Anchorage’s acting mayor stopped by hair salon while COVID positive
While at least one eyewitness claims otherwise, Anchorage Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson said she did not actually enter a hair salon after testing positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 5. If she did, that would be blatant defiance of her own emergency order
Can Biden’s Defense Secretary pick stop China from becoming the premier global superpower?
Potential President-elect Biden has announced General Lloyd Austin as his choice for Secretary of Defense. I don’t know much about General Austin, never met him during my time in service. However, all indications are he was a rock solid military leader who
UPDATE: Ballot Measure 2 loses very little ground in first round of audit reporting
Editor’s note: The Division of Elections said it made a typo error in its initial audit update that showed 40 additional “yes” votes from District 6. There were no additional yes votes from this district. After the first two days of hand
So far, state says Ballot Measure 2 audit shows ‘nothing significant’
Two days into an audit, which includes hand counting more than 300,000 ballots from the recent general election, there are no significant changes with regard to the outcome of Ballot Measure 2. “What we’re finding so far is nothing significant
Anchorage Assembly uses double standard when interpreting the word ‘shall’
Editor’s note: The following letter was submitted to Anchorage Assembly members by Beth Abisror in response to their refusal to hold a special election to let residents vote on a replacement for former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz who resigned on Oct. 23. Dear
Governor reflects on a year dominated by COVID fallout
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s second year at Alaska’s helm was utterly preoccupied with COVID-19. His ruminations on what he’s accomplished in 2020 reflect this. The governor’s Dec. 7 statement about his 2020 accomplishments opens by saying he hopes to get
Dunleavy hails ‘bravery and final sacrifice’ of Pearl Harbor heroes
Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a proclamation to mark the 79th anniversary of the surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. The aerial assault by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, claimed the lives of 2,403 soldiers and
12.5 > Politicizing Masks
Recently, an old friend posed the question to me, “why are masks so political? It’s just a piece of cloth…” and so today we unpack this
8,600 sign petition citing concerns about Anchorage mask mandate for athletes
A petition against Anchorage’s mandate that athletes wear face masks during practices and competitions has now been signed by nearly 9,000 people who say the order “defies a growing body of scientific data about significant negative health effects of
Judge asked to block Anchorage Assembly from holding closed-door meetings
Superior Court Judge Una Sonia Gandbhir heard oral arguments, Dec. 4, in a lawsuit claiming the Anchorage Assembly violated Alaska’s Open Meetings Act by barring the public from attending Assembly meetings in August of this year. Mike Corey, representing
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