COVID restrictions aren’t ending anytime soon for Anchorage
The extraordinary powers that Anchorage’s unelected Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson enjoys to impose emergency restrictions and mandates on businesses, churches, schools, individuals and other entities will likely continue unabated until at least April,
Petition to recall Anchorage Assemblyman Rivera is certified, now court battle looms
The effort to remove Anchorage Assembly Chair Felix Rivera cleared a key hurdle on Jan. 15 when Anchorage Clerk Barbara Jones certified that the petition had at least 2,735 qualified signatures from Assembly District 4. That’s 25% of all voters in the area.
Open letter challenges statement by 12 Anchorage pastors regarding D.C. violence and Trump’s role
Editor’s note: The following letter was submitted to the Watchman in response to a Jan. 12 statement by 12 Anchorage pastors which condemned the Jan. 6 violence in at the U.S. Capitol building and also blamed President Trump for inciting the crimes. The
Anchorage pastor clarifies statement condemning D.C. riots and Trump’s words
Editor’s note: The following statement from Pastor Tim Davis, of Chapel by the Sea, was submitted in response to a Jan. 14 Watchman article about a statement that was signed by 12 Anchorage pastors (Pastor Davis included). The pastors’ original
Sen. Murkowski praises House, says it ‘appropriately’ impeached Trump
Unlike her colleague Rep. Don Young, who voted against impeaching President Trump, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski praised the U.S. House of Representatives for its hasty impeachment vote on Jan. 13. Led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi the House voted 232-197 in favor of
12 Alaska faith leaders condemn D.C. violence, blame Trump
Twelve Anchorage-based religious leaders issued a joint statement condemning what they called “unthinkable mutiny” at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6. The Jan. 12 statement begins by affirming the “right to assemble and peacefully
Rep. Young votes against impeachment, calls on all sides to ‘tone down rhetoric’
The longest current member of the U.S. House of Representatives voted against impeaching President Trump on Jan. 13. Rep. Don Young joined most of his fellow Republicans in refusing to hastily remove their president. The vote came one week after a small
Dunleavy restores Alaska court funds he vetoed over abortion dispute
The ACLU of Alaska is celebrating Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s capitulatation to a court order that he restore money he vetoed from the Alaska Court System last year shortly after the Supreme Court said his administration had to pay for elective abortions.
OPINION: Elections Still Matter
This past week has been traumatic. Last Wednesday protestors forcefully entered the United States Capitol building and occupied offices and the chambers in an illegal act of defiance over the 2020 presidential elections. These people were not terrorists, they
Anchorage lawsuit filed to block recall Rivera petition
A group working in conjunction with Anchorage Assembly Chair Felix Rivera filed a lawsuit to block a grassroots effort to remove the controversial assemblyman. Filed on Jan. 7, the lawsuit asks the Anchorage Superior Court to order the city clerk to reject
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