Monthly Archives: July, 2017
Newsletter outtakes: Bathrooms, bombs, budget blues
From today's Must Read Alaska Monday morning newsletter. Sign up at the right and get the full edition every Monday.
GOOD MORNING ALASKA ... Last week...
Heads and Tails: Drue Pearce tapped for federal safety agency
From Sitka, today, where Must Read Alaska found an American bald eagle colluding with a Russian Orthodox Church to dry its wings. In broad daylight.
DRUE...
For Murkowski, a crisis of her own making
Josh Walton, the executive director of the Alaska Republican Party, picked up the phone one more time today, for what seemed like the hundredth...
Heads and Tails: Murkowski responds, Walker appoints
MURKOWSKI IN HER OWN WORDS
Must Read Alaska received this message from Sen. Lisa Murkowski this morning:
“I pledged early on that I would work with the...
Trump puts Alaska projects on ice?
Alaska energy projects, and even the road to King Cove, may be put hold by the Trump Administration.
While Alaskans debate the wisdom of Alaska Sen....
Juneau Access gutted by capital budget
Juneau road advocates were disappointed Wednesday after the capital budget documents were posted online and they discovered the Juneau Access project has indeed been gutted.
The...
Heads and Tails: Murkowski pans Trump’s trans ban; Trump tweet-trolls Lisa
HERO OF THE DAY: CHRISTIAN TROSVIG
The U.S. Coast Guard released dramatic video of a rescue of a fisherman who had gone overboard from the fishing...
Sullivan, Murkowski statements on their opposite votes on Obamacare
Alaska's two senators voted opposite each other on the "motion to proceed" on consideration of health care reform legislation, including a repeal of Obamacare.
WHAT...
Murkowski votes to keep Obamacare; did she put ANWR at risk?
On a procedural vote to decide whether to allow a debate about the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski today was a "no"...
Juneau Access priority to state — but not to House Democrats
The Legislature convenes in special session this week to tackle the capital budget, those precious few project dollars the State has during this fiscal crunch...