Yearly Archives: 2021
Governor adds Covid response to this special session, expanding telehealth and multi-state nursing licensure
oday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy expanded the third special session to include two pieces of legislation that will strengthen the state’s ongoing response to the current...
Kelly Tshibaka: Afghan refugees must be vetted before they are admitted to U.S.
By KELLY TSHIBAKA
While the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan needed to end at some point, President Biden’s reckless withdrawal plan was an epic failure...
Pivot: Democrat partisans going on attack to force governor to declare emergency again
Democrat Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky of Bethel and Rep. Liz Snyder of East Anchorage signed an op-ed this week in which they posited that since...
Kelly Tshibaka names co-chairs for Senate campaign
Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka today identified her campaign's regional co-chairs.
Rural: Paulette Schuerch was born in Kotzebue and raised by her grandparents...
Rep. David Eastman: I was chief-of-police of the American military base in downtown Kabul. This is what I saw
By DAVID EASTMAN
On my first flight to Afghanistan I came by way of Kyrgyzstan. By chance, we were on site the day the Government of Kyrgyzstan...
Assembly overrides mayor’s first veto
As expected, the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday voted to override Mayor Dave Bronson's first veto of his term in office. The veto and subsequent...
House narrowly defeats Rep. Eastman’s effort to end vaccine discrimination in employment in Alaska
The House voted down an amendment to House Bill 3003 offered by Rep. David Eastman that would have inserted intent language that would prohibit...
Sullivan demands answers from Biden on why 200 Americans are ‘forsaken’ by him
Sen. Dan Sullivan, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and...
Association of Alaska School Boards: ‘No Covid vax, no attending events’
The Association of Alaska School Boards has a new vaccine passport policy for its upcoming events, academics, and conferences: If school board members don't...
Mayor Bronson rescinds two workplace policies that were 11th-hour moves from last administration
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson today rescinded two workplace policies hastily established by the previous administration of temporary Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson: Paid Parental Leave and...