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Yearly Archives: 2017

Walker rolls over on access to Klutina Lake fishing grounds

WHITHER THE KLUTINA ROAD The Walker Administration is negotiating behind closed doors to cut off public access to one of the most popular and unique fishing,...

Chris Cox says Anchorage downtown murder rate is higher than Chicago

AND THAT'S A PROBLEM: It's not lost on downtown Anchorage Assembly candidate Chris Cox that his lifelong neighborhood has a murder rate that exceeds that...

Juneau continues sales tax exemption for cruise passengers

The Juneau City and Borough Assembly on Monday voted to continue the existing practice that exempts cruise ship passengers from an onboard sales tax. It's a...

Juneau needs to take a time out on cruise sales tax

By WIN GRUENING “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age...

Bright, shiny objects: Obamacare sticker shock, busy week ahead in Legislature

OUTRAGEOUS-CARE: An Alaskan sent us the final tally that she and her husband would owe if they signed up for Obamacare. The two own a...

Jeremy Carl: What in the world just happened? Reflections on the 2016 election

Editor's note: Readers have asked if Must Read Alaska would reprint the Lincoln Day Address by author Jeremy Carl, who is a fellow at...

Trump unwinds Obama order banning guns for some Social Security recipients

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a congressional resolution that axed what many Second Amendment advocates call President Obama’s "Social Security Gun Ban." The ban was eight years in...

Services set for Barbara Andrews-Mee

The memorial service for Barbara Andrews-Mee, longtime aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, is set for 4 pm, March 12 at Indian Lake Estates United Methodist Church,...

Bright, shiny objects: Gillam to Mar-a-Lago, House Finance budget hearings

JOINING TRUMP FOR DINNER Alaskan millionaire and private equity investor Robert Gillam has landed his jet in Miami this afternoon, and is heading to Donald...

House Democrats raid savings account sacred to them two years ago

On Tuesday, the Democrat-controlled House Finance committee made a budgetary end run to use a portion of the Alaska Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve as a patch...

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