Monthly Archives: October, 2021
Daily Covid count: 351 cases yesterday
After a daily count of more than 800 cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Alaska last Thursday, the Sunday new Covid count was down to...
Judge Burgess retires from U.S. District bench
Timothy Mark Burgess, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, is retiring. He was nominated to the court...
Recall is underway for officers of Retired Public Employees of Alaska association
An effort is underway to remove Stephanie Rhoades, the executive board secretary of the Retired Public Employees of Alaska, who is accused of staging...
Mark Hamilton: You can go fishing in a modern tailings pond
By MARK HAMILTON / PEBBLED SERIES
Hopefully, in reading this series, your understanding of the mining process will allow you to be aware of the...
White House ‘National Gender Strategy’ includes pushing taxpayer-funded abortion
The Biden Administration on Friday launched a so-called "National Gender Strategy," saying that no nation has achieved gender equality or "equity" but the administration...
Jab or no job: Southcentral Foundation, after firing unvaccinated employees, is giving bonuses for referrals for replacements
This is the 16th in a series of stories of people being fired from their jobs because they have declined to take the required...
Jim Crawford: Legislature is hiding money and then asking for more
By JIM CRAWFORD
The fourth Special Session of the Legislature sputters on. There are no discussions of the new facts, only repetitions of the hardened positions...
Alaska Railroad announces vaccine mandate deadline is Dec. 8
The Alaska Railroad, a State-owned corporation, has given all employees a mandate to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8, or be terminated. Many workers...
Alexander Dolitsky: Smuggled typewriters and the parallels between Soviet socialist regime and America in 2021
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY
Many of my friends during my upbringing in the former Soviet Union were students from various academic institutes, striving for knowledge, wisdom,...
Bethel city attorney posts social media pic of senator’s head on a vibrator?
Libby Bakalar, the city attorney for Bethel, appeared to have posted on social media a graphic of Sen. Lora Reinbold's head on a vibrator....