{"id":22504,"date":"2016-05-08T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-hb-275s-amendment\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:04:14","slug":"letter-hb-275s-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-hb-275s-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: HB 275&#8217;s amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This letter is not to embarrass our good Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, and his good work, but to avoid further mistakes in introducing legislative bills. I\u2019m not sending copies of this letter to other statewide newspapers due to our entering \u201celection season\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p>In the April 21 Nome Nugget,\u201dRep. Foster wrote in his Foster Report: \u201cI amended HB 275: \u2014 Indigenous People\u2019s Day; Katie John Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wholeheartedly appreciate the bill\u2019s intent but Mrs. Katie John or her name should not be used as an \u201cearmark\u201d to pass another bill. \u201cKatie John Day\u201d and \u201cIndigenous People\u2019s Day\u201d \u2014 separately \u2014 should be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Albert Ningeulook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shishmaref<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter is not to embarrass our good Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, and his good work, but to avoid further mistakes in introducing legislative bills. I\u2019m not sending copies of this letter to other statewide newspapers due to our entering \u201celection season\u201d again. In the April 21 Nome Nugget,\u201dRep. Foster wrote in his Foster Report: [&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":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504","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=22504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22504"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}