Alternative View on Access to Mainland and Negotiations

Tip Johnson submitted his view on the negotiations and possible deal as a comment to the latest ‘negotiation progress‘ post, but they seem more appropriate as a separate post.  Tip includes (not for the first time) a link to the petition to Congress to re-confirm (‘perfect’) the federal road right-of-way from the mainland at Gooseberry [...]

Your Help is Needed for Petitioning Effort!

PLIC members are working tirelessly to sustain the petitioning of our Congressional delegation at this very crucial time in our efforts to keep our ferry running at Gooseberry Point.  We need to increase the pressure and not lose steam.   You would be surprised at how many islanders, friends and relatives you alone can get to [...]

More on Petitioning- Now is the Time!

Mike McKenzie, Jeff Campbell, and many island volunteers and residents are tirelessly working to engage as many people as possible in the push to flood our Congressional delegation with requests for their support.   They have this update…. To assist a show of solidarity, will you please use these petitions to help garner support from [...]

Petitioning Federal Reps Made Easy!

Our Congressional Delegation needs to hear from us today, and Jeff Campbell has made it easy to contact them.  (Pete Kremen and Clifford Cultee are in Washington D.C. right now). As part of my efforts, on behalf of PLIC, to collect as many signatures as possible urging our Congressional representatives to urge BIA to sign [...]

New information and analysis about Gooseberry Lease

Tip Johnson just published a new, extended analysis of  where We the People and We our County Government seem to be (or not) with regard to the lease negotiations / mediation. Those who think that this analysis makes sense might consider sending the link to J. Richard Manning (email: JMB@SEANET.COM) who is the mediator, as [...]

Brenner answer to ‘mediation’ questions

Since it can sometimes be hard to find comments, Barbara asked me to post her answers to the 3 questions I posed a few days ago in my comment on the story about mediation maybe starting before the end of October. She wanted to make it clear that her answer was in response to my [...]

Discussion of petition to feds

There’s quite a bit of recent discussion, under an earlier post (Crucial Time in Ferry Negotiations – Again) of the petition to the feds drafted by Tip Johnson.  If you are interested in the petition approach, it probably is worthwhile going to that post and scrolling down to read the full discussion. For future discussion [...]