Yearly Archives: 2017
Heard on the Street: Dubke’s back?
Word is out that Gov. Bill Walker's Chief of Staff Scott Kendall is working on getting his former boss, Mike Dubke, a contract with...
Opening ANWR tied to tax reform
MURKOWSKI POSITIONED TO GET THE 51 VOTES NEEDED
ROBERT DILLON / COMMENTARY
The Senate on Thursday adopted a budget resolution for the coming fiscal year that...
Quote of the Week: Walker says budget not ‘bloated’
"Show us where it's bloated."
- Alaska Gov. Bill Walker at Alaska Federation of Natives on Thursday, saying the state's budget is not bloated.
Here's an...
Opioid addiction: Murkowski, Warren scold Trump on inaction
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have written a scolding and public letter to President Trump for not having declared a national emergency...
Democrat to head Commerce Department
Gov. Bill Walker has tapped a well-known politico from the Kenai Peninsula to head the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
Walker's choice,...
Launched: Campaign to kill income tax
Jeremy Price says it's time Gov. Bill Walker focuses on shrinking the scope of government, not on taxing an ever-shrinking number of employed Alaskans...
Judge rules Democratic Party can run ‘nonpartisans’ in their primary
(THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY)
In a 33-page ruling, an Alaska Superior Court judge has ruled that the Alaska Democratic Party may run candidates in...
Trump: Alaska’s Tara Sweeney to head up BIA
President Donald Trump has announced his intent to name Alaskan Tara Sweeney as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a division of the...
Citizens use 45-caliber justice while they wait for SB 54
Last week, when two alleged car thieves were trying to snatch a vehicle in North Pole, a resident of Faultline Avenue took aim and fired.
One...
Valley Assembly race may go to recount, but Fairbanks Assembly seat settled
On Oct. 3, Mat-Su Valley businessman Mokie Tew had a 20-vote lead against incumbent and Democrat Party-backed Dan Mayfield for the District 5 (Big...