Monthly Archives: June, 2021
Jim Crawford: Simple math on the PFD
By JIM CRAWFORD
We hear a constant barrage from folks who want to decrease the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend and reinstate the personal income tax.
With...
Dan Sullivan: Another Permanent Fund plan
By DAN SULLIVAN
As the State Legislature grapples with how to deal with the future of the Permanent Fund, I propose a solution that is...
High court favors Alaska Native Corps getting CARES Act funds
In a case that pitted Lower 48 Native American tribes against Alaska Native corporations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the corporations, saying they will...
Fake news alert: Operative Scott Kendall tries to shame governor for being out of state, but his troll work comes up short
Recall Dunleavy lawyer Scott Kendall went on Twitter today to tell the world what a shame it is that Gov. Mike Dunleavy is in...
Win Gruening: Public sector unions vs. the First Amendment
By WIN GRUENING
In 1962, President John Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, paving the way for federal workers to organize and bargain collectively.
Few knew then...
Engineering marvel: Two Alaska fast ferries head to Spain on ‘the mother of all ships’
The fast ferries MV Fairweather and MV Chenega were towed in Ketchikan today to be loaded onto a massive submergible freighter, where they will be transported...
Alaska teachers among those who signed pledge that no law will stop them from teaching Critical Race Theory
The Zinn Education Project has a pledge online that it hopes teachers will sign. It states that the signers will violate the law, if...
Dance with the devil? Critics pan the infrastructure package ‘Biden poison pill’
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal picked apart the infrastructure bill that was forged by the Gang of 10 from the Senate...
The Mental Health Budget, agreed on nearly unanimously, remains locked in Legislature as time runs out on July 1 shutdown
A large portion of Alaska's Operating Budget is the Mental Health Budget, which is passed separately and sailed without controversy through Conference Committee this...
Mark Hamilton: The history of hysteria
By MARK HAMILTON
(Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.)
I could...