sure it stopped coming. Sometimes adrenaline can make an animal keep going after it has been shot. Better and more humane to make sure, even if it takes several shots. And in the article, it says he has never used it for self-defense in the 25 years he's been carrying a firearm. So this is not a crazy person shooting all and sundry. Context is important. This is Alaska, people. If there is a danger to a kid, there are enough homesteaders around to fix it if the responsible party won't.
Output: No
Something tells me there is some financial "lobbying" going on. Its not going to go our way until we end the corruption folks.
Output: No
I remember Meyer being asked about the perceived conflict of interest with him voting on SB21 while being employed by Conoco Phillips. He said that there was no conflict of interest. That he wasn't management and wouldn't gain anything based on his vote. 

He also stated that he was treated like any other employee at Conoco Phillips. 

On the first point, his employer does influence his vote. If he doesn't think so, he should try promoting the repeal of SB21 and see how his employer reacts. I bet budget cuts would unfortunately result in his position being cut.

And the statement that he's just like any other employee at Conoco Phillips, I beg to differ. What other line employee at Conoco takes three or more months off a year? How necessary is your job if your employer can afford to have you gone for three or more months  months a year. Do any of his coworkers get to do this? I really doubt it.

So, surprise, surprise. He is hugely influenced by his employer regardless of what he says.
Output: No
Oh, please. Not one of these mollycoddlers will lift a finger to move a file. They hire plebes to do that for them. Minimum wage to move a few offices? Man, I am so sick of these corrupt, oily, and entitled FOOLS!
Output: Yes
I wish the young man all the best.  he's on a tough road but seems to have a handle on it...  RG: "Ellis graduates Friday as a member of Willamette’s Class of 2016. He says it’s a group that — aside from “a few guys who are jerks to everyone” — has accepted him since he came out at school as a sophomore..."
Output: Yes
From the information up top you can see what the military did to my ancestors once they were disarmed, thanks but no thanks.
Output: No
as part of the 85% of Native American's who cherish Indian mascots, you're full of deluded (&*$. These mascots are no different than the mascots Native American tribes have at our high schools, and no different than the ones we have made long before whitey showed up.
Output: Yes
So you don't accept opposing views? Hmmm, go figure!
Output: No
Another terrorist attack on Obama's watch.
Output: Yes
The only people attacking are the religious right, this issue has been to the supreme court and yet these superstitious legislators cant stop attacking civil liberties.
Output: No
I strongly, strongly doubt dogs just come up to you "snarling and growling" all the time. Dogs just don't generally behave this way. Anyone who spends a significant amount of time out and about around here knows that. You might have dogs approach you when you'd prefer they not, or approach you in a manner that leaves you wondering if they are friendly, but the idea that you're constantly barraged by "snarling and growling" dogs is just an exaggerated fantasy and you know it.
Output: No
Very Good APD ~ !
Output: Yes
So true ItsMe!
Output: No
Clark has my vote. I've not been impressed with the direction that the Kitty Cabal has taken recently, eschewing sound management in favor of a progressive  moonbat agenda that simultaneously fails to confront the city manager and his developer pals. Mike Clark will be a welcome change from the status quo. The city has lost my trust and will need strong, experienced leadership to win it back if they expect me to ever vote for another tax levy - period.
Output: No
Quite an illuminating comment, to say the least.

White dude??  What if a non-white, and made my comment?  Would that make it more acceptable?  What if I was Hispanic, would the city NOT rezone my property?

Is "Bree" too cute for you to be objective about?  You sound like you may sit there in the meetings thinking more about how to shelter her, then the work at hand, "middle-aged white dude."
Output: Yes
We cannot have any of those evil industrialists or homebuilders creating jobs or homes for people now can we ?
Output: Yes
This article should be on the wedding announcements page. Who cares what she will be serving at her wedding?
Output: Yes
Are you not afraid of a bad guy with a gun because you know the idiot is not likely trained in how to use it ? That would make  sense.  The Idiot  is not going to hit you from any distance greater then point blank.
As opposed to a trained gun owner that could take out a dog trying to attack his child.
BTW I'd much rather read a story about a dead dog then a 3 year old kid having it's face tore up by the some dog.
Output: Yes
No actually fireworks are explosives.
Output: No
Reckless spending by the Dems on Unions and Natives is why Alaska is in terrible financial shape.  

