This is one of the best chances for voters to become more informed about the candidates and what they would like to do if they are elected on Tuesday October 6.
This is a real public service by the League of Women Voters, KUAC and the Daily News-Miner. It should be an example for public radio stations elsewhere and for Alaska Public Media to follow.
Read MoreFor all of their many faults, they are not as uninformed and clueless as Bernadette Wilson, who is the clear frontrunner in that category. She is close to the top of the all-time register, a candidate for the Hall of Fame.
She leads the league in saying she has “bold ideas,” while never saying anything bold or coming up with with anything resembling an idea.
Read MoreI don’t care much about resolutions recognizing commemorative months, but the overreaction of school board candidate Jaimee Coon and assembly candidate Miguel Ramirez to this routine school board resolution recognizing LGBTQ month deserves a public discussion before the October 6th election.
Read MoreWith the Kennedy Center in a Trump-induced collapse, Donna Arduin has left the building, abandoning her finance director’s job Tuesday with the institution’s finances a disaster.
Read MoreThere weren’t 91 flawed financial disclosure statements out of 121 examined. We have no idea what the right number is because the state claims were based on shoddy research conducted in a day-and-a-half that was never checked.
There is plenty time now to go back, contact candidates and “verify every apparent match,” which is what any competent researcher would do.
This sham has unfairly damaged the reputation of every professional within the Department of Law.
Read MoreIf you want to know what exactly what Jesus wants from political candidates, just ask Jim Minnery, the Anchorage politician who long had a habit of signing his communiques with “In His Name.”
Waving a flag in one hand and a cross in the other, Minnery excels at denouncing the forces of evil—nearly all of them Democrats—and spreading his blessing on the forces of decency—nearly all of them Republicans—under Donald Trump.
Read MoreThe moral of the story for Sen. Dan Sullivan is to show respect and pay attention.
And to be able to answer questions on your own.
Sullivan wasn’t paying attention. He didn’t listen to the question. And then he looked for guidance from Mary Peltola.
Read MoreAssembly member Tammie Wilson, who has a “family advocate” job created for her by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, and Assembly member Brett Rotermund, the owner of Bulletproof Trailers, have made this team business explicit, though one of the team members—Josh Leaders—takes umbrage at me mentioning this.
Read MoreJonathan 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.
Read MoreA 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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