{"id":1917,"date":"2012-02-22T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:15:30","slug":"ketchikan-delegation-visits-juneau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan Delegation Visits Juneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I was pleased to welcome to Juneau representatives from the Southeast community of Ketchikan.\u00a0 With around 13,500 residents, Ketchikan is the largest community in Senate District A, which I represent.\u00a0 The delegation made their annual visit to the capital to present the community\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CDAQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.borough.ketchikan.ak.us%2Fdocuments%2FFY2013CommunityofKetchikanProjectBooklet01-2012.pdf&amp;ei=hTVFT8O-FoGNigLetJHuDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZXcs94rDqvzF0djxXvccHtXht4Q\" target=\"_blank\">legislative priorities<\/a> to the administration and legislators.\u00a0 The \u201cCommunity of Ketchikan\u201d is comprised of three Ketchikan area local governments: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borough.ketchikan.ak.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ketchikan Gateway Borough<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ketchikan.ak.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">City of Ketchikan<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.state.ak.us\/dca\/commdb\/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Saxman\" target=\"_blank\">City of Saxman<\/a>. \u00a0During their visit, I met with City and Borough officials as well as representatives from non-profit organizations and businesses.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual Ketchikan visit is widely considered one of the best organized events of the legislative session.\u00a0 I would like to thank the Ketchikan delegation and the entire staff at the Prospector Hotel, where\u00a0the legislative\u00a0reception was held. \u00a0Below is a photo of the\u00a0delegation meeting with me at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_00551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1918\" title=\"Ketchikan group meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_00551-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_00551-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_00551-1024x548.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I was pleased to welcome to Juneau representatives from the Southeast community of Ketchikan.\u00a0 With around 13,500 residents, Ketchikan is the largest community in Senate District A, which I represent.\u00a0 The delegation made their annual visit to the capital to present the community\u2019s legislative priorities to the administration and legislators.\u00a0 The \u201cCommunity of [&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":[7,15,106],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-ketchikan","tag-saxman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}