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McKenna Brothers Improperly Pumped Diesel from Anchorage Municipal Fuel Depot 97 Times

News Yarrow Silvers -
McKenna Brothers Paving first started filling their trucks up at the Municipality of Anchorage’s fuel depot on Dec. 20. The depot is for city vehicles, and the fuel is purchased with public money. It’s not meant for contractors, and...
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Senate Majority proposes ‘bold’ increase to education funding

The Midnight Sun Matt Acuña Buxton -
The Alaska Senate Majority has made education funding a priority for this year’s legislative session as schools grapple with what years of an unchanged base student funding formula and inflation mean for their future. Today, the Senate Majority announced what...
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The Midnight Sun is joining The Alaska Current

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
After more than seven and a half years covering Alaska politics, The Midnight Sun political blog is joining the Alaska Current. Starting Feb. 1, The Midnight Sun officially becomes a part of the Alaska Current, a growing journalistic collective. The...
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Inside Kodiak’s Crab Standoff

News Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal -
After the heat wave-induced collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery, some fishermen were looking, with hope, at the upcoming tanner crab harvest out of Kodiak. The nearly 6-million-pound quota was the highest in decades. And some people spent more than...
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Extremist Internet Personality Harasses Rep. Peltola

News The Alaska Current -
As a new member to the DC, Rep. Mary Peltola is already a target for the MAGA swamp.  Earlier this month, far-right activist/white supremacist/internet personality Laura Loomer tweeted a video of her chasing Peltola around, harassing her.  Loomer is a self-described...
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Alaska’s Social Media Landscape: Murkowski Takes Twitter in December

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With the election in the rearview mirror, Alaskans spent December posting about feet upon feet of snow in Anchorage with not a plow in sight, and a meteor threatening to just end it all. Lisa Murkowski dominated Twitter by shaming...
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Open checkbook law introduced by Anchorage Assembly

News Yarrow Silvers -
The Anchorage Assembly is proposing more transparency of how the Municipality of Anchorage spends public funds.  Under a new proposal, Anchorage would implement an open checkbook law, requiring all spending to be published in a public ledger. The idea was...
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Did Mark Anthony Cox Engage In Self-Dealing on his Failed School Board Election?

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Anchorage School Board candidate Mark Anthony Cox, who has unsuccessfully run for office three times in the past two years, has some questionable campaign finance and spending practices. A review of Cox’s campaign finance filings show sizable expenditures to...
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Anchorage Assembly Passes Legislation for More Oversight of Mayor Dave Bronson

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The Anchorage Assembly took steps on Friday to limit Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s spending power and increase transparency, following allegations from his former municipal manager that he was authorizing improper contracts.  The Assembly approved three ordinances to give the body...
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Report: Bronson Administration Intimidating Employees Accessing Ombudsman’s Office

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The Anchorage Ombudsman’s Office, an arbiter independent of the mayoral administration, reported Thursday that Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration is pulling surveillance footage to see who is going in and out of the office. The Ombudsman reviews complaints from the...
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