Monthly Archives: July, 2020
Yet again: Outside group and lawyer Kendall try to force more ballot changes in court
File this story under "No good deed goes unpunished."
The Division of Elections decided to mail out absentee ballot applications to all senior citizen...
Round 4 for Berkowitz plan
ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
After again hearing hours of mostly negative testimony on the city’s plan to use $22.5 million in CARES Act funding to purchase...
Who benefits from Alaska’s binding caucuses?
By LANCE ROBERTS
We’ve had many interesting legislative sessions in Alaska this last decade, but these last two years have really highlighted a unique situation we’re...
Lessons from literature: We have no place left to run
Doctor Zhivago is to the Cold War as Gone With the Wind is to the American Civil War. Both stories reduce epochal events to love...
Cancel culture: Alan Dershowitz as Alaska Bar Assn. speaker draws rebuke
RECALL ATTORNEY KENDALL OBJECTS, SAYS HE'LL BOYCOTT
The Alaska Bar Association is being criticized by one of its members after securing notorious attorney Alan...
Republican convention will limit attendees to delegates
According to a recent memo, the COVID-19 pandemic is throwing a wrench into plans for the Republican National convention. The host committee in Jacksonville,...
Contrite: Assembly member apologizes to rabbi for offensive comments
Assembly member Chris Constant on Wednesday took a moment of privilege to apologize to Rabbi Yosef Greenberg for offensive comments made 24 hours earlier.
In...
State Troopers’ recruitment video too hot for YouTube to handle because of 10 seconds
Ten seconds at the end of a recruitment video for the Alaska State Troopers was too politically charged for YouTube, which has rejected an...
Anchorage’s Progressive Left shows its anti-semitic side
A BLATANT DISPLAY OF DISRESPECT AT ASSEMBLY MEETING
The elderly rabbi looked puzzled for a moment. Anchorage Assembly member Chris Constant had just described a...
Sitka Assembly will move Baranov statue
The Sitka Assembly on Tuesday voted 6-1 to move the bronze statue of Alexander Baranov from the front of Harrigan Centennial Hall into the...