Yearly Archives: 2021

Anchorage budgeted government positions increased by over 100 under Mayor Berkowitz

Suzanne Downing - July 27, 2021 25

Anchorage municipal government grew dramatically in actual numbers of employees budgeted during the six years of the Berkowitz-Quinn-Davidson administrations. In 2015, the municipality had 2,266...

Anchorage epidemiologist calls it quits

Suzanne Downing - July 27, 2021 30

Anchorage’s official epidemiologist, Dr. Janet Johnston, has left the municipality to become senior epidemiologist with the liver disease and hepatitis program at ANTHC, starting...

Murkowski bill boosts penalties for ‘smash-and-grab’ from gun dealers

Suzanne Downing - July 27, 2021 16

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and 20 Republican Senate colleagues, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have introduced the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2021...

CDC flips, wants the vaccinated wearing masks too, now

Suzanne Downing - July 27, 2021 36

In another hairpin turn in the road of Covid-19 pandemic management, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that everyone in areas...

Arctic Lightning Air Show at Eielson brings Blue Angels back to Alaska

Suzanne Downing - July 27, 2021 2

That odd-looking warbird that landed in Juneau Monday? It was a circa 1948 Ace Maker T-33 "Shooting Star," the first operational jet fighter and...

Poll: Republican parents say they’d pull kids from schools that teach Critical Race Theory

Suzanne Downing - July 26, 2021 26

In a national poll on a variety of current events, Americans were asked: How should parents who oppose Critical Race Theory in public schools...

Lydia Jacoby wins Gold in Tokyo

Suzanne Downing - July 26, 2021 13

Lydia Jacoby of Seward, Alaska won an Olympic gold medal Monday in the 100-meter breaststroke competition at the International Olympics Game in Tokyo, Japan....

License to fish II: There’s no such thing as a one-day resident license for sport fishing, but was one issued to Tshibaka in 2019?

Suzanne Downing - July 26, 2021 29

The fishing license obtained by U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka in 2019 was a one-day fishing license, something only sold to non-residents. Or was...

Veterans Affairs mandates Covid vaccine for workforce

Suzanne Downing - July 26, 2021 33

A Covid-19 vaccine mandate that will apply to about 115,000 workers in the U.S. Veterans Administration will go into effect in eight weeks. Denis McDonough,...

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