Yearly Archives: 2017

Dog days of campaigning: Gov. Walker’s fake salary reduction

Suzanne Downing - July 11, 2017 2

SLUSH FUND: Gov. Bill Walker last year said he would cut his own salary by one third, starting July 1, 2017. This would save the...

Full court press on Alaska delegation over Obamacare

Suzanne Downing - July 10, 2017 1

HERE COME THE UNION-BACKED ADS: Save My Care, the union-backed group fighting changes to Obamacare, is launching a "seven-figure TV ad buy" targeting Alaska, Nevada, Maine...

Schadenfreude, an Alaskan political reverie

Suzanne Downing - July 9, 2017 1

BY MURRAY WALSH COMMENTARY It has been an interesting 15 months in Alaska and America from a political standpoint. I think that period of time deserves a bit...

Look for the union label: It’s off to the races for Walker, Grenn

Suzanne Downing - July 9, 2017 5

The campaign season has begun for Gov. Bill Walker, and it looks like he's leaning toward a Party-of-One candidate again. No one really know about Walker's...

Heads and Tails: Briefs from around the 49th state

Suzanne Downing - July 7, 2017 0

WRANGELL LABOR DISPUTE LABORS ON: Wrangell officials have pulled out of contact talks with the IBEW, the union representing municipal workers. Twenty-four utility and other workers...

Alice Rogoff’s terrifying crash landing: NTSB report

Suzanne Downing - July 7, 2017 0

Alice Rogoff, owner of the Alaska Dispatch News, had just completed a trip to the Nushagak River on July 3, 2016. She had dropped...

Worst negotiators in modern Alaska history?

Suzanne Downing - July 6, 2017 7

By SCOTT HAWKINS SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR As lawmakers return irritably to Juneau next week, a fascinating dynamic has emerged: Gov. Bill Walker and Senate Republicans, who...

PFC Hansen Kirkpatrick: Barely old enough to vote, and he is gone

Suzanne Downing - July 6, 2017 2

Somewhere in Wasilla, Alaska, there are a mom and dad whose brave son went off to war in January and will return in a flag-draped casket...

Heads and Tails: Juneau’s House of Cards, circa 1981

Suzanne Downing - July 6, 2017 4

A COUP TO REMEMBER: The last time the Alaska Legislature stayed in session this long was back in the 1980s, when Rep. Jim Duncan,...

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