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Yearly Archives: 2016

SB 128: Imperfect solution, but at least a solution

ALASKA, THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT We are in a recession. There – we acknowledged the grenade on the table.  Now, to explain: In the best of all possible...

Political theater falls flat for Lindbeck

FIRST STAB AT POLITICAL RELEVANCE Did candidate Steve Lindbeck receive his Screen Actors Guild card? What with all the theater he's engaged in lately, he should go...

Chronic absenteeism: Alaska students take second

GO BIG OR GO  HOME? Alaska goes big when it comes to school nonattendance. While the national average of chronic school absenteeism was 13 percent in the...

Library, Museum opening: ‘Welcome, all you foreigners’

What was missing during the ceremony Among the 10 speakers who welcomed a few hundred Juneau residents to the grand opening of the Father Andrew P....

Who’s running: Senate & House

Senate and House seats The filing deadline is in the rearview mirror. Here are the candidates who have lined up to run for Alaska Senate and...

Governor: Frustrated beyond belief

PICTURE OF INEFFECTIVENESS The governor is frustrated. Governor Bill Walker is so frustrated he would not meet with Senate President Kevin Meyer or House Speaker Mike...

Wither the gas line?

It has gotten awfully quiet Parents know that sensation they get when all of a sudden the kids are just too quiet. Well, parents, the kids...

More of our highest paid state workers

Only 20 pages or so to go of state workers paid $125,000 or more...

Road to common sense: Governor has a decision

  Juneau has jumped through every hoop Back in the late 1960s, the road north out of Juneau ended at Eagle River, and it was washboard...

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