Cut spending, ignore Walker's income tax or suffer the consequences.
Output: Yes
Huffman, excellent post!
Output: No
Sir, I am a Korean veteran and a libertarian.  And I dislike wimps who
post under false names.  If you read my short piece more carefully, we
agree.  But I don't want folks like you on my side, ever.
Output: Yes
Sᴛᴀʀᴛ ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴɢ ғʀᴏᴍ ʜᴏᴍᴇ! Gʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴊᴏʙ ғᴏʀ sᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛs, sᴛᴀʏ-ᴀᴛ-ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴍᴏᴍs ᴏʀ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅɪɴɢ ᴀɴ ᴇxᴛʀᴀ ɪɴᴄᴏᴍᴇ... Yᴏᴜ ᴏɴʟʏ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ʀᴇʟɪᴀʙʟᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ... Mᴀᴋᴇ $90 ʜᴏᴜʀʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ $12000 ᴀ ᴍᴏɴᴛʜ ʙʏ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ʟɪɴᴋ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴛᴛᴏᴍ ᴀɴᴅ sɪɢɴɪɴɢ ᴜᴘ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪs ᴡᴇᴇᴋ... 

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Output: No
People like tbe author tend to flock to the next "hip" place, trasform it with their own presence yet blame the change on others, and move on. Sounds like a broken relationship -- "Everybody's so different, I haven't changed." Well, it is true that most of us seek out a sense of place...
Output: No
Wes Keller rushed this hearing  to close the forum of debate just like he refused to allow public testimony during his sub-committee meeting on Daylight Saving Time.  After he abuses his authority to ruthlessly quash  an opposing or different viewpoint he goes into his "gentle apologist" routine.  It is all an act.  The fact is Representative Wes Keller simply will not tolerate nor entertain an opinion or suggestion that challenges his pre-conceived notion about any situation or topic.  If the people in his District want him to represent them that is their choice; however, he demonstrates the flaw in the current legislative process that too often places demagogues in positions that allows them to effectively disenfranchise Alaskans by abuse of authority.
Output: No
ya know ...I think that is a pretty accurate, concise assessment.  it is why the campaign agenda/promises are never fully carried out if at all.
Output: No
Many believe that except where indicated that we should go more by the literal words of the Bible.  
You are right however to say that we can only act based on our interpretations of the words.
Output: No
I lived for many years in Tok and Barrow, where one might think it would have been difficult to be a vegetarian.  No problem at all.
Output: No
https://www.muni.org/Departments/Fire/Wildfire/Documents/ANCHORAGE_WILDFIRE_May_2004_Program_Report.pdf. 

Here is a long winded study the city published. If you read this closely, you will see many notations in regards to the "Fuel" problem on the HillSide. It will also show how we are not truly prepared to address the situation.  Yes, there has been some correction, but nothing compared to what needs to be done. It's not, if it happens, it's when will it happen? Until we take major steps to reduce the fuel up there, it's a future killing field. I no longer have the numbers at my finger tips, but there was another study which identified just how much total fuel was up there. It compared it to "Powder Kegs".
Output: Yes
I've read state OCS yearly statistical reports, Kirk, and those statistics just don't support your so-called legal opinion that children are being abused.  Neglect perhaps, but abuse no.  I'd like to know if in any of your child welfare cases how many of your child clients were removed from their homes solely based on the fact of overcrowding minus abuse or neglect.  How many of your child clients did you bother to reunify with their families or did you even care about reunification?  Your legal job is to reunify not divide families.  And yes I agree, there's a lot of money to be made off the heads of children, especially in the legal profession like yours.
Output: No
Maybe you'll feel better after reading the Haycox commentary in today's ADN. 
I seem to recall Cruz suggesting that his company was headed south if SB21 didn't pass; it did pass and he went south nonetheless. 
Now, with oil sands in Canada and fracking in the US in decline he's back in Alaska to advocate for using our dividend to fund tax credits.
Is Cruz in it for Alaskans or for himself is the real question you and Rick should be asking.
Output: No
So... as I read this story, am I supposed to feel sympathy for a guy who was making $3k per week/$156k per year just because he was laid off and now has to dip into his retirement while receiving unemployment?  Anyone making that kind of salary for as long as he has should easily have at least a couple million in the bank.  You'l have to excuse me now... I must grab a tissue to wipe away my tears.
Output: No
Pete Kelly is a low life. He gives politicians a bad name.
Output: Yes
I find it very ironic and disheartening that on one hand the legislature wants to cut spending and not raise and revenue, while at the same time want to either lease or buy a Taj Mahal in Anchorage, all while going into a special session that increases their personal income and likely do little else.
Output: No
You would think the author of this post, or an editor at Willamette Week, would have been able to do a simple Google search and realized: 

