CDQ champions recognized

Deckboss certainly didn't receive an invitation. Heck, he didn't even known it was happening.

But apparently a big event was held last week in Anchorage to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Community Development Quota program.

The festivities included recognizing 15 people who helped create one of Alaska's "most innovative and successful economic development projects."

Among the honorees: the late Sen. Ted Stevens, the late Harvey Samuelsen of Dillingham, former state "fisheries tsar" Clem Tillion of Halibut Cove, and former Anchorage banker Ed Rasmuson.

For the complete list and more details on the March 30 celebration, check out this press release.

Launched in 1992, the CDQ program is a government initiative that reserves roughly 10 percent of the Bering Sea's lucrative fish and crab quotas for the benefit of Western Alaska villages. Six companies represent groups of villages, managing their seafood harvests and investments.

The six CDQ companies have amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, including interests in large fishing vessels and processing plants. Creating rural jobs and educational opportunities is a major focus for the CDQ program, its leaders say.

Unrest is in the air..

This spring is shaping up to be quite a strange one already! With Occupy back in the news..and in Union Square..and May Day coming up things are looking like anarchy. Everywhere I turn there is political graffiti, OWS stickers, people protesting some place or another. With the shooting death of the 17 year old causing the Million Hoodie March things feel like they can just bust apart at the seams at any point.

I had some awful drama trying to help a guy that was using opiates and lying about it..to me, to his friends, to his bandmates I am sure..Oxycotin, Morphine..who the hell knows. All I know is I just have to cut off all ties with drug abusers. Never trust a junkie is the truest statement in the world maybe. Lie, deny, then lie some more. Then turn on you for trying to help. Can't people just drink some red wine once a week and be happy? Jeez. It IS Jesus Juice after all!

Here are some pics of some stuff i saw around town..more to come soon..The one that says LIES and in Spanish too is in the elevator of my building. They asked everyone to take out our air conditioners so they can paint the fire escapes then never did it. People were mad apparently!..and poor Stewie in the trash..Anarchy I tell you! Happy Spring All! It is just getting started!