Yearly Archives: 2017
Alaska Democrats’ chair issues mandates on sexual harassment
DOES NOT APOLOGIZE FOR IGNORING STAFF PLEAS
The chair of the Alaska Democratic Party sent a letter to fellow Democrats on Friday to articulate a...
Historic tax bill opens Arctic plain for oil
The Alaska team in Washington delivered.
It was well into Saturday morning in Washington, D.C. when the Senate passed an historic tax cut for most...
‘One-Year Club’ inductee: KTUU’s Baird signs on with Walker
GOVERNOR GOES ON PR OFFENSE FOR ELECTIONS
Covering the political scene from the halls of the Capitol, reporter Austin Baird knows where all the bodies...
More details emerge about AK Dem sexual assault case
Olivia Garrett, a now-former Democrat legislative staffer for Rep. Scott Kawasaki who told an audience of Alaska Democratic Party activists about a sexual assault...
Rogoff lawyers up some more
HEIRESS DOESN'T WANT HER FINANCES SCRUTINIZED
By NAOMI KLOUDA ALASKA
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
A Washington, D.C., attorney hired by Alice Rogoff in her Alaska Dispatch News bankruptcy...
Scandal: Former Alaska Democratic Party staffer alleges sexual assault
ACCUSATION MADE AGAINST REP. DEAN WESTLAKE
At a meeting dubbed "Truth and Reconciliation," Alaska Democratic Party officials met with local activists to hear their grievances...
Risky business: Anchorage channels its inner Detroit
BERKOWITZ ADMINISTRATION TO SELL OVER $68 MILLION IN PENSION-RELATED DEBT
By PETER CALTAGIRONE
COMMENTARY
This past October, the Anchorage Assembly voted in favor of Ordinance No....
EPA rep during mining SWAT raid now top state engineer with DOT
Kenneth J. Fisher, a Juneau engineer, begins work on Dec. 1 as the Alaska Department of Transportation's chief engineer, according to a memo from...
Tax reform needs 50 votes; it has Sullivan and Murkowski’s
The magic number is 50.
There are 52 Republican senators in Washington. Fifty votes are needed for the tax reform package now being debated on...
The ‘Wreckoning’: List of accused grows
On Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan joined the chorus of those calling on Rep. John Conyers to resign. Immediately. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi finally...