Yearly Archives: 2020
COVID-19 update: 2 cases
Two cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in Alaska in the past 24 hours for a total of 337 cases of the coronavirus. Some 209...
Alaska goes its own way to freeze out COVID-19
By PHILIP WEGMANN
The layover would last five hours. Some cried. Most cheered.
Kalitta Air 4371, with service to March Air Reserve Base in California, landed...
Will the Senate president release CARES funds to communities soon?
GIESSEL'S POWER PLAY WITH THE GOVERNOR
The State of Alaska has received the $1.25 billion in CARES Act money. Now comes the question about how...
Eielson welcomes first two of dozens of F-35 fighter jets
DELEGATION CREDITS TIGER TEAM, MAYORS, LOCAL LEADERS
Two F-35A Lightning II fighter jets arrived in their new home in Alaska on Tuesday. Over the next...
State releases details on relaxed business mandates
The State of Alaska issued another health mandate today. This mandate supersedes several other mandates that shut down commerce across the state of Alaska,...
Pick priorities, not winners and losers, to plug Juneau’s budget gap
By WIN GRUENING
Alaskans are beginning to realize the true dimensions of the economic challenges we face in recovering from this pandemic. Initially, federal, state,...
COVID-19 update: 6 cases in three communities
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services today announced six new cases of COVID-19 in three Alaska communities – Anchorage (4), Wasilla (1) and Juneau...
Rolling protest through Anchorage draws hundreds
There may have been hundreds or there may have been over 1,000 people who took part in an Anchorage act of civil disobedience, as...
Juneau says the joke’s on you
Folks at the Juneau Parks and Recreation Department wants you to lighten up, so they've installed a Joke-a-Day phone line.
People who need to...
Fifth Anniversary week for ‘mighty’ Must Read Alaska
WHEREBY WE REVEAL OUR STATS
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Must Read Alaska, which started as a Monday political newsletter to about 200...