{"id":1624,"date":"2011-09-26T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:40:07","slug":"sitka-chamber-of-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Sitka Chamber of Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the opportunity to address the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitkachamber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sitka Chamber of Commerce<\/a> to discuss state issues with local business leaders.\u00a0 Sitka has several major infrastructure projects scheduled during this next year and I was pleased to update the group on what the state is doing to grow the economy.\u00a0 Projects such as raising the Blue Lake Dam, road improvements, and construction of a pool at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mehs.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Edgecumbe High School<\/a> will provide jobs and improve the quality of life in our community.\u00a0 I also briefed the group on arctic oil &amp; gas issues, and discussions the legislature will have on how to best incentivize oil &amp; gas development while ensuring Alaska gets its fair share from state owned hydrocarbon resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the opportunity to address the Sitka Chamber of Commerce to discuss state issues with local business leaders.\u00a0 Sitka has several major infrastructure projects scheduled during this next year and I was pleased to update the group on what the state is doing to grow the economy.\u00a0 Projects such as raising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,48,63,17,13],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-hydro","tag-mt-edgecumbe-high-school","tag-oil","tag-sitka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}