Yearly Archives: 2021
Laddie Shaw: In memory of Extortion 17
By REP. LADDIE SHAW
August 6 is an important date in American military history for many reasons; among other things, today is the 76th anniversary of the...
Lydia Jacoby feted in Seward parade
Seward town folk and visitors turned out to celebrate its Olympic medal-winning 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby on Thursday. Seward had fire trucks and festooned flatbeds...
Crickets from mainstream media
ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET
You have to wonder sometimes whether Anchorage’s news media are asleep at the switch or whether their failure to report the news...
200 turn out to protest forced vaccinations at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
About 200 people with bold and colorful homemade signs showed up Thursday afternoon near the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium campus in Anchorage to...
Art Chance: Aug. 6, 1945 and the end of the world
By ART CHANCE
Five thousand years of the plodding progression of Western Civilization ended and a new World was born a little after 8:15 am...
Teachers dance and clap for the school year, and then the superintendent issues the mask mandate for 50,000 students
By SUZANNE DOWNING
The teachers gathered in the Bartlett High School auditorium in Anchorage, crowded in together, hardly a mask in sight, while a woman...
Democrats pressure governor to appeal the reversal of $500 campaign donation limit
The Alaska Senate Democrats are asking Gov. Mike Dunleavy to fight a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that made the $500 campaign donation...
Mat-Su Borough school superintendent: No masks required for back-to-school
Superintendent of the Mat-Su Borough School District Randy Trani presented his school Covid-19 mitigation plan to the borough school board on Wednesday night.
The...
Dave Donley: Why I voted against masking the kids
By DAVE DONLEY / ANCHORAGE SCHOOL BOARD
The two school districts geographically contiguous to the Anchorage School District, Kenai and Mat-Su, have rejected mandatory masking...
Don Young fundraiser draws in bipartisan group of supporters
From former Gov. Bill and Donna Walker, union representatives, to politicos whose resumes stretch far back in Alaska history, about 150 people gathered for...