Monthly Archives: May, 2019
Breaking: Dunleavy Administration makes slashing victim whole on his PFD
The convoluted case of a 26-year-old man, Stephen Hansell, who had been a survivor of a mad slasher at Mountain View Elementary School in...
BP, Exxon back in Alaska LNG project
The Dunleavy administration has announced that BP and ExxonMobil are ready to invest in the Alaska gasline project again.
At the Alaska Oil and Gas...
Tlingit history, culture thrive as Hoonah expands as destination
By WIN GRUENING
SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
“Yesterday brought word that the Hoonah Packing Company at Hoonah packed 115,000 cases of fish.”
- Alaska Daily Empire, August 15, 1918
That...
MRAK Almanac: Dunleavy town hall on Facebook, Pacific Island Fest
The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested in...
Layoff notice decision time: This could end up in court
By ART CHANCE
SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
Here, hold my beer and watch this! This is the kind of stuff that made me a high-powered State official for...
HB 1005 effectively dead
DIVIDEND CALCULATION REMAKE WAS TOO MUCH FOR ALASKANS
The Alaska Legislature is mostly cleared out of the Capitol, and Must Read Alaska has learned that...
John Wood appointed to Board of Fisheries
THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Attorney and fly-fishing enthusiast John Wood of Willow has been appointed to the vacancy on the board of...
Dueling memos to state employees: When do layoff notices come?
LEGISLATURE HAS NOT PASSED BUDGET, GONE HOME FOR FIVE DAYS
The Dunleavy Administration sent a memo to state employees Wednesday, explaining that if the Legislature...
An important question
ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
As with almost anything of importance in Alaska, the question of whether it is constitutional for the Legislature to forward-fund K-12 education...
Sandblasted: Fishing woman gets tangled in web of law and media bias
Brannon Finney was reading the news reports and the U.S. Justice Department account of the careless fisherwoman who dumped sand overboard and admitted to...