Monthly Archives: October, 2020
Giessel, for second time, uses official state newsletter to campaign against candidates
For the second time in two weeks, Sen. Cathy Giessel has used her official letterhead at the Alaska Legislature, where she serves as Senate...
RIP: Rep. Chuck Sassara
Chuck Sassara, who served in the Alaska State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970, has passed.
Sassara and his wife Ann came to Alaska...
Alaskans for Open Meetings
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Liar? LaFrance says she opposes recall of Dunleavy, but she signed petition
Suzanne LaFrance, the Democrat nominee for House District 28, told public broadcasting viewers on Wednesday night that she opposes the recall of Gov. Mike...
Gross attack: Al calls Sen. Sullivan a coward for not answering CNN’s ‘gotcha question’
Sen. Dan Sullivan, a colonel in the U.S. Marines Reserve who served in Afghanistan, was in the Senate subway when a CNN reporter approached...
Walker effect: Nearly a third of Alaskans on Medicaid
By DAN FAGAN
How bad was former Gov. Bill Walker for the state of Alaska? Let me count the ways. He was certainly one of...
Campbell: Assembly usurps executive powers on policing as a step to micro-managing
By CRAIG CAMPBELL
In 1993 West Anchorage elected a moderate Democrat to the Anchorage Assembly. He was a card-carrying union guy, working in the construction industry,...