The new board of the Fairbanks newspaper—the selection of which should require real community outreach—is going to have to wrestle with big questions such as whether the print publication should be ended entirely and how to improve its online presence and generate more revenue.
Read MoreDemocrat Tom Begich ended his campaign for governor Friday and endorsed the Democratic leader Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who shares many of the same political positions.
The decision to unify behind JKT increases the chances for the Democratic candidate in the November election.
Read MoreThe experience of the past year-and-a-half points to a series of red flags that went unheeded by Alaskans.
The uncomfortable truth is that Glenfarne was never the right company to plan and execute one of the world’s largest construction projects.
Read More“He’s slandering Bernadette,” GOP publicist Suzanne Downing claims about Dave Bronson, calling him a misogynist who is helping the Democrats by refusing to drop out of the governor’s race and clear the way for Bernadette Wilson.
Read MoreSeven months ago President Donald Trump praised himself for starting the giant Alaska LNG pipeline project.
“Launched a massive Alaska pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal with South Korea and Japan that gives us money, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before,” he said during his one-year victory lap as a two-time president.
Read MoreWhat Glenfarne and the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign want Alaskans to forget about are the extravagant promises of 2025 that Donald Trump would make the Alaska LNG pipeline a reality.
Alaska’s Republican governor and Republican Congressional delegation claimed for months that Trump would get Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and other nations to pay for Alaska’s largest construction project and get it built in record time.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third have had nothing to say about Donald Trump’s latest ill-conceived attack on our Canadian neighbors.
The two candidates should be calling on Trump to stop destroying the relationship with our nation’s most important ally.
Because of our location, no state has a more important reason to maintain good relations with Canada than Alaska. You think Trump ever gets that message from Sullivan and Begich?
They might as well be Natalie Harp for all of their ability to speak truth to the president.
Read MoreThe Mensa members in Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign coterie think that the people who voted for Petersburg Dan Sullivan are so stupid that they voted for the wrong Sullivan by mistake.
Were it not for all those dumbbells who couldn’t read the ballot, Sullivan would only be about 4,000 votes behind Mary Peltola, instead of 7,000, according to the Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent campaign.
Read MoreThe president of the United States and the Justice Department, with the full support of Sen. Dan Sullivan, are abusing our justice system to intimidate Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg and violate his civil rights.
That’s the only way to interpret the news that broke on Election Day that a federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to try to prosecute Petersburg Sullivan for having the gall to run against an incumbent Republican senator with the same name.
Read MoreFormer Assembly Member Barbara Haney, a Republican state House candidate in House District 33, didn’t bother to check the facts before passing along false information from Facebook, an attack on one of her opponents in the race, Fairbanks teacher Pepper McFarland, an independent.
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