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Monthly Archives: August, 2021

Census factoids III: Hispanics were the winners for population growth, at 23%

While Americans who identified themselves as "White alone" decreased as a percent of the population since 2010, Hispanics and other races and race combinations...

Census factoids II: Top 25 boroughs in Alaska

Anchorage, the Mat-Su Borough, and Fairbanks North Star Borough are at the top of the population chart for Alaska, and Kenai is moving up...

Census factoids: Mat-Su population grew by over 20 percent in last 10 years

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough was one of the fastest growing areas of the state in the past 10 years. The 2020 Census counted 107,081 people...

Rep. Eastman attends Mike Lindell election security conference in South Dakota

Rep. David Eastman was a speaker Wednesday at a Mike Lindell's (My Pillow) Cyber Symposium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, an event that ends...

Soldotna City Council reinstates mask mandate for public buildings

The Soldotna City Council has passed a resolution requiring face masks be worn in public indoor areas of city-owned buildings whenever the Central Kenai...

Tim Barto: Knik’s field of broken dreams

By TIM BARTO In the movie “Field of Dreams,” baseball-impassioned Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) is on a mission that takes him from Iowa...

Judge says rural energy fund is protected, cannot be swept into budget reserve fund

An Anchorage Superior Court judge today ruled against Gov. Mike Dunleavy, saying that the Power Cost Equalization Fund is a special fund that cannot...

Mayor Edna DeVries gets award, standing ovation at Palmer City Council meeting

The Palmer City Council meeting was more packed than usual Tuesday night. A small contingent of Democrats had decided to make a stand and...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy: The temptation of tyranny is what the Founders warned us about. Will we heed their warning?

By GOV. MIKE DUNLEAVY “It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected,” wrote an...

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