For the second year in a row under Mayor Dave Bronson’s watch, the municipality’s bond rating has been downgraded, meaning holding debt will cost more taxpayer money.
This year, Fitch Ratings downgraded $105.5 million of the Municipalities general purpose and...
In April, Anchorage voters will determine the new makeup of the city’s legislative body, the Anchorage Assembly. The election could reshape the body’s majority due to the seven seats on the ballot, but also because it is the first...
Budget for 2023 Comes With a Restriction Against Using Funds Towards Hickel Contract Settlements:
The Anchorage Assembly continued its efforts to limit Mayor Dave Bronson’s abuse of taxpayer dollars last week, passing a 2023 operating budget which included a caveat...
ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY UNITES TO END PARKING MANDATES: Progressives and conservatives find common ground on easing regulations on housing and business development.
By:Catie Gould
This article was originally published on Sightline Institute, and is shared here with permission. All images for this...
Last week saw a flurry of new election activity as several people filed letters of intent to run for the seven Assembly seats that will be open for April's Anchorage Municipal election.
Throughout last week, the Alaska Division of Elections...
The Anchorage School District (ASD) no longer plans to cut immersion programs in the upper grade levels for the following year.
While the decision, announced at Tuesday’s School Board meeting, saves the programs for the time being, the district still...
Dayton Keliikipi, an Anchorage School District transportation Specialist and conspiracy theorist with a criminal record, has filed to run for Midtown Assembly District 4 against Assembly member Felix Rivera.
Dayton filed his letter of intent on Nov. 1 and launched...
Rep. Mary Peltola (D) is very likely on her way to reelection, even though we won’t see final results until the rank choice tabulation is done on Nov. 23. In August, Peltola earned 40% of first-choice votes. After Republican...
While the 2021 Anchorage municipal elections represented what appeared to be the first step in a successful effort for conservatives to take over and reshape the municipality in their image (Anti-Semitism, a guillotine, burning masks at Assembly meetings, etc.),...
Assembly member and former Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson announced today that she is not running for reelection.
With Quinn-Davidson, Pete Petersen, and likely Jamie Allard and Forrest Dunbar leaving the Assembly, the body could look vastly different in just a matter...