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Yearly Archives: 2021

Dr. Quinn-Davidson will bully you now

By SUZANNE DOWNING Anchorage Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson advised the public on April 12 that it's time to have "hard conversations" with your friends and neighbors...

Randy Ruedrich: Too many ballots cast? Hardly.

By RANDY RUEDRICH The 2021 Anchorage Municipal Regular Election is wrapping up with another 6,000 ballots or so to be counted today, April 13. I...

Senate Finance Committee would extend Alaska disaster declaration to Dec. 31

A Senate Finance Committee committee substitute for House Bill 76 would have the expired disaster declaration extended to Dec. 31, 2021. Offered by Finance Co-Chair...

Can companies force workers to get Covid vaccine as a condition of employment?

The memo from Alaska Industrial Hardware makes it clear: All employees shall be vaccinated against Covid-19 by August. Or else. Alaska Industrial Hardware is a...

Bronson increases lead, now up over 1,200 over Dunbar for Anchorage mayor

More ballots were counted on Monday, increasing the lead of Dave Bronson to nearly 2 percentage points above Forrest Dunbar. As of 5 pm,...

Tshibaka tours Kenai, filling up rooms and radio airwaves with jobs-economy message

Kelly Tshibaka's campaign for U.S. Senate had booked a room for 30 people at Land's End Resort in Homer, the last stop on her...

Pebbled: Environmental industry has fear-mongering down to an art

By MARK HAMILTON (Editor's note: This is the second in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) I’m not...

For Andrew Halcro, a crowning achievement is the boarding up of downtown Anchorage

By SUZANNE DOWNING “Hasty endings always leave things unsaid,” according to Andrew Halcro, who went on in his guest column in the Anchorage Daily News...

Anchorage police decline to endorse Dunbar for mayor

After severals days of internal debate, the Anchorage Police Department Employee Association walked away from endorsing Forrest Dunbar for mayor. In the end, the membership...

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