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Yearly Archives: 2016

Media played an unwitting role in Trump victory

  “Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet people avoid the question of the Presidency … the great constitutional feature of...

Bright, shiny objects: Governor’s cancer removed, state income taxes ahead

  WALKER RECOVERING: Gov. Bill Walker underwent surgery for four hours on Monday to remove cancerous tissue from his prostate. According to the news release from his office, no...

Phone survey is for sex worker law changes

Hays Research performed a telephone survey across Alaska last week with some unusual questions. The survey explanation to the respondent was posed this way: Community United...

A big project for Walker: Why not build a road to Juneau?

It could have been the William Walker Highway. And it still can be. In early 2015, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker halted the one project that could be built during his time...

Bright, shiny objects: Parties and politics

VICTORY IS SWEET PARTY: About 50 happy folks gathered at the home of Cherie and Scott Curry of Anchorage to celebrate the Nov. 8 conservative...

Tillerson heads to State Department

  ENVIRONMENTAL WARRIORS FUME ExxonMobil, if measured as a country, would rank 30th in gross domestic product. Rex Tillerson is in charge of all-things Exxon. That makes the Eagle Scout son of...

Republicans withdraw support from legislators who defected

During its winter meeting in Anchorage today, Alaska Republican Party officers from around the state publicly rebuked three sitting legislators for having broken away from...

The miracle of Buckland

In August, Must Read Alaska pointed out the extraordinary number of voters in the village of Buckland, Alaska who were too sick, too old, or too disabled to get to...

Obama doubles down on Arctic lockdown

In Alaska, we're now nearly surrounded by Barack Obama's Arctic shutdown. Our northern waters are completely off-limit, he has mandated, for Outer Continental Shelf development. In a detailed executive...

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