1. There is already an article titled "Your Uber Driver Hates You," written in Sept. 2014: https://idrivesf.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/your-uber-driver-hates-you/

2. A Buzzfeed listicle titled "Ten Reasons Why Your Uber Driver Hates You" followed shortly after: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellkontraire/ten-reasons-why-your-uber-driver-hates-you-xk61

3. To update the myriad reasons why your Uber driver hates you with one extra reason is just a lazy way to make your point. 

4. Also, lists are dumb.
Output: Yes
That's what makes Wasilla so special.
Output: No
It took Bin Ladin ten years to plan his attack in NY and DC.  The CIA and FBI received plenty of tradecraft warning that Bin Ladin was going to reign terrorism on American soil and he did.  Killing Bin Ladin obviously wasn't going to end Islamic extremism.  Americans are foolish for blaming each other out of bigotry, racism, and good old fashion fear-mongering.  A nation divided will indeed fuel the flames of terrorism.  I don't believe for a moment that Mateen carried out his assault in Orlando because of Allah.  He carried out his assault due to extreme mental illness and self-hatred.  The Mateen's of this world will gun down or set off explosives and take as many innocent people with them.  That's the reality.  We're watching it unfold and appear helpless to stop it.
Output: Yes
Feel free to give as much of your money as you want to support the university I'm sure they will appreciate it.  However, don't give mine as I have other plans.
Output: No
if sanders is president is he going to make lane county jail turn the freacken lites off at nite......rite now the lites in the jail cells stay on 24/7........is sleeping with the lites on good for you....??????
Output: Yes
Bill Boyd says that people are confused about rail.  He also says that population along the route is already "above $600,000."  Who's confused?  Rail assumes that 15,000 people will walk to it.  That's a joke because there is very little housing along the rail line.  Mufi said that rail will be impossible to stop once it gets far enough along.  In my opinion, the Final Environmental Impact Statement, which included the 15,000 projection, was the first step.  Too much of it was fabricated.  It was designed just to get the project started.
Output: No
Bingo!!
Output: No
Why are concerned with things such as this? You sound very much like you would like to intimidate someone - what are your motives for knowing my personal information? Where is your concern for the children and our society at large?
Output: No
You are so wrong.  I would go to work with phone messages "your ER doc won't give me my pain meds".  I would return the call--"it is fine, Dr. XXOO gave me 290 Oxycodone for the month with six refills".  Thank the Lord for Pharmacists that question these amounts, frequency, and "doctor shopping".  They are the gatekeepers for the Dr. Ahmens of Alaska!
Output: No
I had similar thoughts back when the Republicans first started splitting hairs and playing word games with "endorse" and "support". Do they really not understand that they are one and the same? Pretty crazy for national politicians. Sounds a lot like the local political rhetoric from our very own legislative majority. (Meyers' "deer in the headlights" look and subsequent comments about the $100.00 lobbyist dinner, as an example)
Output: No
Priorities please:
More police, less crime, put these repeat offenders away!
Less homeless/inebriates.
Sales tax to reduce property taxes, everyone must pay some including valley folks and tourists who use Anchorage resources and do not pay for them ( bed tax notwithstanding).
Output: No
Until the oil industry lays off their disingenuous (read: dishonest) proxies and lobbyists I have hard time believing they're really hurting.
Output: Yes
Feck off with your pretentious review of Gramma's Corner in Milwaukie as some quaint piece of "Americana". I'm a year late to this review, but geezus, local dinguses like you live in a vacuum. The food is good, cheap, and their gravy is something to behold.
Output: Yes
According to Wikipedia, Ted Cruz is a Southern Baptist, not a Conservative Baptist.
Output: No
The problem with too many lawyers is, they get paid as winners or losers. Why do you think the whole Nations in the toilet.
http://www.sheilajeffreys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/toilet-article.pdfpublished-version.pdf
Output: No
silverhorn..I am already there - have been "there " for several years as I've seen the accepted culture in the states becoming uglier, more violent and just plain mean.  when you're driving on a road and you see a driver of a car just ignoring the fact that if another car, merging from on ramp,  doesn't get into a traffic lane in the next 50 ft, it will do a header onto the barriers. ..and that first car could move a lane over, doesn't because ...meh..not me.  not my problem.  sucks for them...*****I am looking to relocate out of the states.  many reasons - lots tied to our current collective mind set which can be summed  up in 3 words.  sucks for you.   I don't think it does and don't want to live amongst people that do.  i'd love to go back and live in the commune I did, but even that has changed....
Output: Yes
My wife home schools our three and we accomplish more in 3 hours than government accomplishes in 7 (our kids are 2 grades ahead), schools need to toss all the garbage, go back to teaching facts and let the kids use their time in other productive ways.
Output: Yes
Sucks to be someone in a wheelchair or using a walker trying to use one of those sidewalks between 9pm and 7am
Output: Yes
The military system, unlike the academic side of the U of O, more closely approaches a meritocracy.  There are conditions, tasks and standards which must be met to succeed.  The sports side also has that sort of system.  One is required to meet or exceed standards or you lose your position, whether as a player or as a coach.  The academic standards are subject to less rigor and certainty, based on my experience as a student.  They more closely match with the rest of societies' concept of 'sucking up'.  To get a good 'grade' one is required to parrot the information nearest and dearest to the heart of the instructors involved.  I am given to understand that there is also a thing known as 'grade inflation' which is a corollary of the Lake Woebegone Principle that 'everyone is above average'.  Those who successfully parrot the appropriate information are all then found to be in the highest percentile.  These tendencies are most prevalent in the squishy 'sciences', of course.
Output: Yes
I couldn't be more pleased. Comments on many sites too often get overtaken by trolls. It's the first I've heard of Civil, but I like its intent and encourage other publications in town to consider comments as a platform for engagement rather than a troll-driven click driver intended to boost online ad rates.
Output: Yes
Watch for the pathetic Obama bow to foreign leaders and the ceremonial throwing America under the bus.
Output: Yes
All true.  But the Alaska Legislature won't let facts get in the way of Full Metal Stupid.
Output: Yes
Thanks Jim Gottstein; you are a true public servant speaking for many Alaskans, challenging “self servant” legislators. Next up— something that self-serving crowd does best— wasting Alaska’s treasury on useless court appeals.
Output: Yes
Perhaps our concerns about federal overreach need to be REfocused on in-state bureaucrats.
Output: No
Portland does not have an unelected "City Manager" with more power than the elected officials.

