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Yearly Archives: 2018

First the restrooms, now the prayer room

INDECENT EXPOSER PROWLING WOMEN A video and photo circulating on Facebook capture the image of a man in the Fifth Avenue Mall downtown on Sunday,...

Bail or jail? Help legislators grow a spine on crime

An excerpt from the Must Read Alaska Monday Newsletter (subscribe on the right side of the page. It's free): Must Read Alaska readers make a difference....

Pick. Click. Give. program sees another drop in charitable donations

The Permanent Fund dividend application deadline was March 31. An early look shows Alaskans are giving less through the Pick. Click. Give. program than they...

Jonesville: Rauscher bill finally heard, passed House

It was beginning to look like the House majority would never allow a vote on creating a safer Jonesville. The Jonesville Public Use Area...

Shifting attitudes make Juneau access road inevitable

By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR The results of a recent poll commissioned by First Things First Alaska Foundation in partnership with the City and Borough...

Crime bill pressure hits boiling point in Senate Judiciary

HOW SEN. COSTELLO WON A BATTLE BUT... The men and women of the Alaska Legislature are feeling the heat on crime, but some are feeling...

Propositions drove voters more than mayoral race

WELL-HEELED ACLU SPENT $25 PER 'NO' VOTE ON BATHROOM BILL More Anchorage voters marked yes or no on "the bathroom bill" question than for all...

Government comrades go after oil workers again

COMMENTARY House Democrats introduced their second job-jacking tax increase of the session, HB 411.  HB 411 is a complete overhaul of HB 111, which was supposed...

Bill allows you to donate your PFD to the government

PICK, CLICK, GIVE IT ALL BACK The Alaska Senate has unanimously passed a bill to give Alaskans the option of donating some or all of...

Governor’s chief of staff orders Senate to restore funding. ‘Now.’

Borrowing a page from President Trump's playbook, Gov. Bill Walker's Chief of Staff Scott Kendall took to Twitter on Thursday to upbraid the Senate...

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