Yearly Archives: 2018
Southeast Alaska faces a redistricting peril
By WIN GRUENING
SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
After U. S. independence, the country's population grew, but did not grow equally. Some towns and counties grew much faster and...
Assessing the midterm election: Ballot Measure 1 failed to turn out voters
TURNOUT MODERATE
Two weeks after the Nov. 6 General Election in Alaska, enough of the absentee votes are counted that we can take a look...
Dunleavy’s Labor Commissioner: Tamika Ledbetter
Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy announced Tamika Ledbetter as his Labor and Workforce Development commissioner.
Ledbetter is an equal opportunity coordinator for the department. She works in...
Red letter day: Political appointees asked to resign
Political appointments are, by nature, temporary job holders.
Those hundreds of people appointed by Gov. Bill Walker when he took over in 2014 have now...
Inaugural events set
DUNLEAVY TRANSITION TEAM ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE
Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy’s transition team announced the following schedule of inaugural celebrations.
Sun., Dec. 2, Kotzebue: Pre-inaugural events
Mon., Dec....
Rogoff: Hopfinger, Coyne and her were like ‘three-way marriage’
PUBLISHER ASSUMED THEY WERE PARTNERS FOR LIFE
By CRAIG MEDRED
CRAIGMEDRED.NEWS
The staid facade to which 67-year-old, millionaire publisher Alice Rogoff has clung through more than a...
Seesaw: Fairbanks absentees give LeBon the win with five votes?
RECOUNT LIKELY FOR DISTRICT 1 HOUSE SEAT
The cliffhanger election in District 1 Fairbanks continues today, as absentees were counted.
What's being decided today is the...
Rogoff says former partner Hopfinger is lying about napkin contract
SHE SAYS IT WAS 'INCENTIVE COMP'
BY CRAIG MEDRED
CRAIGMEDRED.NEWS
The former owner of the bankrupt and gone Alaska Dispatch News/ADN.com took the stand in Anchorage Superior...
Polar bear population healthy, study shows
Retreating sea ice notwithstanding, the polar bear population off the western coast of Alaska's Chukchi Sea appears to be abundant and healthy.
A study by...
Dunleavy asks Walker Administration to halt regulations for now
At the Resource Development Council conference in Anchorage on Wednesday, Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy said he is asking Gov. Bill Walker to put a freeze...