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Yearly Archives: 2019

Public broadcasting, university advertising to keep funding

COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION IS NOW IN SESSION Both Alaska Public Media and the University of Alaska have advertising pushes underway to preserve their state...

Kulis Hangar One added to National Historic Registry

CELEBRATION BARBECUE SATURDAY 2-4 PM The legendary Air National Guard base on the far side of the Ted Stevens International Airport has been added to...

What’s up with the jets? Northern Edge 19

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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,...

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