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Monthly Archives: August, 2016

Begich needs to come clean — but can he?

BEGICH ACCUSES, BUT WON'T TAKE A STAND HIMSELF By ANN BROWN I read with interest former Sen. Mark Begich's Aug. 12 Alaska Dispatch News column about our congressional...

Great Alaska garage sale has THIS amazing benefit

THEY DON'T MESS AROUND IN FAIRBANKS Now that you're reading, this garage sale event is a fundraiser for John Sturgeon, who took his case against the National Park...

Why did BP support the governor’s AK-LNG project?

GOVERNOR WALKER HAS BP IN A VISE OVER PRUDHOE During two days of legislative hearings that concluded Thursday on the Alaska gasline project, also known as...

New direction for Alaska gasline ends in questions

TWO DAYS OF HEARINGS BRING MORE DOUBTS The governor has spent the past two days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the Federal Reserve conference talking...

Governor walks back administrative order

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 279? OH, NEVERMIND In February, Governor Bill Walker decided to transfer most of the duties of the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, which is a fiscally self-sustaining...

More double ballots handed out? It looks that way in Chefornak

CHEFORNAK VOTES LIKE A BOSS On Primary Election Day, Aug. 16, the people in Shungnak were given two ballots to vote on -- a Republican...

Who is Len Blavatnik and why is the governor helping him?

THE QUINTILLIONAIRE At 58, Leonard Blavatnik seems to have it all. The billionaire's net worth is about one third of the Alaska Permanent Fund. He owns...

Senate State Affairs hearing set on primary election

SHUNGNAK VOTING RAISES QUESTIONS Senate State Affairs Chairman Bill Stolze has scheduled a hearing on Aug. 29 to delve into the irregularities of the Aug....

Bright, shiny objects: Voters went red, Grenn ‘endorsers’ distance themselves

PRIMARY VOTERS STICK WITH REPUBLICANS The idea that Alaska is turning blue -- or even purple -- was disproved by the primary election. In 32 of the 40...

Mallott’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no good elections

ELECTION OVERSIGHT  IS UNHOLY MESS 100 ballots cast in Shungnak? Fifty ballots cast, and then another 50. Exactly half went Republican and half went Democrat-Independence-Libertarian (the ADL ballot). But...

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