Yearly Archives: 2020
Time for Eagle River’s exit
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO
How do we inspire the reconnection of our local communities to what is real?
As we, who keep our eyes peeled on...
SCOTUS: What Obama put in place for ‘Dreamers,’ Trump cannot simply dismantle
The U.S. Supreme Court today overruled the Trump Administration's efforts to discontinue the DACA program, or "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals."
DACA is a program...
Headhunting at UA: Johnsen is back, but is apologizing for his crime of white privilege
In just a few short weeks, Jim Johnsen, the president of University of Alaska, has gone from being the leader of Alaska's University System...
Keep D.C. politics out of fish and game management
By EDDIE GRASSER
Late in President Obama’s final term, the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) circumvented Congress by...
Midtown up in arms over homeless shelter proposal
Homeowners from Rogers Park to Geneva Woods in midtown Anchorage are worrying about an ordinance in front of the Anchorage Assembly that would allow...
Deadly force: Guard takes down intruder at Navy SEAL compound in Kodiak
Thirty-year-old Jayson Vinberg of Kodiak is dead after he brought a knife to a gunfight, so to speak, at a Navy SEAL training center...
Pebble Partnership announces profit-sharing for Bristol Bay residents
Pebble Partnership announced Tuesday that the company has created the Pebble Performance Dividend (PPD) to distribute a percentage of the revenue generated from the...
Fairbanks school committee pushes staff ‘decolonization, white supremacy’ training
No one ever accused the Fairbanks School District of giving students a true classical liberal arts education. The proficiency scores from the PEAKS tests...
From spit on to spoiled burritos, Trump supporters wonder about restaurants
WHERE CAN REPUBLICANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS SAFELY EAT?
The first known Alaska incident of tampering with a Trump supporter's food, when politics became poison for...
Chief Justice: No jury trials until September — at least
CRIMINALS MAY ROAM FREE WHILE COURTROOMS STAY EMPTY
The Alaska Court System, which hasn't held a jury trial since March 16, has just extended that...