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Roger Hickel Contracting Sues Municipality of Anchorage for Work on Navigation Center

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Roger Hickel Contracting is suing the Municipality of Anchorage for an unspecified amount for work Assembly members say was illegally authorized by Mayor Dave Bronson on the Tudor and Elmore Navigation Center last fall.  The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, is asking...
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Meet The Maps: East Anchorage

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For decades, East Anchorage has been one of the most diverse and politically unpredictable Assembly districts in the city. Under new boundaries, East Anchorage remains ethnically and socioeconomically diverse, but after losing some of its most conservative neighborhoods, could...
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Carving with Community: Native Youth Outdoors Hosts Free Clinic for Indigenous Youth

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On March 18th, an air of excitement hung in the rental shop at Mount Aurora SkiLand near Fairbanks as dozens of Indigenous teens and preteens flowed through the rental shop. One by one, they picked up snowboards, boots, and...
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Dunleavy wants Alaska schools to promote resource development in classroom

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This story was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. An industry group called “Alaska Resource Education” has long been creating materials for Alaska schools to promote the virtues of oil and gas, mining and forestry development. The materials on its website have...
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Salmon Skin Earrings and Seal Intestine Jewelry: Indigenous Artists Make Their Mark on Social Media

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When Erika Tripp’s most recent collection of earrings, zipper pulls and bolo ties go live on Instagram, she posts each item, one at a time: Oftentimes, the entire lot sells out in minutes to buyers across the country. Tripp sells...
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Mark Anthony Cox Ads Removed from People Mover Buses After Complaint

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Anchorage School Board candidate Mark Anthony Cox’s face made its way around town, emblazoned on the back of People Mover buses.  The ads quickly drew complaints and the city removed them over the weekend.  While the ads were technically for his...
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Legislature needs to confront the corrupt process of the salary sham, instead of making excuses

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This article was republished from dermotcole.com with permission.  If you haven’t done so already, please listen to the March 15 meeting of the new Alaska State Officers Compensation Commission, the meeting that followed the coup engineered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. It...
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More Than 7,000 Ballots Received So Far in Muni Election

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This visualization is provided to The Alaska Current through a partnership with Talk Data To Me and the 907 Policy Project.  With voting already under way in the April 4 vote-by-mail Municipality of Anchorage election, 7,114 ballots had been received...
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Bronson Administration Seeks $1.5M Contract Due to Employee Shortage

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Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson is again asking to privatize work usually done by municipal employees because the city’s offered wages have not kept up with inflation, resulting in a worker shortage. The move to privatized labor amounts to a...
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AG Tregarrick Taylor and his political opinions

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This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. Tregarrick Taylor, the third attorney general under Gov. Mike Dunleavy, disputes the notion that anything he does from his state perch is motivated by personal opinion or interpretation. “I don’t get to provide...
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