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Monthly Archives: July, 2021

Wasilla City Council to vote on whether to oppose Mat-Su Borough proposed sales tax

The Wasilla City Council will on July 29 take up a resolution that opposes a proposed Matanuska-Susitna Borough ordinance that would place a 1.5...

Democrats advance legislation requiring women to sign up for military draft

The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that would require women to register for the military...

Just in time for special session, Juneau starts up mask mandates, crowd limits again

Starting Friday, the City and Borough of Juneau is reinstating 50 percent capacity limits at bars and gymnasiums. Indoor gatherings are once again...

Eco-terrorist Bureau of Land Management nominee gets through key committee vote

Radical eco-leftist Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination to run the Bureau of Land Management split the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, with a 10-10 vote...

PFD stalled out? Legislative working group will meet every day until special session, with some public testimony scheduled

The legislative working group tasked with presenting a long-term solution to the state's fiscal imbalance has met a few times, but has little to...

Former acting Anchorage mayor left the new mayor a vaccine- and social media-focused Muni website. It’s now changing fast.

As one of her parting gifts to the new mayor, former acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson had the municipality's website remodeled, to put the focus...

Why in the world do librarians need to have master’s degrees in library science?

On Saturday, a drug-addled man at the Anchorage Loussac Library was observed overdosed on heroin in the first-floor bathroom. He had pills and marijuana...

Sen. Sullivan to Biden-Blinken: ‘Don’t make a mockery of actual human rights atrocities’

“This invitation to investigate our own country under the authority of this Council is an insult to the American people and a mockery of...

Three weeks away: School start dates around the state

It's back-to-school time, with the first start date in Alaska just 20 days away. Here are some of the start dates from around...

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