Yearly Archives: 2021
Alexander Dolitsky: Richard Nixon, a fur coat, and an escape from the Soviet Union
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY
When the Soviet Union allowed a number of Soviet Jews to emigrate after the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, expectations of...
Dan Fagan: As each day passes, state leaders move further away from reality
By DAN FAGAN
It’s easy to drift away from believing what’s real, with all the lies, half-truths, and propaganda swirling around us.
Without even realizing it,...
Neo-segregation: A Juneau teen club has ‘BIPOC only’ events as it divides students
Across the country, universities are adopting "safe spaces" for people of various gender and racial identities, and dorms for people of different ethnic backgrounds.
In...
Alaska oil prices edge over $75
Alaska North Slope crude popped up over $75 a barrel last week, a price not seen since October, 2014, when prices were coming down...
Alaska Life Hack: Alaska Airlines will boost flights to NYC, but won’t fly there from LAX
Alaska Airlines is reorganizing its routes to better compete. The company will be offering 25 daily nonstop flights from West Coast cities to New...
Getting up with fleas
By ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
We note with more than a passing interest Democratic Rep. Geran Tarr’s decrying the bullying tactics used by her caucus in...
Former Alaska U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel passes
Former Alaska U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel died on Saturday at the age of 91, in Seaside, Calif. The cause of his death was myeloma....
Dimitri Lanahan, pointed paintball gun at police, was on the lam from halfway house
The 23-year-old man shot dead by Alaska State Troopers on Friday was on the lam from the Cordova Center in Anchorage and a warrant...
Alaska Lemonade Day — it’s a thing in the 49th State
Who knew? Alaska has an Alaska Lemonade Day, as demonstrated by Macie Miller, one busy entrepreneur today in Wasilla. Miller is selling the favorite...
Ted Cruz, Susan Collins, and other senators file bill to end mask mandates on airlines
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced a Senate...