Monthly Archives: November, 2020
Thanksgiving: The challenge of lockdowns in a place that lacks a sense of community
By SUZANNE DOWNING
Imagine, if you will, what it was like to sit down at a rough-hewn table in 1621, the first Thanksgiving on a...
Anchorage’s muni manager Bill Falsey resigns, running for mayor; Anna Henderson hired to run city
Bill Falsey, Anchorage's municipal manager since 2017, is resigning effective Dec. 1.
Falsey had been hired as municipal attorney in 2015 by former Mayor Ethan...
Blame-shift: Assembly chair says federal government is now responsible for saving Anchorage’s economy
The Anchorage Assembly chairman issued a press release on Wednesday afternoon, dubbed a "call to action to federal partners."
It was a request for...
Breaking: Acting mayor removes old Alaska Club building from homeless shelter plan
Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson said today that the old Alaska Club building on Tudor Road is no longer part of the municipality's plan for...
Breaking: Acting Anchorage mayor locks city down again
Anchorage Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson says that all of December will be a hunker-down time for Anchorage. Gatherings are all but prohibited.
The mayor said...
Breaking: Pebble mine permit denied by feds
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a critical environmental permit to the Pebble Partnership, owner of the proposed Pebble Mine.
“We are obviously...
Fagan: Anchorage’s Leftist Assembly is the result of mail-in elections
By DAN FAGAN
It’s as if we’re different species.
Anchorage Assembly members Christopher Constant, Kameron Perez-Verdia, Felix Rivera, Meg Zaletal, Forrest Dunbar, Pete Petersen, and...
Get it right on tax relief
By ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
The Anchorage Assembly will get another chance to get it right when it reconsiders granting personal property tax relief to small...
Sen. Reinbold apologizes for venting about masks aboard Alaska Airlines
Sen. Lora Reinbold of Eagle River has issued an apology on Facebook for having over-shared on Facebook about Alaska Airlines' enforcement of its mask...
Permanent Fund rockets to $70+ billion in bull market
The Alaska Permanent Fund hit a new high on Monday, reaching over $70.25 billion.
The fund, which is Alaska's investment fund that comes from...