The irony of Kristie Babcock’s attack on Chief Justice Joel Bolger
June 4, 2021
The opinion piece by Kristie Babcock recently published in the Anchorage Daily News, in which she accuses Chief Justice Joel Bolger of being a...
Community Voices
I’m running to create a brighter future
September 7, 2021
I want a brighter future, not a state people have been leaving for a record four years in a row. We can do better than the loss of thousands of good-paying jobs, closed small businesses and less opportunity to succeed.
I’m running for Governor because we deserve an Alaska we can believe in again.
Like many of you, I grew up…
What if we could vote online?
April 13, 2021
Voting legislation has drawn lots of attention these days. There is very little chance that any election/voting bills will pass this year in Juneau….
Vote Bill Evans for mayor
March 7, 2021
There are a lot of folks in this race, and each candidate can make a case for why they should be Mayor. Please allow...
Mike Robbins is the best choice for mayor of Anchorage
March 5, 2021
The 2021 Anchorage mayor’s race is as important as any past mayor’s election I can recall. In the days of the titans like George...
Sexism should not be a political issue
March 5, 2021
You may have seen my name recently on social media or in the news because of something that occurred on the House floor last...
Let’s elect a mayor who can get us through crises and deliver
March 4, 2021
The upcoming April 2021 mayoral election is about who is best prepared to meet the moment. I’m the only candidate with significant executive-management and...
Vote George Martinez for mayor
March 3, 2021
Note: As part of our coverage of the 2021 Anchorage mayoral race, the Landmine invited the…
Vote Dave Bronson for mayor
March 2, 2021
Anchorage is in desperate need of leadership. From the rapid increase in public vagrancy, to the Assembly interjecting political interference with Anchorage Police...
Forrest Dunbar is the right choice for Anchorage’s next mayor
March 1, 2021
Ballots for the next Municipal election will arrive in our mailboxes in just a few weeks. As voters, we face an important decision about...
Alaska’s elected officials lack the political will to solve our fiscal crisis
February 2, 2021
Alaska doesn’t have a fiscal crisis, we have a math problem and a lack of political will to solve it. According to the Legislative...
Plug and Chug: Driving an electric car from Vermont to Alaska during a pandemic
January 10, 2021
Back in January, the Wall Street Journal released a 26-minute video called the Electric Vehicle Road Test. It chronicles the experience of eight of...
The resilience of Alaskan music communities
December 28, 2020
2020 has been particularly difficult for Alaskan musicians. COVID-19 eliminated many gigs in an already sparse market, and many remaining gigs went virtual. Not...
Vote no on Ballot Measure 2
November 2, 2020
We write because Alaskans urgently need to know the truth about Ballot Measure 2. Much has been written about the well-documented dangers of ranked...
Let’s imagine our future together, Alaska: vote yes on 2
November 2, 2020
In the final week of this election season, Alaska has once again become ground zero for virtually untraceable campaign spending and nasty attack ads…
Why I am voting no on Ballot Measure 1
November 2, 2020
You can’t talk Alaska without talking oil. It’s one of those ever-present inextricable truths. Wisconsin has cheese. California has Hollywood. And we have swaths...
