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Yearly Archives: 2020

Let your heart be full

Dear Readers, Happy Thanksgiving from Must Read Alaska. Wherever you are, I hope your heart is filled with gratitude for all we have in...

An American Thanksgiving reset: Freedom is worth the risk

By BERNADETTE WILSON Your chances of surviving COVID-19 are greater than 99%. Take a break from all the headlines, the press conferences and the emergency...

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...

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