Time to send Ruiz back to Fresno and abolish the position of Manager.
Output: No
Right on, AKBen!
Output: No
We would like to see more of this!
Output: No
For others wondering here, NO!!! this is NOTHING CLOSE TO NEWS! This is a talentless person who has done nothing to admire or make news. Yet this is a person chosen, along with the Kardashians or Jenners (who also have no skills, talent, or anything to look up to as a role model), to have endless articles about nothing published about them. This is the bread and butter of People and E! and others I don't want to remember.

If anything, if you are going to drag this into something to call a news story, you need to add an accurate piece about history: 'Bristol, daughter of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska for almost a year and half who was very surprisingly chosen as a vice presidential candidate by McCain, though had virtually no political experience. Sarah Palin went on to be widely mocked in the media for her lack of knowledge on any relevant political issues and Obama defeated the McCain-Palin ticket.'
or take it to more recent context and describe how involved/knowledgeable sheis
Output: Yes
Oh lord, do you purposefully disregard the aerial footage that was released as being "edited" or altered in such a way to alter the public perception on "what actually happened?" Are you seriously THAT paranoid?
Output: Yes
Clowns
Output: Yes
Just stamp veto on this bill Gov Walker.
Output: No
Xavier: It's interesting that some folks (including, it seems, you) are blaming Mr. Clark's loss on his running a lackluster campaign.  From all I saw and read, he campaigned quite hard.  I saw about 10 to 1 more Clark signs and only Clark billboards.  I think he also worked to present himself as a rightg-of-center candidate.  There's also the possibility that Ms. Vinis, campaigning as a progressive who would follow the same general philosophy as Mayor Piercy, was simply more to the liking of the voters.
Output: Yes
For any Vision Zero resolution to be successful, all users of our transportation corridors need to get involved in safety.  Its foolish and meaningless if safety only "relies" on car drivers.   BEST needs to rewrite their self-serving proclamation, otherwise their wasting their and the city's time.
Output: Yes
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2016R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HJM201

