Yearly Archives: 2021
Nebraska AG won’t prosecute doctors for prescribing ivermectin for Covid
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson said on Thursday he will take no legal action against doctors who prescribe two off-label drugs to treat or...
Kathleen Sgamma: If we don’t drill for oil on federal lands, we’ll have to buy it from Russia
By KATHLEEN SGAMMA / WESTERN ENERGY ALLIANCE
The budget reconciliation bill before Congress would, if passed with all the public lands provisions, drive oil and...
Eni suspends mandatory vaccine directive, while Hilcorp still has no vaccine mandate
One of the oil companies working in Alaska has suspended its requirement that employees must be vaccinated for Covid-19.
Because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued...
Delta variant: Airline goes its own way, won’t mandate vaccines in employees
Using a carrot-and-stick approach, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said that more than 90 percent of the airlines' staff is vaccinated, and so...
Recall Zaletel group challenges hundreds of ballots that were mailed to registered voters also registered on out-of-state voter rolls
The group trying to recall Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel has preemptively challenged about 200 Anchorage District 4 voters, who are being sent ballots to...
Jab or no job XIV: Young Native worker at Alaska Native Medical Center says goodbye
This is the 14th in a series of stories of people being fired from their jobs because they have declined to take the required...
Mandates for kids ahead? Pediatricians being advised to prepare to vaccinate ages 5-11 for Covid
The American Academy of Pediatricians is advising its members that they will be able to vaccinate children ages 5-11 for Covid soon, and it's...
Michael Tavoliero: Time to repeal the POMV, and go back to original statutory formula
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO
Our Alaska government has a scotoma, a blind spot. It can’t see the forest for the trees.
The scotoma I’m speaking about is the...
Foodie summit? Guy Fieri spotted at Tequila 61 in Anchorage, so Congressman Young invites him to ‘diner, drive-in, or dive’
He co-owns three restaurants in California. He licenses his name to restaurants in New York City and Las Vegas. On Friday, he was spotted filming in...
Wading into politics, a group of Anchorage pediatricians go hard against Muni top doc
Medical science isn't as complicated as political science, but on Friday, an association of Alaska pediatricians waded on into the political deep end of...