Monthly Archives: June, 2019
Alaska Life Hack: Solar energy growing in 49th State
"Happy Summer Solstice" is the greeting of the day. Are we harnessing the power of the midnight sun? Not so much.
The 49th state may...
MRAK Almanac: The ‘sleep when we die’ edition
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Victim of homicide: Chris Lebert
The man found dead in the road on Minnesota Drive on Tuesday in Anchorage has been identified as Christopher Lebert, age 36.
His death has...
Why no capital budget yet? Failure of Democrat-led Majority, or Republican Minority?
WHAT REP. SPOHNHOLZ SAID
Rep. Ivy Spohnholz would have you believe that the 2020 capital budget failed because House Republican minority members voted against it....
Pioneer Home rate increases? Public comment deadline approaches
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June 28 is the deadline for public comment on planned increases in rates at the state-operated Pioneer Homes, those Alaska-centric assisted living facilities...
A rational solution for the dividend program
By TOM WILLIAMS
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
To solve the deadlock over the 2019 Permanent Fund dividend amount and the FY 2020 state education budget, the Legislature and...
Hit and run now considered homicide
A hit-and-run resulting in a dead man and his downed motorcycle in the southbound lane of Minnesota Parkway at 15th Avenue is now being...
Ambition above the law: Quintillion former CEO sentenced to five years
The former CEO of Quintillion, a fiber optics cable company in Alaska, has been sentenced in a New York federal court to 5 years...
They did what?
So, with lawmakers ignoring a law they passed cutting off their $302-a-day per diem if they failed to pass a budget in 121 days,...
Satanic invocation opens Kenai Assembly meeting
For the second time in three years, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting has been opened with an invocation from satanist Iris Fontana, representing...