Alaska Landmine Articles

Ask a Cat: Incoming tourists, sensitive people, and gaslighting

Cat   April 8, 2024

Feeling triggered? Seasonal ennui? Desperate to be chosen for Featured Feline? The Cat can help. Reach out anonymously here or e-mail askacat@alaskalandmine.com. Dear Most…

The Sunday Minefield – April 7, 2024

Jeff Landfield   April 7, 2024

We are more than two-thirds through the 121-day session limit. After more than a week of hearing budget amendments, the House Finance Committee passed…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: ENSTAR’s confusing claims

Brad Keithley   April 5, 2024

At a time when the Legislature and the public urgently need clarity and transparency around Cook Inlet gas issues, we are having a difficult...

The Sunday Minefield – March 31, 2024

Jeff Landfield   March 31, 2024

Happy Easter! This was a short week in Juneau due to the holiday weekend. We are 75 days into the 121-day legislative session and…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Anybody but us

Brad Keithley   March 29, 2024

One of the things that has struck us most during the years we have followed Alaska’s fiscal debates – including this week’s debate over…

Ask a Cat: Passive aggressive co-workers, seeking revenge, and dog parks

Cat   March 25, 2024

Problems at work? Love life gone awry? Conflict with the neighbor's collie? The Cat can help. Reach out anonymously here or e-mail askacat@alaskalandmine.com. Dear...

The Sunday Minefield – March 24, 2024

Jeff Landfield   March 24, 2024

The big news this week was the Legislature’s failure, by one vote, to override Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R – Alaska) veto of Senate Bill…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska is leaving future generations with even less than a bare cupboard; that needs to change

Brad Keithley   March 22, 2024

As we read through it, a recent thought piece in The Economist struck us hard. The piece, entitled “Oil’s...

The Sunday Minefield – March 17, 2024

Jeff Landfield   March 17, 2024

We have reached the halfway point of the 121-day constitutional limit for the legislative session. If all goes to plan, the session should be…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our first reaction to the Spring (or any) Revenue Forecast

Brad Keithley   March 15, 2024

On Wednesday, the Department of Revenue (DOR) published its Spring 2024 Revenue Forecast (Spring RF), which is considered a milestone by some in the...

Ask a Cat: Wedding invitations, mustaches, and cat toys

Cat   March 11, 2024

Ever feel like your problems could only be solved by a deeply wise house cat? Have an Ask a Cat sticker shaped hole in...

The Sunday Minefield – March 10, 2024

Jeff Landfield   March 10, 2024

We are approaching the halfway mark of the constitutional 120-day legislative session. The March 14 deadline for Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) to…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Where this Legislature is leading Alaska

Brad Keithley   March 8, 2024

Following the release late last year of Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R - Alaska) proposed Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget, we published two columns looking...

Dimond High School emails parents, locks down social media after Libs of TikTok uncovers teacher’s OnlyFans

Alaska Landmine   March 7, 2024

Sandwiched between videos of students from an Oklahoma school holding feet licking and armpit...

The Sunday Minefield – March 3, 2024

Jeff Landfield   March 3, 2024

I hope everyone in Anchorage has been enjoying Fur Rondy! We are more than halfway through the “90-day” statutory session, but for those paying…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The most disappointing thing about Alaska fiscal policy and how to stop it

Brad Keithley   March 1, 2024

Without question, the single most disappointing thing to us about Alaska fiscal policy over the past decade...

Fairbanks politicians seek to overturn popular citizen tax cap

Aaron Lojewski   February 27, 2024

After a series of special meetings of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly seeking to break the decades-popular “Tax Cap” via a special election...

Ask a Cat: Schadenfreude, divorce, and vegan specials

Cat   February 26, 2024

Cat would just love to tell you what you’re doing wrong and how to fix it. Reach out anonymously here or…

The Sunday Minefield – February 25, 2024

Jeff Landfield   February 26, 2024

It’s the Monday Minefield this week. I have been in Olympia and Seattle this weekend working on a story and had a busy weekend!…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Saying the quiet part out loud

Brad Keithley   February 23, 2024

We were going to write about something else this week, but well-known politico Scott Kendall said something during a Twitter exchange Wednesday that needs...
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