http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2016/HJM201/
Output: No
Jerry Olive - so your solution is ...?

What I read from your letter is that you don't want to see any budget cuts, but you'd be happy if those of us who work for a living are saddled with a 30% instate tax rate to support all of your pet projects.

Even with the cuts, a 1.5% tax rate will not be enough to balance the budget. Without the cuts, going forward, we would need a 30% tax rate.

Thank you for your neighborliness. I feel so loved by you! Since we're quoting Jesus, He summarized the 10 commandments by saying we should love God with all of our hearts and love our neighbors as ourselves. (Matthew 12:36-40) Would you like to pay 30% state income tax on top of a federal tax rate that already ties up 1/4 of my income?

But, of course, you don't pay taxes, right? So your idea is that your neighbor ought to love you better than they love themselves. Forget paying our bills or sending our kids to college. We have to support your pet projects instead.
Output: Yes
The oil corporations do not need the $630 million oil-tax credit program, because the Chief Executive Officer of Tesoro, Gregory Goff, received a salary of $23 million in 2015 and the Chief Executive Officer of BP, Bob Dudley, gave himself a pay package of $20 million.
Output: No
BS - not "mostly" outsiders on the slope
Output: No
If Bernie gets elected will all of Alaska become a park?
Output: Yes
You have no idea what Trump will do, because, frankly, Trump doesn't know what he will do, ever.  He can't stick to a single idea for more than 48 hours. They guy is a flake to the extreme and is intellectually bankrupt.
Output: Yes
Perhaps. All I know is that when I talk to Sanders supporters, they don't usually mention the "free stuff" and when they do, it's as a side remark, not their main point.

The media, however, went to town on the "free stuff" lines, but what the media or pundits say doesn't count.
Output: No
Andi, Markie as you refer to him obviously rolled into politics off of a political silver spoon. And Andi I am seriously saddened that after they lost Nick in the ice fields mom hooked up with a guy gyping rich women. But Mark's really bad politics was gyping every woman in Anchorage and then Alaska. He grew government locally more than any Mayor to now. Because his back story may not be pretty (I don't wish that on any child) that doesn't mean we should have to live with leadership and politics that is not pretty.
Output: No
This impasse is starting to look a lot like Illinois, with the same issues, but with a few different special interest players. Ikes!
Output: No
"Lost a Florida congressional seat in 2010." For his sake, hope he doesn't have any ties to Everbank.
Output: No
I was intrigued by Trump's repetitive thanks to retired Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight for his victory in Indiana.  Then I see Coach Leach of WSU endorsed him today in Washington State.  

I view those endorsements with the same enthusiasm as I do the George Clooney or Leonard DiCaprio endorsements of Hillary; totally irrelevant.  

But somehow, in our wondrous political system, these 'endorsements' actually seem to matter to voters.   The intelligentsia should cringe; but they can't.  Too much money flows from Hollywood and Sports figures to their pets.
Output: Yes
Here's a story (topical) about how to agree to disagree:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/14/politics/antonin-scalia-ruth-bader-ginsburg-friends/index.html
Output: No
“The defendants negligently manufactured and distributed a chalupa which contained a foreign object...................."

