Monthly Archives: November, 2017
Thanksgiving challenge
This won't take long.
We hear about the Christmas spirit, but whoever talks about the Thanksgiving spirit?
Like family, we take Thanksgiving for granted at times....
Anchorage budget explodes
Oops! They did it again.
On Tuesday evening, the "Taxing Nine" on the Anchorage Assembly approved a $521 million operating budget for the coming fiscal...
Feeling grateful in the Great Land
GIVING BACK AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
By SCOTT HAWKINS
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
Each Thanksgiving, I feel thankful for all that Alaska offers to its families.
Having experienced tough...
AK Dems took money from Franken PAC
AL FRANKEN FUNDED ALASKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY, MARK BEGICH
The Alaska Democratic Party was a beneficiary of Sen. Al Franken's political action committee, "Midwest Values." Some $2,500...
Pinnacle Group stands up business for conservative candidates
From the looks of it, the new campaign consultancy Pinnacle Group AK is going to be busy in 2018.
While talking about their plans for...
Lawsuit: Is frozen ground considered wetlands?
TIN CUP LLC VS. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS APPEALED
What if all of Alaska's permafrost qualified as wetlands?
A court appeal filed on Oct. 31...
Obama calling: ‘Indivisible’ dials Alaska homes
PRESSURE MOUNTS ON MURKOWSKI FROM LEFT
The left wing group known as "Indivisible" has put out the word to people in "Blue States" like California...
Why I support eliminating the individual mandate tax penalty
By SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI
I have always supported the freedom to choose. I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something...
Demboski vs the Anchorage Press – who’s right?
DID ANCHORAGE PRESS GO TOO FAR?
A recent front page of the Anchorage Press had a prominent illustration of sexual bondage, and talk show...
Part II: A mother’s love, what the shaman said, escape from Russia
(Part II: Drue Pearce, who was incoming Alaska Senate President in November of 1994, and her husband Michael Williams had arrived in Yakutsk, Russia...