Monthly Archives: May, 2019
Riot at Spring Creek: 9 hours of hell
THESE ARE THE PRISONERS WHO COULD BE SHIPPED OUT OF STATE
Spring Creek Correctional Center is where the meanest and most violent prisoners typically go...
House Republicans take a pass on watered down crime bill
REP. CLAMAN'S LIMP AMENDMENTS, SOFT ON CRIME
A watered down criminal justice bill that had been introduced in February by Gov. Michael Dunleavy passed the...
Senate passes $174 million capital budget
The Alaska Senate today passed a capital budget for Fiscal Year 2020. The $174 million spending in Senate Bill 19 will be matched by over...
Did Dunleavy just say that he won’t veto education?
WHY YES, HE DID. TWICE.
In a live broadcast Facebook event today, Gov. Michael Dunleavy made a surprising statement: If the House and Senate put...
MRAK Almanac: Denali climb report, Friends of Nike Summit open house
May 9, 1879: Alonzo E. Austin arrived in Sitka, the territorial capital, as a Presbyterian missionary. Two years later he would open a boarding school...
Vic Fischer’s birthday ‘bash’ of the governor
The last surviving signer of the Alaska Constitution used his birthday trip to Juneau to appear in front of a Democrat-controlled committee and bash...
Coast Guard rescues five near Coronation Island in Southeast
NOT FAR FROM SITE OF FAMOUS SHIPWRECK
Crew members from a fishing vessel out of Sitka are safe today after their vessel was grounded near...
Enviro-groups sue to stop logging on Prince of Wales
Eight conservation groups, represented by EarthJustice, sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop logging in the Tongass National Forest.
The lawsuit says the Forest...
A race to gun control by fiat
As the Democratic clown car veers to the left end of the political spectrum for 2020’s presidential contest, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and...
Legislative notes: LeDoux loses committee chairmanship
Notes from today's proceedings at the Capitol:
Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux lost her chairmanship of Military and Veterans Affairs Committee and was stripped of her...