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OPINION: Nonprofits Need Unions Too

Last month, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council workers announced they were forming a union. Non-management staff publicly declared a supermajority of support and submitted a request for voluntary recognition to the organization's leadership.  The story should have ended there.  Instead, the organization...

OPINION: The Consequences of Anchorage’s Overbuilt Environment

In the 1994 film “Blank Check,” an escaped convict drives over an 11-year-old’s bicycle, hastily writes him a blank check to cover the damages, and speeds away thinking the problem is behind him. Unforeseen by the convict, the kid...

Alaska Primary Voters Had More Choice in 2022

This article was originally published by the Sightline Institute and is republished here with permission. In Alaska, 2022 was the year of the Independent. Freed by the state’s return to open primaries, nearly half of Alaska candidates running for governor,...

The Best and Worst Political Stunts of 2022: The Ads

Every now and then, you hear a song and it just hits you like a haunted freight train. Think “Oh baby baby” in 1999 (and then every Britney beat after), a group sing-along to Oasis at a college party...

The Best and Worst Political Stunts of 2022: U.S. Congress Edition

Normally, I stick to covering the intricacies and minutiae of Alaska-based television programs, specifically reality TV. It’s an oddly specific niche, and has made me barely more qualified than your average modern jackass to judge a good story.  Given that,...

The Final Push to Election Day

Alaska is in the final stretch of its first regular general election with rank choice voting, with an open Congressional seat for the first time in nearly 50 years, a U.S. Senate race, all but one legislative seat on...

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