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Monthly Archives: February, 2017

Barbara Andrews-Mee, longtime aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, passes

Barbara Andrews-Mee, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens for 36 years, has died in Indian Lake Estates, Florida, where she was retired and had...

Homer City Council backs away from ‘resist’ resolution

'LIVE AND LET LIVE' PRINCIPLES REMAIN The coast is clear: People of all political opinions and social views may enter the town of Homer, where...

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Every Monday, 8,300 Alaskans receive the Must Read Alaska Monday newsletter in their inboxes before 8:30 am Alaska Time. It's always a wild ride...

Homer city council to consider ‘softened’ resolution after blowback

The Homer City Council will tonight consider Resolution 17-09, but not the original draft of 17-09. Tonight, rather than take on President Donald Trump directly, the council...

Tribal banishments, and the complications of frontier justice

In 2013, Sand Point residents became increasingly alarmed when a suspected drug dealer kept showing up in town. Whenever the angular stranger disembarked from a plane, young people started...

Squalling women for Planned Parenthood show up, but not in numbers

Sen. Dan Sullivan had to know it was coming this week. But he probably didn't know how underwhelming the turnout was when Planned Parenthood targeted him...

House Resources, under anti-oil control, squelches industry leader

FIREWORKS AS GERAN TARR SCOLDS WITNESS An Alaska's State House Resources Committee co-chair, already on the record against oil development, interrupted the testimony of Alaska's spokesperson for the oil...

Teddy Roosevelt didn’t settle for less in Panama; we need that spirit now

The Rotterdam approaches a set of locks in the Panama Canal in early February. THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL By WIN GRUENING In my last column, while sailing...

Juneau Assembly to homeless: No trespass-sleeping downtown

Juneau is home to about 32,000 people, 238 of whom are homeless, according to a recent "point in time" survey. With the homeless population being less than one...

Alaska Senate resolution supports Don Young, state fish and wildlife management

  JUNEAU - The Alaska Senate today approved a resolution supporting U.S. Rep. Don Young's effort to overturn an 11th-hour rule by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

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