The Sunday Minefield – December 18, 2022
December 18, 2022
Christmas is just one week away! After most of us in Southcentral finally dug out multiple feet of snow from three storms in a…
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The Sunday Minefield – January 22, 2023
Jeff Landfield January 22, 2023
The first session of the 33rd Alaska Legislature got underway in Juneau on Tuesday. All but one of Alaska’s 60 legislators were sworn in. Senator Mike Shower (R – Alaska) has been absent all week and has not provided an explanation as to why. Rather than waiting weeks into session for the House to organize – which happened after…
The Sunday Minefield – December 11, 2022
Jeff Landfield December 11, 2022
Round two of the big snow dump continues to fall in much of Southcentral, and just as most of the roads were finally plowed….
The Sunday Minefield – December 4, 2022
Jeff Landfield December 4, 2022
It’s already December. Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas and New Years will be here before we know it. The Alaska House remains…
The Sunday Minefield – November 27, 2022
Jeff Landfield November 27, 2022
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving with friends and family. Christmas will be here before we know it. Several undetermined races were decided…
The Sunday Minefield – November 20, 2022
Jeff Landfield November 20, 2022
Thanksgiving is only four days away! It’s almost two weeks past Election Day and results are still being updated. Because of the nature of…
The Sunday Minefield – November 13, 2022
Jeff Landfield November 13, 2022
The 2022 general election has come and gone. But tens of thousands of absentee and early votes remain to be counted and we won’t…
The Sunday Minefield – November 6, 2022
Jeff Landfield November 6, 2022
The general election is just two days away! According to the Division of Elections, more than 64,000 Alaskans have already early voted in-person or…
The Sunday Minefield – October 30, 2022
Jeff Landfield October 30, 2022
It’s hard to believe but the November general election is just nine days away! More than 28,000 Alaskans have already voted. As expected, there…
The Sunday Minefield – October 23, 2022
Jeff Landfield October 23, 2022
The general election is just over two weeks away. People are already absentee voting and early in-person voting starts tomorrow. The Alaska Federation of…
The Sunday Minefield – October 16, 2022
Jeff Landfield October 16, 2022
The November election is just over three weeks away. Absentee ballots are already hitting Alaska mailboxes and early in-person voting starts on October 24….
The Sunday Minefield – October 9, 2022
Jeff Landfield October 9, 2022
The general election is less than a month away. Thirty-day Alaska Public Offices Commission campaign finance reports, which show much money gubernatorial and legislative…
The Sunday Minefield – October 2, 2022
Jeff Landfield October 3, 2022
Sorry about the delay. It’s the Monday Minefield this week. t’s just over five weeks until the November 8 general election and it oddly…
The Sunday Minefield – September 25, 2022
Jeff Landfield September 25, 2022
Fall is definitely in the air. The November 8 general election is just over six weeks away. The big political news this week is…
The Sunday Minefield – September 18, 2022
Jeff Landfield September 18, 2022
The big, and tragic, news this week is the remnants of the large Typhoon Merbok that is hitting Western Alaska hard. With just weeks…
The Sunday Minefield – September 11, 2022
Jeff Landfield September 11, 2022
It’s a sad day because it’s the twenty first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It doesn’t feel like it has been that long…