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Yearly Archives: 2019

Alaska’s tobacco minimum age could be 21, if Trump signs spending bill Friday

BILL REPEALS CADILLAC TAX FROM ALASKA HEALTH INSURANCE The minimum age to buy tobacco products will go from 19 to 21 in Alaska and several...

Goldman Sachs redlines Alaska and Trump, (but was OK with funding Hillary?)

A MAJOR FLIP-FLOP ON ARCTIC OIL AND GAS INVESTMENT It was just 18 months ago that former Gov. Bill Walker announced he had struck an...

Ranked choice voting? Why progressives want it here

By ANN BROWN The day before the Independence Day holiday last summer, local progressives filed a petition ironically named “Alaskans for Better Elections,” which would destroy the...

Brighter side of warm winter: Lower heating bills

By CRAIG MEDRED After an unusually warm fall, Alaska’s urban core is heading into the winter season looking wholly unseasonable, but there could be a...

Grow up: Why is the State responsible for serving Real ID services off the grid?

ANALYSIS: NOT THE STATE'S JOB TO SPOON-FEED BUSH ALASKA The 30 DMV offices around Alaska are busy issuing Real IDs to Alaskans who come through...

Breaking: Obamacare individual mandate struck down by appeals court

The U.S. Fifth District Court of Appeals, based in Florida, has struck down the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, also known as...

Trump endorses Sullivan

President Donald Trump tweeted out his endorsement of Sen. Dan Sullivan on Tuesday. Sullivan has served Alaska in Washington, D.C. since upsetting former Sen....

Trump gives federal workers Dec. 24 off, with pay

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order today to give federal workers a day off -- with pay -- on Christmas Eve. That means...

Dunleavy continues outreach at White House and media

CNBC, FOX, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND MEETING WITH PRESIDENT Gov. Michael Dunleavy is once again on an ambassadorial tour for Alaska, and is in Washington,...

Wayback machine: Democrats’ impeachment quotes that didn’t age well

House Democrats didn't always express their sheer determination to impeach President Donald J. Trump. Some quotes from the past show that once upon a...

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