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Yearly Archives: 2019

The Donnybrook ahead: Education funding for coming school year

Are pink slips ahead for teachers this summer? Maybe. Gov. Michael Dunleavy has put the House and Senate on notice about education funding: He said...

Two perish in Napakiak jail fire

TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES OF RURAL PUBLIC SAFETY A fire allegedly set by an inmate in the Napakiak jail has killed two inmates and injured a...

Film performed entirely in Haida, a language with 14 speakers

Edge of the Knife is a Northwest Coast Haida historical drama performed entirely in the Haida language, with English subtitles. Haida is thought to have...

University warning of data breach over a year later

SOMEONE HACKED THE EMAIL SYSTEM The University of Alaska is notifying potentially affected students and others after an investigation into a data privacy incident revealed...

Things you can send through the TSA checkpoint: Moose poop

TSA has made it official: You may not be able to bring that bottle of water or 16-ounce macchiato through the TSA checkpoints, but...

The Left’s big lie, and a complicit media

THE ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” – Joseph Goebbels Joe...

MRAK Almanac: Of halibut and Whole Foods, blessing of the fleet

Photo: The halibut schooner "Sitka" in front of the Juneau Cold Storage in May of 1959. Alaska State Library item ASL-MS10-4-06-007-542 The commercial halibut fleet is...

That time when Ivy Spohnholz lectured on taking ‘responsibility’

HER FLOOR SPEECH CONDEMNING DAVID EASTMAN IS ONE FOR THE AGES In light of House Speaker Bryce Edgmon refusing to allow a "Sense of the...

AG Kevin Clarkson has emergency surgery

According to the spokeswoman for the Department of Law, Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson is recovering from surgery in Seattle after a heart attack...

It’s a lawyer thing: Justin Schneider’s legal guy used to defend victims

(Editor's note: This is the kind of story that can make an everyday Alaskan hopping mad. But hold onto your rage and just try...

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