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Yearly Archives: 2017

Bright, shiny objects: Obamacare sticker shock, busy week ahead in Legislature

OUTRAGEOUS-CARE: An Alaskan sent us the final tally that she and her husband would owe if they signed up for Obamacare. The two own a...

Jeremy Carl: What in the world just happened? Reflections on the 2016 election

Editor's note: Readers have asked if Must Read Alaska would reprint the Lincoln Day Address by author Jeremy Carl, who is a fellow at...

Trump unwinds Obama order banning guns for some Social Security recipients

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a congressional resolution that axed what many Second Amendment advocates call President Obama’s "Social Security Gun Ban." The ban was eight years in...

Services set for Barbara Andrews-Mee

The memorial service for Barbara Andrews-Mee, longtime aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, is set for 4 pm, March 12 at Indian Lake Estates United Methodist Church,...

Bright, shiny objects: Gillam to Mar-a-Lago, House Finance budget hearings

JOINING TRUMP FOR DINNER Alaskan millionaire and private equity investor Robert Gillam has landed his jet in Miami this afternoon, and is heading to Donald...

House Democrats raid savings account sacred to them two years ago

On Tuesday, the Democrat-controlled House Finance committee made a budgetary end run to use a portion of the Alaska Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve as a patch...

House Finance passing school taxes to urban property taxpayers

RURAL ALASKANS WOULD BE EXEMPT Anchorage and Mat-Su property taxpayers beware. Fairbanks, hold onto your wallet. And Juneau property owners, you're about to get sticker shock. On Tuesday, Rep....

Barbara Andrews-Mee, longtime aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, passes

Barbara Andrews-Mee, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens for 36 years, has died in Indian Lake Estates, Florida, where she was retired and had...

Homer City Council backs away from ‘resist’ resolution

'LIVE AND LET LIVE' PRINCIPLES REMAIN The coast is clear: People of all political opinions and social views may enter the town of Homer, where...

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