Yearly Archives: 2019
Kenai teachers unions run the healthcare plan, and want taxpayers to pay for it
By ART CHANCE
I have trouble taking teacher strikes seriously; they’re generally either the result of hysteria or they’re a charade, and sometimes there is...
Military training labeled Alaska family advocacy group a ‘hate group’
A recent training at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, intended for new military members, identified the Alaska Family Council as a hate group.
The public affairs...
Kenai Peninsula teachers union sets strike for Tuesday
Teachers and staff of two public employee unions in the Kenai Peninsula School District have set a strike date for Tuesday. They have been...
Berkowitz tells university administration to break deal with governor
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, fresh off his trip to Japan, attended a meeting of the University Board of Regents in Anchorage on Thursday, where...
The Mallott papers: Donna Walker weighed in on LG
The Associated Press dug deeper than any other news agency to find a gem of an email.
It was from Donna Walker, former First...
Touchy subjects tackled
At Brave Conversations, facilitator Leigh Sloan is cultivating a community of people who meet monthly to learn from those who think differently on a...
Watch Rep. Don Young being awesome on ANWR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dZMLt3hr0&feature=youtu.be
The U.S. House on Thursday voted 225-193 to reinstate the ban on oil and gas drilling on the Coastal Plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife...
Tense meetings, threats, strike date nigh: Another day in Kenai teacher union drama
Public school teachers on the Kenai Peninsula have been working without a contract for more than 400 days.
But it is going to be...
BLM to offer entire coastal plain of ANWR for energy leases
An 800,000-acre section of the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be open to oil and gas leases, with the publishing...
Famed stunt pilot with Alaska roots OK after plane flips on runway
Patty Wagstaff, an aviation aerobatic champion who learned how to fly in Alaska, is OK after her plane flipped on the runway in St....