{"id":19387,"date":"2016-07-14T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-july-14-1986\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:00:49","slug":"this-day-in-juneau-history-july-14-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-july-14-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Juneau History: July 14, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14, 1986, state jobs fell even shorter with impending cuts to Alaska\u2019s budget. Even with the many blows that Alaska had taken thus far, officials speculated that the sledgehammer had not been dropped yet but would in the coming year. Oil barrels once sold for $17 each were cut to almost half, ranging from $9-10 each, leaving Alaska\u2019s oil revenue-dependent annual income dwindling.<\/p>\n<p>After recent charges of financial impropriety and mismanagement, some Juneau members of the Alaska Public Employment Association wanted the union\u2019s executive director suspended.<\/p>\n<p>On Alaska\u2019s gubernatorial election front, incumbent Gov. Bill Sheffield faced Fairbanks lawyer Steve Cowper in the Democratic primary. Although before speculators believed them even-matched, Cowper appeared to have the lead. A poll showed that 14.2 percent out of 391 respondents would vote for Cowper compared to Sheffield\u2019s 9.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis Day in Juneau History\u201d is compiled by Empire intern Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day\u2019s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives.&nbsp;<em>To learn more about the project, click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-06-03\/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14, 1986, state jobs fell even shorter with impending cuts to Alaska\u2019s budget. Even with the many blows that Alaska had taken thus far, officials speculated that the sledgehammer had not been dropped yet but would in the coming year. Oil barrels once sold for $17 each were cut to almost half, ranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}