Anchorage in black and white, a picture of fascism
By ART CHANCE I’m something of a student of Western history. I’ve had some academic history, but I’m more of an autodidact; I don’t really adhere to the... Read more.
Tom Cashen, of a better generation in Labor
By ART CHANCE SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR I can manage a bit of sentimentality about the labor movement around Labor Day, and it is more poignant as I learned this week of... Read more.
Janus: The unions will play for time
THEY’LL LITIGATE UNTIL THEY CAN ELECT A DIFFERENT GOVERNOR By ART CHANCE SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR I’ve been the bad smell in the Republicans’ ballroom ever since... Read more.
IBU strike debriefing: All’s well that ends
By ART CHANCE I had some pretty harsh words for State Labor Relations and Law over the Inland Boatmen’s Union strike. I stand by my words that they got blindsided... Read more.
Acid, incense, and balloons: How I almost made it to Woodstock
By ART CHANCE This month some 50 years ago, a buddy and I started talking about going to a big concert in upper New York state: Woodstock, it was called. We were... Read more.
Red flag: The issue is sociopathic young men
By ART CHANCE The Left is in full song for gun control and especially “assault weapons” bans, even though the best definition for an assault weapon they can... Read more.
The party is over — maybe
By ART CHANCE Late in the evening of Aug. 1, the State and the Inland Boatmen’s Union reached a tentative agreement. A tentative agreement is an agreement... Read more.
Game on! Surprise strike is unfair labor practice
By ART CHANCE SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR The Inlandboatman’s Union’s strike caught the State of Alaska flat-footed. A good title for a piece about it would be, “At... Read more.
Hands in the money drawer
By ART CHANCE A friend sent me a spreadsheet listing the 1,000 highest paid State employees with their salary and benefit costs, hoping I would write about them. ... Read more.
Where have all the flowers gone?
By ART CHANCE If we define “the Left” as the anti-establishment or anti-government factions in America, they’ve been singing songs, carrying signs, and sometimes... Read more.
