Yearly Archives: 2017
Pro tip: Thompson & Co. unveils Blueprint Alaska
Photo: Sarah Erkmann Ward, Jennifer Thompson
Thompson & Co. Public Relations, will open a new public affairs agency, Blueprint Alaska, on Jan. 1, 2018.
President and...
Crackdown? Slightly harsher penalties now in law
Senate Bill 54 went into effect early Monday, with Gov. Bill Walker signing it into law upon the recommendation of the Department of Law,...
With ‘Friends of Maria’ who needs enemies?
BEGICH, BERKOWITZ, LOTTSFELDT HOSTED
Sen. Maria Cantwell came to Alaska in August, 2017 and took a tidy sum of contributions to her political action committee,...
Pebble looking to finish year on a high note
The Pebble Partnership started the year with three big objectives: Make the Environmental Protection Agency back down from its pre-emptive sanctions against the proposed...
Aloha ‘oe: Hawaii readying for nuke
U.S. MILITARY TO START FIVE-DAY EXERCISES, WITH F-35s
The State of Hawaii has released a series of video messages letting Hawaiian citizens know that they...
History lesson: State government entrenched in self-preservation
By ART CHANCE
SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
Part I: This was part of an introduction to a piece I helped author during the Frank Murkowski for Governor...
Rep. Geran Tarr seeking that ‘#MeToo’ moment in the sun
She's back, and looking for revenge.
THE BACKGROUND
Rep. Geran Tarr, a Democrat from District 19, had a verbal dispute last February with Rep. Mike Chenault,...
Sleeping monster: Health insurance tax about to hit Alaska hard
An onerous provision of Obamacare -- the so-called Affordable Care Act -- was delayed until 2018, but it's about to hit with a nearly...
How is it that a government worker gets to pick his own successor?
The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quit and named his own successor. But President Donald Trump had other ideas.
CFPB is a government...
Document dump: The joint development agreement between Alaska and China
The joint development agreement signed by Gov. Bill Walker and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer with various Chinese entities to develop Alaska's...