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Yearly Archives: 2022

Will it pass? Senate OKs $5,500 payment for qualifying Alaskans, including full statutory Permanent Fund dividend

The Alaska Senate voted Monday, 10-9 and 12-7 for budget amendments that have a combined $5,500 for every qualifying Alaskan -- man, woman, and...

Dems on the warpath: Al Gross is a ‘proven loser,’ the party says, trying to bump him from final four ballot

Al Gross, running for Congress, once had the love of the Alaska Democratic Party. When he ran for Senate against Sen. Dan Sullivan in...

New poll shows Nick Begich wins in ranked choice ballot

A new poll by Alaska Survey Research shows that congressional candidate Nick Begich is the winner of a ranked choice scenario that includes him,...

Elaina Spraker: Not so fast, Mr. Pettyjohn, on characterizing Safari Club International

By ELAINA SPRAKER As we enter into a prickly political season, campaign rhetoric will do its best to persistently persuade. It may be difficult to...

Kathy Henslee, Mark Anthony Cox file for Senate Seat G, a newly drawn Anchorage district

Fresh off a 52-47 loss to Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, Kathy Henslee has filed to run for Alaska Senate Seat G, a Midtown-South Anchorage...

Mara Kimmel, wife of former mayor, is new head of ACLU Alaska

The wife of former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is the new executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska. Mara Kimmel said, “In these turbulent...

Notes from the campaign trail II: Palin a no show in Bethel

Quitterville: Palin went to the airport in Anchorage, but the flight to Bethel was delayed and she did not make the forum that had...

Dramatic photo shows Lowell Point landslide

An aerial photo by Chip Arnold of Alaska SeaLife Center shows the major landslide across Lowell Point Road, south of Seward, which brought down...

Dave Donley: Pandemic increased the burden on public schools already overwhelmed by mission drift

By DAVE DONLEY America’s founding fathers knew that our nation’s democratic-republic form of government requires educated citizens to be successful.  I strongly support parental educational choice,...

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