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NOTN- The City and Borough of Juneau survey seeking public input on how to address a projected $10 million budget gap has officially closed, but now the Assembly is preparing for a series of community workshops to further guide its decisions this tense budget season.
The survey, asked residents to weigh in on municipal services and identify what they value most as the Assembly begins work on the fiscal year 2027 budget.
Assembly Member Neil Steininger said the city faces a significant revenue shortfall following voter-approved ballot measures that eliminated sales tax on food and capped the local mill rate. The changes reduced revenue and left the Assembly with the task of determining how to maintain services with less funding.
“We got that message from the voters that, they wanted lower taxes. We need to figure out how to make that work and how to deliver city services, and we’re really looking for information from the voters to understand what their priorities are for what they see from government here in Juneau.” He said. “It is very difficult to make these decisions, which is something that we want to impress to people.”
Detailed reports from the survey are expected in the coming weeks.
“I think that’s just a really important thing for everyone to do, especially in a community like Juneau that’s so small and so closed, I think it’s important that people actively voice what they want prioritized in our city, so that the assembly can use that information to better inform their decision making.” Steininger said.
In addition to the survey, the city is hosting three in-person Community Compass workshops This month and early March. During the 60- to 90-minute sessions, participants will work through mock budgeting scenarios and discuss how to respond to unexpected financial changes.
“now it’s your turn to put yourself in an assembly member’s shoes and actively decide the city budget and then react to unforeseen circumstances that will ask you to reallocate certain pieces of the budget accordingly.” Steininger said.
Input gathered at the workshops will be shared with the Assembly as it moves deeper into the budgeting process this spring.
The workshops are scheduled for Feb. 18 at the Filipino Community Hall, Feb. 24 at Mendenhall Valley Public Library and March 3 at Douglas Public Library.
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As though 2026 wasn’t weird enough already, aliens are once again making headlines.
Over the weekend, Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, and when the topic of visitors from another planet came up, the former president made a surprising statement:
“They’re real,” Obama said with surprising nonchalance.
“But I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” he continued.
Cohen followed that up by asking Obama what he wanted to know first when he was elected president back in 2008.
“Where are the aliens?” Obama jokingly — we think? — replied.
So yeah, a former president stating that matter-of-factly that aliens exist is a pretty big deal, and the clip went viral for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, it’s not quite as big a bombshell as we initially thought.
In response to the controversy over his statement, Obama took to Instagram to clarify that he was merely voicing his own theory, and he doesn’t actually know whether aliens exist.
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention, let me clarify,” Obama wrote, adding:
“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.
“But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
Yeah, Barack really burst a lot of people’s bubbles with that follow-up statement.
Thus far, 2026 has been a pretty big bummer, and the confirmation that aliens are real added some much-needed excitement and optimism to the social media landscape.
After months of gossip about the Obamas’ marriage, Barack was back to making headlines for cool reasons. It was like 2008 all over again!
Alas, being the mature elder statesman that he is, he felt the need to clarify his remarks once he saw that they’d been misinterpreted.
Unless he does know that aliens are real and the shady cabal dedicated to keeping them a secret pressured him into retracting his remarks!
We’re through the looking glass here, people!
Barack Obama Says Aliens Are Real, Promptly Retracts Statement was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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It’s never too late, right?
For years, many did not know about Jennifer Aniston’s IVF struggles. Her fertility journey never paid off.
Historically, the beloved actress has shied away from adoption.
Apparently, her hypnotist boyfriend may be getting her to come around to the idea. Not through hypnosis, mind you.
New relationship, new perspective on adoption?
According to a new report by RadarOnline, Aniston is again open to the idea of becoming a parent with boyfriend Jim Curtis.
“It was tough at first because Jim has always wanted another child,” an insider source alleged.
“And,” the insider acknowledged, “Jen’s spent years coming to terms with the fact that motherhood wasn’t in the cards for her.”
The source reported: “She genuinely had made peace with it.”
Once a person has gotten closure — with being childfree, with leaving an unwanted career, with a romantic breakup — even the suggestion of reconsidering can be painful.
The insider continued: “Now they have fallen so head over heels in love, they can’t help but talk about what it would be like to have a family together.”
According to the source: “Being with Jim has cracked something open, and made her come around to his suggestion of adopting.”
The insider claimed that “everyone is telling Jen she should do it.”
Allegedly, Aniston’s friends have been accurately telling her “that she’d be the most wonderful mom.”
The source continued: “And it’s not too late to experience motherhood for herself.”
Others in her life are reportedly being encouraging
“Jen has so many friends who have adopted kids,” the insider noted.
“And,” the source went on, “they’ve all told her it was the best choice they’ve ever made.”
Adoption can be controversial, with various adoptees speaking out about everything from abuse to a sense of alienation from cultural heritage to the phenomenon of white evangelicals adopting as part of a “culture war.”
It seems likely that someone growing up as Aniston’s child would be lucky enough to dodge most of those bullets.
Will she take the advice that she’s reportedly getting from loved ones?
“Jen is being cautious,” the inside source reported.
“And,” the insider went on, “says she’s not making any decisions just yet.”
According to the source: “It’s something she and Jim are openly discussing.”
The insider acknowledged that this is something “which is not a scenario anyone would have predicted a year ago.”
Well, it’s always smart to consider one’s options!
This is Aniston’s first major romance since her 2018 divorce
In case you missed our earlier reporting, Jim Curtis is Aniston’s boyfriend. They sparked romance rumors by vacationing together in July 2025.
Curtis is a hypnotist by trade. He once dated Bethenny Frankel.
He is already a parent — he has a teen son from a previous marriage.
We of course cannot verify any aspect of the couple’s alleged conversations about having a kid together.
That seems like a painful topic for Aniston, given her attempts in her 30s and 40s to become a parent. As always, we wish her the very best.
Jennifer Aniston: Reconsidering Motherhood with Boyfriend Jim Curtis? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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