I believe all fast food contains foreign stuff.
Output: No
I like how the RG editor got it right with the headline in defining the problem, right cause, wrong approach in addressing it. What I find hysterical comedy is claiming; "One wonders how the man defines “people.” Doesn’t he realize that the 330 million of us are the people who hold the deed to the land to which his sign referred? " to then reference the destruction of Native American artifacts. As a Chickasaw allow me to point out the obvious, the 330 million stole this land from us Red Skins, and so if the author is so damn concerned about our artifacts being destroyed I will thank him when he gets off our land and leaves the country.
Output: No
But Prozanski and all the other legislators drive cars. Why aren't they guilty of conflict of interest like you claim Prozanski is for riding a bike? 
And do you have something against those who drive a Prius? What if it was a  Ford C-Max hybrid? Would you have the same belief it would be an "oblivious" liberal?  And what type of vehicles meet your criteria that the driver is not an oblivious liberal?  What vehicle type do people like you drive?
I know that I for one, have issues with young cowboys driving lifted trucks with giant tires extending well beyond the wheel well, flying Confederate flags while spitting chewing tobacco, listening to country drinking songs and rolling coal. But I am trying to not be so quick to judge.  it could be his wife's car.
Output: No
Bullshit not taxing a non residents for income they earned here but tax us. Screw this guy, P.O.S.
Output: Yes
Garland supported the D.C. gun ban in 2007, thereby showing he opposes self-defense and opposes the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. This exposed Garland as a left-wing loon activist unworthy of sitting in judgment on any court bench. I will support the GOP on saving tax payer funding on hearings blocking such left wing activist lunatics. No shame in this. Besides Harry Reid and the democrats Obstructionism set a model in place to follow.
Output: Yes
Andree is an Alaskan hero for being willing to stand up to the corruption that has come to define our state. It's not easy to call out powerful people but she did it, and Sarah crumbled under the pressure. If she'd done nothing wrong, she would have stood tall. But she was a grifter and a liar and we all knew it. So did she, so she slunk away to try to make her fortune elsewhere.
Output: Yes
She swept the south for a number of reasons. Early voting, name recognition, low information voters, full weight of the DNC establishment, and huge media preference, etc. Now that more people know what and who Bernie is, he's done better and better.
Output: No
MY HUMBLE OPINION--LETS have and see a few--SMALL earth tremors !!! and hope to be done with it ??? The WORRY---as I think might be is---EARTH-holding back and GONNA slam us with a MONSTER SHAKER--again--like the 64---  wishful thinking ???!!!!
Output: No
Funny how whenever a "person of color" speaks their opinon (GASP!) you accuse them of being hateful, "racists" or both.  Classic example of projection...
Output: Yes
If I recall the details correctly, Reynolds was an applicant for the job Gissiner got, then she stayed on in her former position, subsequently being fired by Gissiner.
Now, is it any surprise that the person who got the job would find some reason to fire his main potential rival? No, not at all, nor is it a surprise that she'd sue.
The sensible procedure for the City would have been to recognize the all too common political and personal dynamics in Reynolds's firing, and compensate her, without throwing away even more money in fighting what was almost a slam dunk on Reynolds part.
Output: No
Go away Republicans, we've had quite enough of your stupid ideas and lack of leadership.  Just slither away into the tall grass so we can't see or hear  from you.
Output: Yes
There are only so many slices of the pie, Nels. To do as you suggest means taking shares away from smaller native families and giving them to larger families. Your corporation allows gifting, let your family give you shares, leave mine alone.
Output: No
If I found a phone I'd call a recently dialed number or commonly dialed number and ask the person who answers who the phone belongs to. My own phone screen locks so I'm just out of luck if I leave it on the bus, although I never ride the bus in part because I'd be in close quarters with pervs like this.
Output: Yes
We've witnessed dirty presidential Republican Party politics in past elections.  I'll bet that the Republican Party elite may say that they won't endorse Trump, they'll be rolling around on the ground like their demon possessed just to get his attention or have his shadow cast in their direction.  Watch and see.  I love it that Trump is daringly cheery picking which Republican elite he'll let kiss his middle finger.
Output: Yes
Are these producers receiving state money to create this junk that just makes Alaskans look like a bunch of idiots?
Output: Yes
Someone sired by a wildlife biologist would do well not to embarrass him by proclaiming her abysmal ignorance of the natural world and ecological systems and their functions.  And one's chosen dietary perversity has no relevance to this topic.

I have presented facts.  May I suggest this individual either counter my facts with some which disprove them, or stop wasting my and other readers' time.

