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What’s up with the jets? Northern Edge 19

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Aircraft have been arriving all week at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in advance of the the military exercise known as Northern Edge 2019, May 13...

MRAK Almanac: Astronomy Day, and that fateful May of 1939

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Welcome to the MRAK Almanac, where it's a mixed bag of amazing political, historical, cultural, and random acts of Alaskana you won't find anywhere...

Goodnight, Socialist Dermot Cole, wherever you are

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(Editor's note: This column ran in the Fairbanks NewsMiner after an especially lively exchange between the Brothers Cole (Dermot and Terrence) and the author....

‘Schneider loophole’ fix heads to governor’s desk

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FORMER JUDGE MICHAEL COREY SPEAKS: 'GLAD THE LAW WAS CHANGED' The Alaska Legislature has passed House Bill 14, closing the loophole that allowed an Anchorage...

Cannabis cafes: Yes or no? Anchorage debates

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The Anchorage Assembly is considering on-site consumption of marijuana, places where people can buy pot and use it on the premises. Two work sessions...

HB 49 could have made marital rape a crime … but didn’t

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Rep. Sara Rasmussen is aghast. The provision in House Bill 49 that would have removed marriage as a defense against rape was stripped out by...

Tesla’s copper shortage highlights eco-movement’s real threat

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By RICK WHITBECK GUEST COLUMNIST Tesla, the world’s current “it” auto manufacturer, is concerned. Their American-made electric vehicles, or EVs, require steady supplies of mined materials: lithium,...

Free macarons, you say? Sweet local deal from Facebook

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Facebook has discovered an Anchorage bakery already known by locals as a macaron mecca. But with the help of the social media giant, Sweet Caribou...

Attorney General official opinion: Legislature must fund education

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Education funding is heating up at the Alaska Capitol. Alaska's Attorney General Kevin Clarkson drafted an official opinion that says although the Legislature may have...
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