Monthly Archives: February, 2021
Patkotak gets nod to become Speaker Pro Tem
Rep. Josiah Patkotak (Undeclared-Utqiaġvik) was appointed Speaker Pro Tem of the Alaska House of Representatives.
Patkotak, who represents House District 40, will take the gavel...
Maybe it’s time
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is pushing for construction of a $6 billion gas line between Point Thomson and Fairbanks to bring natural gas to Alaska’s...
Return of the radicals: New deputy solicitor at Interior fought to weaken Alaska voting laws
Natalie Landreth, newly named deputy solicitor for land at the Department of Interior, is a resident of Alaska, where she has been a litigant...
Shame game II: Forrest Dunbar asks ‘What is our equivalent’ of Must Read Alaska?
Among the trove of emails between the deeply progressive Assemblymen Forrest Dunbar and Chris Constant, all retrieved through a painstaking public records requests, is...
Senate passes resolution allowing virtual meetings
MUST PASS HOUSE, HOWEVER
If there's an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Alaska Legislature, how will the budget get passed?
The Alaska Senate today unanimously...
Two file lawsuit over Quinn-Davidson’s vacant Assembly seat
Dustin Darden and Nial Williams, Anchorage residents and community activists, have filed a lawsuit against the Anchorage Municipality because the city has not held...
‘Shame’ game: Dunbar and Constant admit they strong-armed pastors into supporting vagrant plan
Newly released emails between Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar and Assemblyman Chris Constant show that last summer the two were shaming church leaders into supporting former...
Spotted: A Dunbar beer tax
The owner of the LaMex Restaurant in Anchorage evidently wants patrons to know that the new 5% tax on alcohol sales, which started Feb....
Biden continues filling out Interior Dept. with Democrat campaign operatives, environmental extremists
The Department of the Interior announced additional members in leadership who will work to address the Biden climate and nature crises agenda and "advance...
Listicle: Who dropped from muni races by deadline?
School Board Seat G saw two candidates drop by the time the deadline had passed on Tuesday: Pierce Blewett and Larry Daugherty. That leaves...