Better yet, invite said wildlife biologist father to contribute to the discussion.  I would expect him to give a better showing than his bombastic offspring--shrieking and flailing contribute nothing worthwhile to the debate.
Output: Yes
wow!  So the person was unsure what attacked them?......  Fish and Game was sure it was a bear.  What's your mission Fish and Game?  Who's getting fined and who's getting fired?  Start from the top, this is a clear example of terrible misguided leadership.
Output: Yes
what ....?????
Output: No
Again Mr. Tullos, you have not expressed any inefficiencies since Ms. Perlow took over the DA office.  

Also, you never have expressed your deficiencies regarding management and budgetary matters.  And please do not compare to being a one man office and an associate in an office for less than one year as comparable experience for managing an office with a $10 million budget and over 60 full time employees over 5 divisions.
Output: Yes
What kind of a person knows what’s good for others? 

 Not to start a fight, but LTD and Eugene's city council have a history of telling others what they think is best for them, and passing regulation without any added input from others. 

 And supposedly they all work for us.
Output: No
If memory serves, the last college basketball national champion lacking a preseason top 25 ranking was 2003 Syracuse (a very young team returning very few minutes).  It's always good to be ranked high in the preseason poll.  Hopefully the consensus view on Oregon basketball sticks until the polls are released in early November.
Output: No
That's an interesting take. I don't know if I'd be for or against that but it's worth pondering. But it is worth remembering in the quest for statehood and crafting of the Constitution, the 101 million acres the state received and the sub surface mineral rights were negotiated and fought for. Hence, this owner state concept is what has given us the oil wealth.
Output: No
The problem is that tens of millions of adult Americans work for less than a living wage.  I work in a production environment.  My job doesn't require a degree, but we have to do math, and we have to be focused.  There are no teenagers at my workplace.  Most of us are middle-aged, experienced people with a good work ethic.  When someone comes in who's not so bright, or has bad work habits, they get cycled out very quickly.  Yet most of us earn less than $12 per hour.  Our economy has devolved to the point where employers can have grownups for a teenager's wage.  It's nice for them, but not so good for the employees, or for society.

We could have a low teenage wage, or a low first 30-days on the job wage.  If it's really a job that requires no knowledge and no experience, then those employers will be okay with kids and high-turnover adults.  Employers who want grownups should pay a living wage.  A full-time worker should be able to rent an apartment.
Output: No
Once I had a toddler try to knock me off my bike with a snowball. The parent did nothing. I stopped and put the fear of god into that little *#@#! until it hid behind its parent's leg. People don't control their kids and then expect us all to rise to their defense. Kids are jerks. I think you have a good point here (though it was made somewhat in jest).
Output: Yes
so, they teach people how to beg and that is good?
Output: No
they do not have a lot of energy to tax the OIl Industry but they're on drugs to take our pfd.  I'm not for either one, but its just so crazy who they care and don't care about???? hahaha Gotta laugh to keep from going postal.
Output: Yes
If you can't tell from the name, it's a troll account. Hopefully it will be banned quickly. These kind of people are the scum of the earth!
Output: Yes
You really have zero idea how the rating agencies work.
Output: No
Loser posts about losing, imagine that......Dick, you've done it for me. I've tried my best to read something positive in all your fitful posts but I'm done trying because, as I suspected and now know for certain, there is not a scintilla of value.
Output: Yes
What? The PFD is income. Unearned income, granted, but still income. So let's do some math.  Family A. 4 people. 30k earned income, 6k (modest average) PFD unearned income. Taxing the PFD, and that is what it is. (Webster defines taxes as a compulsory contribution to state revenue) 2k or a 5.5% income tax. Family B. 4 people. 100k earned income, 6k pfd. Same 2k pfd tax 1.8% income tax. The pfd TAX targets those that have the least. "Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me."
Output: No
I know it's a chain and not "hip", but the Holiday Inn Express in Astoria is right on the river and has great views of the bridge too.  Have had a couple of nice experiences there when visiting the city.
Output: No
there is no way I would reveal my name or actual identity.  I am not afraid of being held accountable for what I say - they are my opinions, good or bad.  but , there are too many nutjobs out there and it is amazing what can be done with one piece of info, a computer and a vengeful person.   seeing the wildly different opinions and how radical some are....no way I want anyone, either side that radical, knocking on my door.  gary crum puts himself out there and I admire his transparency and bravery.  but I always get a quick hit of anxiety  when i see it and think hope he stays ok.
Output: No