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Yearly Archives: 2019

Senate passes its version of the budget

The Alaska Senate today passed its version of the State's 2020 operating budget, with all senators except Juneau's Jesse Kiehl voting for it. For...

Democrat majority spurns governor’s crime bills

PUBLIC TESTIMONY AT 5 PM The House Democrat-led majority has decided to move ahead with Rep. Matt Claman's watered-down crime package, HB 145, which removes...

Tammie’s back with Dems

After less than 24 hours of rumors and uncertainty, Rep. Tammie Wilson has struck a truce and is back with the Democrat-led majority in...

MTA to build fiber optic cable to Canada, link to Lower 48

STATE IS GOING TO BE MORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS WITH HIGHER SPEEDS Today there’s no terrestrial fiber-optic connection from Alaska to Canada or the Lower...

Breaking: Tammie Wilson walks out on Democrat caucus

WILL REPUBLICANS LET HER BACK IN? Three independent sources confirmed Tuesday that Rep. Tammie Wilson, a North Pole Republican, has left the Democrat-led caucus...

MRAK Almanac: May Day! May Day!

May 1, 1919: 100 years ago today Cleveland, Ohio witnessed violent demonstrations organized by Socialist leader Charles Ruthenberg, with unionists, socialists, communists, and anarchists to protest...

Mark Begich’s lucrative port contract

Mark Begich was mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009, when the most critical design and funding decisions were made about the expansion of...

Archbishop Etienne to succeed as Archbishop of Seattle

Anchorage Archbishop Paul Etienne was named the new coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle. Etienne will eventually succeed Archbishop Peter Sartain as the...

Go home, Randy, you’re drunk

(Editor's Note: Randy Mann sent Must Read Alaska a note saying he understands what he did was wrong and he has since deleted his...

This job will be competitive

Looking for a job? Just when you thought the State was out of money comes a bureaucrat position with a boring title (Financial Registration...

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