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Yearly Archives: 2021

Acting mayor announces a return of traditional Memorial Day ceremony

The Municipality of Anchorage, under former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, took a hard pass on having a Memorial Day ceremony in 2020. Last year, the...

Quinn-Davidson throws shade on Bronson supporters for opinions on vagrancy issues

During a Friday Zoom teleconference briefing on homelessness, Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson took to task the supporters of Mayor-elect Dave Bronson. She believes their...

Alexander Dolitsky: My first days in America as a Soviet immigrant

By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY There are decisive episodes, dreams, words, scenes, facial expressions, meetings, smells and other physical and spiritual phenomenon that are deeply recorded in...

Surprise: Quinn-Davidson plans to take homeless out of Sullivan Arena and put them in Tudor Road former Alaska Club

After thousands of dollars in theft, vandalism and other damage to the Sullivan Arena, the acting mayor of Anchorage has finalized a plan to...

Sackett takes leave from governor’s Fairbanks office

Jim Sackett, the office manager of the governor's Fairbanks office, is returning to full-time pastoral ministry. Friday was his last day working in the...

All aboard, July: Major sailings for Alaska could fill up soon if Biden signs bill quickly

Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Carnival Cruise Line are planning to operate one ship per line for a short season in Alaska that...

Muni gives up on working? Now it’s Bike to ‘Wherever’ Day

The Anchorage Municipality has supported "Bike to Work Day" for over a decade. The annual event celebrates bicycling as a way to improve the...

Bob Bell: We need a Legislature that looks out for us, not for themselves

By BOB BELL The state legislature is going through a convoluted and dysfunctional budgeting process. Those of us who follow this debacle every year hope...

The purchase that changed the course of American history

By DAVID MCMAHAN In 1867, after more than a century of occupation, Russia sold her Alaska holdings to the United States. The transfer ceremony took...

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