Chickaloon tribal police expansion to serve local and rural communities
Chickaloon Native Village is in the early stages of revamping and expanding its tribal police force with the long-term goal of providing a unique law enforcement arrangement to Alaska Native tribes in areas where policing is historically limited or
ELECTION UPDATE: Anchorage school & facility bonds failing, but key races unchanged
The third day of vote counting in the Anchorage election wrapped April 7 with at least 14,000 ballots still yet to be tallied. So far, there has been no substantial change from election night in key Anchorage Assembly and school board contests. Two bond
The wisdom I gleaned along a Kiev river reverberates today
Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikisha was a talented and accomplished mathematician in his late 30s. He was a rocket scientist, working in the Moscow Aviation Institute in the 1960s and 1970s – the years I knew and communicated with him. At that time, it was the
Why should Alaskans trust them again?
We live in the sinister shadow of the most preposterous election in American history – the 2020 election that most conservatives believe was stolen. We have had many of the same questions haunting us with our own Alaskan issues and officeholders from
Glen Biegel to Anchorage: Don’t wait -vote NOW!
It’s voting day because you really can’t vote in person. There are three locations to vote: City Hall (hah!), the Loussac library, and the Town Center in Eagle River. Didn’t know that, or do you plan to stand in a three-plus-hour-long line
After a month at ‘minimal’ risk Juneau schools relax mask mandates
With some exceptions, as of April 4, most children attending Juneau public schools will finally be able to attend classes without covering their faces. While the overall “community risk level” has been deemed “level 1 minimal” since Feb. 28, the
Alaskans to protest violations of grand juries’ right to investigate public officials
Please join the March 30, 7:30 a.m., rally at the Kenai Courthouse, to demonstrate against public officials stopping Grand Jury investigations into evidence of crime and corruption by public officials. Click here for more
Alaska will not verify voter signatures in first-ever statewide mail-in election
Alaska’s Division of Elections will not verify the authenticity of voter signatures on the ballots cast in the upcoming June 11 special statewide primary to replace Rep. Don Young. “There is no statutory authority to verify signatures, but voters will
Bedlam reigns in Alaska’s lunatic election asylum
Each day we awake to find that, despite the hopes of turning things around, our culture has become a veritable lunatic asylum. The term “bedlam” means confusion and insanity, but it originated with the name of London’s infamous insane asylum. In the
Vote NO on Anchorage school bonds: Focus must be students, not buildings
We all want our kids to have the best chance of success in life. Anchorage’s public schools play a vital role in that outcome. Unfortunately, we are hobbling our kids’ academic opportunities by allocating far too many of our nation-leading
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