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Monthly Archives: March, 2021

Video: Fields apologizes, Rasmussen chokes back tears, Ortiz stuffs envelopes

Rep. Zack Fields has apologized to Rep. Sarah Rasmussen for sexist comments he made about her body on the House Floor on her birthday....

Is this the year for independent travel in Southeast Alaska?

By WIN GRUENING In my last column, I wrote about the prospects for any kind of a tourism recovery this year in Alaska.   The visitor industry,...

Serious accusations

By CRAIG MEDRED The story behind the story of the presumed death of former Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium CEO Andy Teuber now in the news is...

Passing: Sen. John Sackett

He served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967-1970 and the Senate from 1973-1986. A graduate of Sheldon Jackson High School, he was the...

Passing: Rep. Pat Carney

Pat Carney, who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1979-1982 and again from 1991-1994, has passed. Alaska State flags will fly at...

Anchorage eases up a bit, but masks still required as new capacity limits established

Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson today has a new, more liberal emergency order to follow: Masks are still required in public, and some restaurant capacity...

Murkowski votes yes on radical Haaland for Interior

In spite of a record of radicalism, Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico advanced out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and...

George Floyd defund police law: National standards for police actions pass House

Legislation that would ban chokeholds, eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement, and a host of other police reforms, passed the U.S. House on Wednesday,...

Dan Fagan: Alaska could stand to upgrade Senate seat in 2022 with Kelly Tshibaka

By DAN FAGAN I remember the first time I met Sen. Dan Sullivan. He walked into my studio at KFQD and instantly I knew he...

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