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Monthly Archives: May, 2021

Breaking: Permanent Fund hits $80 billion

The Alaska Permanent Fund hit $80 billion today, double what it was 10 years ago. On Feb. 28, 1977, the Permanent Fund received its first...

Jan. 6 commission fails in Senate

Democrats were unable to get the votes needed to set up a special commission to investigate the Jan. 6 surge into the U.S. Capitol...

Passing: Al Kookesh, Southeast Tlingit elder

JUNEAU - Former State Sen. Albert Matthew Kookesh, Jr. has passed after a long illness. Born in Nov. 24, 1948 in Juneau, he attended Angoon...

Rick Whitbeck: Biden telling America’s Miners they matter less than Canadians, Australians

By RICK WHITBECK You’d think the Covid-19’s supply chain issues might have been a wake-up call to America. You remember it, right?  Shortages of hand sanitizer. ...

Win Gruening: We pay, they spend, as Juneau Assembly rejects property tax relief

By WIN GRUENING In a recent City and Borough of Juneau Finance Committee meeting, a majority of Assembly members rebuffed an attempt to provide tax...

Art Chance: When you wish upon a star

By ART CHANCEJuneau is a nice place to live if you are among the upper levels of the local, state, and federal government and...

Kristie Babcock: Only rural person of color denied opportunity by Chief Justice Bolger

By KRISTIE BABCOCK Chief Justice Joel Bolger, like many lawyers, is good with words, but the words have no real meaning. This is the lesson I...

What is wrong with these people?

ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET The Anchorage Assembly’s 8-2 vote this week to change local law to force women’s shelters to accept men who say they are...

Surprise concession: Biden Administration defends Willow project in court

Although pushed hard by environmentalists and his own Department of Interior Secretary to go the other way, the Biden administration is defending the ConocoPhillips...

Jewish Museum, Mad Myrna’s target by hate as swastika stickers show up on buildings

Anchorage Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person or persons responsible for placing swastika stickers on two buildings in Anchorage....

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