Yearly Archives: 2021
It’s complicated: Will it be the $1K PFD in Senate, or zero dividend from House?
The Senate Finance Committee is sending to the Senate floor a $1,000 Permanent Fund dividend proposal, yet another arbitrarily determined amount that has nothing...
Slow roll: Muni Clerk has only counted 2,600 ballots since Friday, with nearly 2,000 to go
The Anchorage Municipal Clerk released a new ballot count today: Her election office counted another 2,600 ballots in the Anchorage mayoral runoff election between...
The wisdom of the electorate: The Marxist vs. the marketplace
By MIKE ROBBINS
I, too, was surprised at the tone the Anchorage Daily News took toward Mayor-elect Dave Bronson this weekend, telling him that he doesn’t...
Courtview is back
The Alaska Court System's Courtview website, which was offline for about three weeks after a cyberattack, is back.
That means the public has the...
Acting mayor rushing through ARP expenditures before new mayor sworn in
At tonight's special Anchorage Assembly meeting, Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson will ask the Assembly to approve the allocations for the $51.1 million in American...
Interior reversal: Native Vietnam vets can apply for their land allotments
The Biden Administration, bowing to stinging criticism, has done a 180-degree turn on a decision it made that was deeply hurtful to Alaska Native...
Surprise: No results from Election Office today
According to a press release from the Anchorage Election Office, no more ballot counts will be released today in the May 11 mayoral runoff....
New website allows Alaskans to remove their names from recall Dunleavy petition
Having second thoughts about signing the Recall Dunleavy petition during the past two years? Don't want your name made public after the recall petition...
Dunleavy declares disaster for Buckland, as flooding subsides but mess remains
Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a disaster for the City of Buckland and Native Village of Buckland after an ice jam on the Buckland River...
Supreme Court to revisit Roe v Wade in Mississippi review
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a Mississippi case that is a challenge to Roe vs. Wade, the historic Court decision in...