OPINION: Why America provoked and prolongs Russia-Ukraine war
Thirty-five years ago this spring, Mikhail Gorbachev, then President of the Soviet Socialist Republic, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from the University of Alaska Southeast. Then-UAS Chancellor Marshall Lind invited Soviet Ambassador Yuri
OPINION: All of Alaska shouldn’t pay for Anchorage School District’s mismanagement
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it.
REP. MCCABE: It’s time to end taxpayer funding of partisan NPR media
Defunding NPR wouldn’t silence it; it would simply put it on the same playing field as every other media company. Let it earn its place in the market, not rely on taxpayers to keep it
TODAY: Anchorage can elect solid conservatives to School Board & Assembly
Today, April 1, Anchorage voters have an opportunity to place solid conservatives on the Assembly and school
Anchorage election administrator quits in middle of city election
The man in charge of preparing, conducting and supervising Anchorage’s mail-in voting system has abruptly quit his post right in the middle of the
OPINION: What’s the best way to bribe a politician?
If someone wanted to influence politicians financially, they could purchase large amounts of their books to funnel money to them. This isn’t just a theory; it has been done
OPINION: Spending bill would let Alaska schools reap what they did not sow
These are bad faith negotiators. At a time when Alaska finds itself starving on many levels, the education system has decided to strike while the iron is hot and take a giant bite out of the apple while the rest of us sit around and watch it being eaten. How
NO NEED: State denies hospital’s plan to expand emergency care in Anchorage
Alaska’s Department of Health has, once again, denied an application by Alaska Regional Hospital to expand its emergency room department capacity in
BOB BIRD: Gold could shape the future, as it has the past (Part 2)
I can’t tell you how prices might shake out if - and when - we return to a specie-based currency, but I can guarantee one thing: Gold rushes would return as part of Alaskan - and human -
BOB BIRD: ‘We could use another gold rush’ (Part 1)
We could use another gold rush. Hey, there used to be so many of them. What
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