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Monthly Archives: September, 2021

Bag ban: will Assembly use same criteria to suspend it as last time?

Setting up what surely will be his next fracas with the Anchorage Assembly, Mayor Dave Bronson will ask that august body to extend its...

Delta is dominant but “Mu” variant is coming

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's top Covid-19 consultant and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the Biden Administration...

Win Gruening: Population, population, population

By WIN GRUENING It is axiomatic in residential real estate sales that there are three important considerations in determining the value of a property in...

Newly hired Alaska Airlines employees will have to be Covid-19 vaccinated

New hires with Alaska Airlines will need to get the Covid-19 vaccine, the airlines said in a statement Thursday. “Our goal is to have...

Mayor Pierce to introduce resolution declaring Kenai ‘inclusive community’ where non vaccinated people are treated equally

Kenai Mayor Charlie Pierce is introducing a resolution that would declares the Kenai Peninsula an "Inclusive Community where Citizens are Treated Equally and Empowered...

Bernadette Wilson: Alaskans want to work with their civil liberties intact

By BERNADETTE WILSON To say I was frustrated as an employer is an understatement. Since May, I have been trying to fill an open position...

Bronson asking Anchorage Assembly to extend suspension of plastic bag ban

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has submitted an ordinance to the Anchorage Assembly to extend the suspension of enforcement of the purchase of plastic bags...

Governor adds Covid response to this special session, expanding telehealth and multi-state nursing licensure

oday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy expanded the third special session to include two pieces of legislation that will strengthen the state’s ongoing response to the current...

Kelly Tshibaka: Afghan refugees must be vetted before they are admitted to U.S.

By KELLY TSHIBAKA While the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan needed to end at some point, President Biden’s reckless withdrawal plan was an epic failure...

Pivot: Democrat partisans going on attack to force governor to declare emergency again

Democrat Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky of Bethel and Rep. Liz Snyder of East Anchorage signed an op-ed this week in which they posited that since...

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