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to our people, our families and our local businesses. As a healthcare professional, it still brings tears of pride to my eyes to contemplate the change in our state. We still have challenges. But we met challeng- es before and have demonstrated an ability to solve _SPX ?SP NL]TMZ` [ZWL] MPL]^ LYO ʭ^S LWW NZPcT^_ with our industries. The important thing is our lands are precious for the resources they contain, and our people can and will thrive by utilizing and steward- ing them. Alaska’s resource development continues to bring health and happiness to our people. >PYL_P;]P^TOPY_.L_Sd2TP^^PWL=P[`MWTNLY]P[]P^PY_^ District N, which covers parts of Anchorage and com- X`YT_TP^LWZYR?`]YLRLTY,]X>PY2TP^^PWT^_SPL` - thor of the legislation that created Alaska Mining Day.
eas, now thriving communities with schools, clinics, roads, and jobs. In one very remote community, I was on the same ʮTRS_bT_SLdZ`YRXLYRZTYR_ZST^UZML_;]`OSZP Bay. His wife and little son bid him good-bye at the airport. The airline agent told me that the young man was the pride of the community, bringing his pay- check back home, helping his parents and grandpar- ents out with fuel costs in the winter, and supporting his family. That is what resource development means for Alaska’s families. It’s all about our people. Yes, we love the state government revenue and services that pays for. We have all prospered during these years since oil and mining production. But the XZ^_ TX[Z]_LY_ MPYPʭ_ ZQ ]P^Z`]NP OPaPWZ[XPY_ T^
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April 2019
The Alaska Miner
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