Yearly Archives: 2020
Kenai Peninsula parents call for families to strike until schools open up for students
In an act of civil disobedience, some Kenai parents are removing their students from the Kenai Peninsula Schools until the school district opens for...
Judge denies open meetings group their injunction on Assembly actions
Alaskans for Open Meetings will likely ratchet up their complaint to the Alaska Supreme Court, now that Superior Court Judge Una Gandbhir has told...
Vaccine to arrive Monday; 35,000 doses at once
The Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is expected to arrive in all 50 states on Monday, according to Gen. Gus Perna, chief operating officer of...
Ketchikan mayor: Civil rights and privacy must prevail with vaccines
A draft letter by Ketchikan Borough mayor seeks to assure the public that their civil rights will be respected, and that any use of...
Judicial conduct commission asks for conversation with supremes over ‘systemic racism’ confessional letter
A "systemic racism" letter penned by and signed by the Alaska Supreme Court and posted on its State of Alaska website in early June...
Tom Williams: Leadership and integrity, or smoke and mirrors on Cascade Point?
By TOM WILLIAMS
Last May I was a signatory to a letter to Gov. Mike Dunleavy asking the governor to direct the Department of Transportation...
Dunleavy says we need the full dividend for economic stabilization in Alaska
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is proposing an economic stabilization dividend, which would be the rest of the 2020 Permanent Fund dividend of approximately $1,900, a...
State revenue forecast leaves huge budget gap
The Department of Revenue's Fall 2020 Revenue Sources Book today forecasted that funding from the Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve account will be $1.6 billion in this...
Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit
The lawsuit by the Texas Attorney General against four states' election results has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court will not...
Art Chance: Lawyers, logic, and betting on the Supreme Court decision
By ART CHANCE
I’ve been reading the Left’s frothing about the Texas election lawsuit.
One published on an NBC News site is an example of just...