Yearly Archives: 2019
Letter to the editor: Read ‘Rules for Radicals’
Letter to the editor:
This will be short and direct. I’m done trading barbs with the Cole Brothers. I just consider the source and consider...
Crime bill strengthened in Senate
The Alaska Senate is working through its version of House Bill 49, the roll-back of the much-maligned SB 91, which has been blamed for...
‘Shameful narrative’ about Native students disputed by think tank
NATIVE STUDENTS ARE NOT DRAGGING DOWN ALASKA'S TEST SCORES
The Alaska Policy Forum, a public policy group based in Anchorage, published a series of charts...
MRAK Almanac: Game of Thrones edition
Monday is the 119th day of the legislative session. Winter is coming.
May 13-17: Infrastructure Week. Labor unions and public works agencies are hosting events...
Bill Williams: May 21, 1943 – May 12, 2019
Former Rep. Bill Williams, who rose from being a council member in the City of Saxman to being the Co-Chair of House Finance, died...
Couldn’t make the Valdez air show? Watch it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6ABfdiiP0
Now is the time to limit state spending
By KATI CAPOZZI, PRESIDENT
ALASKA STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
As Alaskans, we face these fiscally uncertain times together.
With the private sector’s success inextricably linked to how the...
All watered down
By THE ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
You have to wonder sometimes what lawmakers in Juneau possibly could be thinking.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy in February offered a tough...
Alaskans still guarded about economy, survey shows
A Dittman Research survey done for the Alaska Chamber of Commerce shows that Alaskans are somewhat split down the middle on their views of...
REAL ID Alaska: Here’s how to do it like a pro
TALES FROM THE DMV
500 days. That's how many days are left before all Americans boarding a commercial aircraft, or accessing a federal facility such as...