Monthly Archives: April, 2021
Can companies force workers to get Covid vaccine as a condition of employment?
The memo from Alaska Industrial Hardware makes it clear: All employees shall be vaccinated against Covid-19 by August. Or else.
Alaska Industrial Hardware is a...
Bronson increases lead, now up over 1,200 over Dunbar for Anchorage mayor
More ballots were counted on Monday, increasing the lead of Dave Bronson to nearly 2 percentage points above Forrest Dunbar. As of 5 pm,...
Alaskan named to Biden post advising on Alaska issues
A former Obama Administration official has been named to a top post in the Biden Administration, where she will shape policy for Alaska.
Raina Thiele...
Mayor moves goalposts again: Now, it’s 70% vaccination rate to lift city mandates
Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson issued another emergency order today, easing some of her restrictions on Anchorage residents' movement and behavior.
Emergency Order 20, which...
Tshibaka tours Kenai, filling up rooms and radio airwaves with jobs-economy message
Kelly Tshibaka's campaign for U.S. Senate had booked a room for 30 people at Land's End Resort in Homer, the last stop on her...
Pebbled: Environmental industry has fear-mongering down to an art
By MARK HAMILTON
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.)
I’m not...
For Andrew Halcro, a crowning achievement is the boarding up of downtown Anchorage
By SUZANNE DOWNING
“Hasty endings always leave things unsaid,” according to Andrew Halcro, who went on in his guest column in the Anchorage Daily News...
Anchorage police decline to endorse Dunbar for mayor
After severals days of internal debate, the Anchorage Police Department Employee Association walked away from endorsing Forrest Dunbar for mayor.
In the end, the membership...
Art Chance: 50 years, an oil boom, and how we broke the Alaska economy
By ART CHANCE
My biological daughter will turn 50 in a few weeks. Her very pregnant mother and I were living in her childhood bedroom in...
Boutin: Snow machines on side roads work fine in New Hampshire, so why not here?
By TOMAS BOUTIN
The Governor Dunleavy Administration has a proposal to allow people to use off-road and utility vehicles on specific highways.
Just over three years...