Monthly Archives: March, 2018
Alaska House in disarray, Edgmon tries to answer
The budget solution doesn't stop with Speaker Bryce Edgmon.
In an odd press conference today, Edgmon appeared alone, without any of his House majority colleagues,...
Daily ballot count: 30,749 Anchorage residents have voted
GET YOUR BALLOT DROP BOX LOCATION HERE
As of 7 pm on Tuesday, the Anchorage election office had logged 30,749 ballots received of a possible...
Anchorage speaks: 96.5 percent say Berkowitz wasn’t honest on sanctuary city
UPDATE: SURVEY CLOSED AT 11 AM MARCH 29.
Here are the results:
You read about how Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz implored immigration lawyers to help him...
What? Seven days to go and only 26,000 ballots?
MUST READ ALASKA VOTERS - GET YOUR BALLOTS IN
The first mail-in election in Anchorage is a nail biter for candidates, but voters have not...
Go big money: Permanent Fund dividend formula restored
FORTY DIFFERENT REASONS FOR VOTING IT UP OR DOWN
The Alaska House on Monday voted to fund this year's Alaska Permanent Fund dividend at $2,700.
If...
The five steps to a gun-free society
IT'S EASY: FIRST CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION, THEN ENFORCE
March for Our Lives tapped into a fear of violent death, something no student should have to...
Divining data from the Anchorage mail-in election
NO EXCUSE FOR NOT VOTING, UNLESS YOU'RE 100
Rebecca Logan, the leading conservative candidate for Anchorage mayor, said she talked to a 100-year-old man over...
Dittman poll shows Dunleavy over Walker
A Dittman Research poll conducted between Feb. 26 and March 4 of 809 Alaskans asked several questions about the 2018 election for governor, and...
China tariff retaliation won’t affect Alaska salmon — yet
COULD AK-CHINA NATURAL GAS DEAL MAKE SEAFOOD A FUTURE TARGET?
Alaska seafood has escaped the growing trade war with China, for now.
Friday's announcement that China...
Senate Democrats stage walk out rather than vote on spending cap
Senate Democrats tried to weaken a key spending cap bill that was up for a vote on Friday, and when that didn't work, they...