Monthly Archives: June, 2021
Alaska oil prices edge over $75
Alaska North Slope crude popped up over $75 a barrel last week, a price not seen since October, 2014, when prices were coming down...
Alaska Life Hack: Alaska Airlines will boost flights to NYC, but won’t fly there from LAX
Alaska Airlines is reorganizing its routes to better compete. The company will be offering 25 daily nonstop flights from West Coast cities to New...
Getting up with fleas
By ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
We note with more than a passing interest Democratic Rep. Geran Tarr’s decrying the bullying tactics used by her caucus in...
Former Alaska U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel passes
Former Alaska U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel died on Saturday at the age of 91, in Seaside, Calif. The cause of his death was myeloma....
Dimitri Lanahan, pointed paintball gun at police, was on the lam from halfway house
The 23-year-old man shot dead by Alaska State Troopers on Friday was on the lam from the Cordova Center in Anchorage and a warrant...
Alaska Lemonade Day — it’s a thing in the 49th State
Who knew? Alaska has an Alaska Lemonade Day, as demonstrated by Macie Miller, one busy entrepreneur today in Wasilla. Miller is selling the favorite...
Ted Cruz, Susan Collins, and other senators file bill to end mask mandates on airlines
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced a Senate...
Unanimous: District 12 Republicans endorse Tshibaka for Senate, along with second Mat-Su women’s club
Alaska Republican Party District 12 has endorsed Kelly Tshibaka for U.S. Senate. The vote was taken Thursday night and was unanimous, according to people...
Dan Fagan: When it comes to the PFD, they fixed what wasn’t broken
By DAN FAGAN
If Legislators followed the law and paid the 2021 Permanent Fund dividend based on the statutory formula that is on the books,...
Who has Trump endorsed besides Tshibaka? He’s now endorsing GOP chair candidates
Former President Donald Trump has not yet announced a trip to Alaska, but he's now on the road, making the rounds in the country's...