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The Alaska Policy Forum has long peddled the claim that the easy cure-all for public education in Alaska is to spend less money on it and redirect the money so it can...
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, at his boarding-school whiniest, comes across as if someone took his puppy in his inquisition of lawyer Gigi Sohn, nominated by President Biden to the Federal Communications Commission in...
The Bronson administration is considering relocating people experiencing homelessness to Centennial and other campgrounds after the winter.
The idea was discussed during an Emergency Shelter Task Force meeting Monday afternoon. Mayor Dave Bronson’s Homeless Coordinator, Alexis Johnson, presented several options...
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The Anchorage Daily News says Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has proven himself to be “unqualified, incompetent and out of his depth” during his year-and-a-half as mayor of the state’s largest city.
The newspaper...
Under new boundaries, Anchorage’s Southside-Turnagain Arm-Girdwood Assembly district stays nearly 90% the same. South Anchorage remains the most wealthy and conservative district in the Anchorage Bowl.
This is the least-changed district following the reapportionment process. Unlike most of the municipality,...
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The former temporary budget director for Gov. Mike Dunleavy is back, hired by Rep. Ben Carpenter, the right-wing Kenai Republican who leads the committee that will allegedly figure out the future of...
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...
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...
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...
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...