Yearly Archives: 2019
MRAK Almanac: Dunleavy town hall on Facebook, Pacific Island Fest
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...
Layoff notice decision time: This could end up in court
By ART CHANCE
SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
Here, hold my beer and watch this! This is the kind of stuff that made me a high-powered State official for...
HB 1005 effectively dead
DIVIDEND CALCULATION REMAKE WAS TOO MUCH FOR ALASKANS
The Alaska Legislature is mostly cleared out of the Capitol, and Must Read Alaska has learned that...
John Wood appointed to Board of Fisheries
THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Attorney and fly-fishing enthusiast John Wood of Willow has been appointed to the vacancy on the board of...
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...