Jonathan Knezel, who earned a bachelor’s degree this year from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, went to Korea not long ago to teach English. It’s not at all unusual for a young man of 25 to explore the world.

What makes his story special are the circumstances under which he left Korea for the first time and traveled to the United States with 240 strangers.

I met him on September 11, 2001 when he was a four-month-old and the center of attention inside the busy terminal at Fairbanks International Airport. He was wrapped in a blanket, wearing an ID on his wrist and a smile on his face.

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A four-page campaign ad from Sen. Dan Sullivan, paid for with government dollars, has landed in the mailboxes of every “residential customer” in Alaska.

Sullivan should have paid for this document with his own money, not with tax dollars.

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“President Trump is finally beginning to tap significantly into his super PAC’s $400 million war chest to help Republicans in the midterms,” the New York Times reports.

The No Going Back PAC has “reserved” $7.7 million to spend in Alaska, the Times reported

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The members of the Golden Valley Electric Association deserve to hear more points of view about the utility’s costly proposal to buy a large generator similar to a jet engine on a 747.

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It should come as no surprise that the office of acting Attorney General Cori Mills, supplemented by the office of shadow attorney general Stephen Cox, had the staff available to find errors in 91 of 121 financial disclosure statements of candidates.

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It is improper to use the Senate letterhead for partisan correspondence and for "any campaign or campaign-related correspondence," according to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

But Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for a third six-year term and must know the rule, decided to violate it last week.

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Former Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor, an off-again on-again candidate for governor, has a pronoun problem.

Upon learning that he is back on the ballot, Taylor complained that “they” kicked him off the ballot and “they” treated him unfairly.

“They” did not take Taylor off the ballot. And they did not put him back.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom did all that.

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The news coverage about Donald Trump’s alleged plan to visit Alaska to campaign for Sen. Dan Sullivan presented this information as if it was revealed by a man with full control of his faculties.

The news coverage concealed the context, which is that Trump made his so-called announcement after nearly 50 disjointed minutes of lies and half-truths about everything from the evil Canadians to his ballroom obsession, his beautiful helipad and how cheap gasoline was a year ago.

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Sen. Dan Sullivan is campaigning with wealthy Trump lackeys in Alaska, claiming that they are working together to lower energy costs.

What are you going to believe? The $4.94-per-gallon price at the gas pump in major Alaska cities? The electric bills in Interior Alaska that show the highest rates ever? The $5,000 bill that many homeowners are facing to fill up with heating oil?

Or the two white-haired rich guys boasting about “lowering costs” as they stride out of the Alaska Energy Authority to try to get votes, dressed in white shirts in their cute state-supplied embroidered black vests?

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I suspect that Candice English is going to be a candidate in name only.

It is more likely that English, who stepped into the Tregarrick Taylor void, will call on Republicans to support Bernadette Wilson alone or along with Dave Bronson.

That would create a three-way race with Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bronson and Wilson.

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