Yearly Archives: 2017

ADMINSTRATION FINALLY ADMITS OIL PRODUCTION IS INCREASING For three years in a row, Alaska's oil fields have been producing more each year. That hasn't happened...

 BORROWS $60 MILLION FOR PENSION OBLIGATIONS The budget proposed by Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has a sleeping giant in it -- a plan to incur...

The Tuesday runoff election for Kenai Borough mayor appears to favor Charlie Pierce, with 51.66 percent and Linda Hutchings with 48.34 percent of the...

Rick Rydell, talk radio host, caribou hunter, and keen political observer, asked his audience of 100 what the most dangerous animal in Alaska is. The...

"I’m pretty sure I was one of the 700 that participated. The questions and possible answers were very much designed to achieve the results...

The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation board of directors yesterday learned that the staff of the agency commissioned a poll to determine how the project...

THE PROTESTORS HAVE INFILTRATED THE MEDIA Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Dan Sullivan and other Senate leaders are having their weekly policy luncheon today, and President...

On April 7, when the House Democrats received Senate Bill 54 crime legislation after it passed the Senate, they assigned it to three committees...

By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR If you were to judge our economic prospects by listening to most media reports and political commentary, you would conclude Alaska’s...

GARY WILKEN GUEST COMMENTARY I’ve great respect for Gov. Bill Walker. He’s been dealt some difficult hands to play, particularly in regard to our state’s budget....