Yearly Archives: 2021
Assembly rejects mayor’s pick for Real Estate director for Anchorage
In a 5-5 vote, during which Assemblyman Chris Constant appeared to be unable to cast a deciding vote due to a possible technical problem...
Win Gruening: Vote-by-mail doesn’t deliver, but does the Juneau Assembly care?
The City and Borough of Juneau seems to be exempt from the fundamental principle that “measurement improves performance,” because, by any objective metric, their...
Wasilla roll-out: Nick Begich makes it official as he announces run for Congress
With his wife and son by his side, Nick Begich, the grandson of the late Alaska Rep. Nick Begich, announced he is a candidate...
Michael Tavoliero: Now is the time for Eagle River to exit
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO
There’s a great story about a Christmas roast that I think about whenever I have a challenge with the status quo.
It goes...
Mayor Bronson’s homelessness problem-solver quits
John Morris, who was Mayor Dave Bronson's leader for reducing chronic homelessness and street drug addiction, has thrown in the towel.
Sources in the...
Video: Did Assemblyman Chris Constant flash the ‘Loser’ sign at a citizen?
During Wednesday's Anchorage Assembly meeting, a woman in the audience shouted to the front that Assemblyman Chris Constant had made the L-shaped "Loser" sign...
Will they arrest the unmasked citizens at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting?
After the Anchorage Assembly hastily ended its meeting on Wednesday without taking up any business on the agenda except its new mask rule, it...
Bethel City Council votes to block Joe Public from attending city meetings in person
Twenty months into the Covid-19 pandemic in Alaska, the Bethel City Council has approved an ordinance that will prohibit the public from attending in...
Anchorage Assembly gets nothing done, abruptly gavels out after passing another mask rule that few in room were obeying
After a late start for its meeting on Wednesday, the Anchorage Assembly was able to get through the Pledge of Allegiance, the land acknowledgement....
Eugene Haberman, an Anchorage government watchdog, has passed
A man who attended nearly every Anchorage Assembly meeting, including special meetings, has died, Must Read Alaska has learned.
Eugene Haberman testified on almost every...