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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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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With voting already under way in the April 4 vote-by-mail Municipality of Anchorage election, 7,114 ballots had been received...
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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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...
East Anchorage Assembly candidate Spencer Moore is heavily connected to Mountain City Church, formerly called the Anchorage Baptist Temple, though much of his campaign material doesn’t mention the affiliation.
Moore works for the church full time as its outreach coordinator....
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson is looking to defund the Federation of Community Councils, citing the federation manager’s opposition to the proposed Holtan Hills housing development as overly political.
The Girdwood development, which was voted down by the Anchorage Assembly last...
In early March, we talked with West Anchorage Assembly candidate Anna Brawley to learn about what motivated her to run for Assembly, and what she would focus on if elected. Brawley is a city planner and senior associate at...
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From the Anchorage Daily News Monday after action by the Biden administration approving the Willow oil project by ConocoPhillips to be built on the North Slope: “Alaska’s congressional delegation said during a...
In early March, we talked with East Anchorage Assembly candidate Karen Bronga to learn about what motivated her to run for Assembly, and what she would focus on if elected. The following interview has been edited for brevity and...