Remember the Sockeye fire north of Willow that destroyed 55 homes in 2015? Under federal law, taxpayers can write off uninsured losses from such events. But Alaska's Congressional delegation wants to change all that.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was unequivocal in her call for Sen. Al Franken to resign from Congress because of allegations about inappropriate behavior, has no intention of holding President Donald Trump to the same standard.
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Good news. Bryce Ward, the mayor of North Pole, has filed a letter of intent to run for mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. We need young people like him in local government.
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It is not smart politics to highlight what you are doing for big earners when you cut taxes, so the Republicans want to make it appear that families earning $75,000 are their real target audience, not rich people and one percenters.
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You would think that a U.S. company paying a 1 percent tax rate—thanks to long-established policies endorsed by both parties—deserved a tax increase under the GOP tax plan that Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan like to advertise as "reform." But you would be wrong.
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In creating their unpopular bill to cut taxes and explode the deficit, Senate leaders stuffed as many giveaways as possible into the measure, offering a little something to please every Republican, never counting the real cost.
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I began work in newspapers in 1976 covering sports in Fairbanks, working on an electric typewriter, a chain-smoking 23-year-old. Writing has never been an easy thing for me and I will never master it, but I have the discipline to keep trying to learn.
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