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Revenue commissioner: Food stamps could be cut

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Commissioner Hoffbeck in 2015, screenshot from 360north.org BUT COULD THEY? It was Wednesday, and Alaska Commissioner of Revenue Randy Hoffbeck was once again explaining to legislators how any further...

Reining in ‘bull poop’ federal overreach as clock runs out

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DEMOCRATS DEFEND FEDERAL MANAGEMENT OF ALASKA RESOURCES Alaska Congressman Don Young and Sen. Dan Sullivan are working against the clock and also against Democrats from Outside states....

Obamacare hitting the skids in Alaska?

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It's not looking good for Obamacare in Alaska, or the rest of the nation, for that matter. According to one major health insurance executive,...

Events

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FEB 16: 5:30 p.m., Young Republicans' February Social at the Anchorage Distillery, 6310 A St, Anchorage. Guest speaker is Albert Fogle, a Republican running for Anchorage Assembly. FEB. 17: Mat-Su...

Pruitt for EPA may be voted on this week…or not

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  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checkmated purposefully lethargic Democrats who have dragged out the approval process for President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees. On Monday, McConnell filed "cloture" for six of...

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  A lifetime of participating as a news writer and news consumer leaves Must Read Alaska with data points aplenty on the nature of bias. It just creeps in,...

Step right up and get your new Anchorage Assembly and School Board here

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(NOTE: UPDATED FEB. 15, 2017) If you're in Anchorage, there's an election in your future -- and it could be important to your future. Voting is April 4...

Venezuelans make a run for the border

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AND TERRORISTS MAY BE AMONG THEM POP QUIZ: What socialist country in South America famously sent oil to Alaska villages back when some rural heating...

That time when President Jimmy Carter banned Iranian immigrants

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President Donald Trump has raised the ire of those who object to his limits on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. But he's not the first...
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