Monthly Archives: December, 2021
Anchorage Assembly to take testimony, then vote on restricting election observers from watching ballot counting
The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday will take public testimony and will vote on a rewrite of Title 28 of Municipal code, putting severe restrictions...
School board to outsource interviews for new superintendent to Leadership Anchorage
School Board President Margo Bellamy told a community council group that the board will probably settle on a new superintendent by April.
Bellamy told the...
School board adjusting policy to prevent members from criticizing board decisions
At the Anchorage School Board meeting on Monday, a revised school board policy is set to be voted on that may continue to blunt...
Masks in schools? Sampling of letters received by school board on topic of superintendent’s mask removal decision
The Anchorage School Board meets Monday in executive session at 4 pm, and in regular open session at 6 pm. The issue of the...
Fritz Pettyjohn: What are we going to do with all that money?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN
In 1969, when Alaskans realized how much oil was in Prudhoe Bay, people quickly understood the implications. A formerly cash starved state...
Mark Hamilton: Don’t let Alaska get ‘Pebbled’ again
By MARK HAMILTON
Something happened.
I’m not going to speculate exactly what happened.
Representing Pebble mine for three years, I spent far too much time dealing...
AmericaFest report: Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will she get vaccinated
At the conservative AmericaFest mega-convention in Phoenix, Arizona, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on Sunday she will not get vaccinated for Covid-19, and...
After promising voters no rate increase after sale of ML&P, Chugach Electric starts rate hike process; comment period ends soon
It's a Covid thing. Evidently Covid hit Chugach Electric hard, the utility said. Other utilities? Not so much.
Chugach Electric filed a rate decoupling request...
Lucas Smith: Marxism makes inroads in schools under guise of mask ‘science’
The Municipality of Anchorage Assembly, the Anchorage School Board, and the Alaska Coalition of BIPOC Educators are an ideal match for the American Academy...
Welcome home planned for Miss America Emma Broyles at Anchorage airport at 2:30 pm Sunday
Alaskans are invited to be at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport at 2:30 pm on Sunday to welcome home Miss Alaska / Miss...