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Yearly Archives: 2019

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...

Dunleavy is making the hard decisions

LET'S TRY THE DUNLEAVY APPROACH: SPEND WHAT WE HAVE MORE EFFICIENTLY By ANN BROWN GUEST CONTRIBUTOR Although it is not unusual for political adversaries to call each...

MRAK Almanac: Last chance for Denali Road Lottery

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...

Honoring of war dead looks different south of the Mason-Dixon Line

By ART CHANCE SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR I didn’t grow up honoring Memorial Day on the last Monday of May. In the South of the 1950s and 1960s, Memorial...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Alaska this week

U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is in Alaska this week to speak to leaders around the state regarding public safety and justice issues. He...

Supreme Court rules against Arctic Man attendee who mouthed off

The U.S. Supreme Court said today that Russell Bartlett's First Amendment rights were not violated and that his arrest was not a retaliatory action...

Don Young pays respects in Normandy

VISITS AMERICAN CEMETERY IN ADVANCE OF 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY Congressman Don Young visited the American Cemetery in Normandy, France over the Memorial Day weekend...

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