The Sunday Minefield – January 24, 2021
January 24, 2021
The first session of the 32nd Alaska Legislature began this week. The Senate was finally able organize a majority on the first day. The…
Sunday Minefields
The Sunday Minefield – January 17, 2021
Jeff Landfield January 17, 2021
The start of the 32nd Alaska Legislature is just two days away. Both the House and Senate have still failed to organize. It seems…
The Sunday Minefield – January 10, 2021
Jeff Landfield January 10, 2021
This has been a bad week for our country. The storming of the U.S. Capitol was hard to watch. It felt more like watching…
The Sunday Minefield – January 3, 2021
Jeff Landfield January 3, 2021
2020 is finally over! Hopefully 2021 will be better for all of us. The 32nd Alaska Legislature is set to gavel in on January…
The Sunday Minefield – December 27, 2020
Jeff Landfield December 27, 2020
This is the last Sunday column of 2020. Christmas is over and the New Year is only five days away. In some ways this…
The Sunday Minefield – December 20, 2020
Jeff Landfield December 20, 2020
Christmas is just five days away! And New Years is just around the corner. Pretty soon it will be January and 2020 will be…
The Sunday Minefield – December 13, 2020
Jeff Landfield December 13, 2020
2020 will be behind us in a few weeks. Thank God for that. The big news this week was Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R -…
The Sunday Minefield – December 6, 2020
Jeff Landfield December 6, 2020
2021 is less than a month away. I think it’s safe to say we are all happy to put 2020 behind us. This week…
The Sunday Minefield – November 29, 2020
Jeff Landfield November 29, 2020
Thanksgiving has come and gone. I hope everyone had a good one in this strange time of COVID. December is almost here, which means…
The Sunday Minefield – November 22, 2020
Jeff Landfield November 22, 2020
Thanksgiving is just four days away! As COVID cases continue to spike around Alaska, Thanksgiving this year will look very different for many families….
The Sunday Minefield – November 15, 2020
Jeff Landfield November 15, 2020
It’s been almost two weeks since the election and we still don’t know the outcome of several races. A count update today from the…
The Sunday Minefield – November 8, 2020
Jeff Landfield November 8, 2020
The 2020 general election has come and gone. Well, kind of. Alaska has yet to count its absentee votes, which number over 100,000 or…
The Sunday Minefield – November 1, 2020
Jeff Landfield November 1, 2020
Well we are almost there. Just two days until Election Day! Candidates all over the state are doing their last minute pushes to get…
The Sunday Minefield – October 25, 2020
Jeff Landfield October 25, 2020
The November 3 general election is just over a week away. High numbers of absentee ballots and in-person early votes continue. Just like the…
The Sunday Minefield – October 18, 2020
Jeff Landfield October 18, 2020
What a week in Alaska politics. The scandal with Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and reporter Maria Athens went from a weird thing in Anchorage…
The Sunday Minefield – October 11, 2020
Jeff Landfield October 11, 2020
What a wild week. Between Suzanne Downing's crazy Facebook Live video at a Republican fundraiser and the wild Maria Athens scandal, it was a...
The Sunday Minefield – October 4, 2020
Jeff Landfield October 4, 2020
October has arrived. The general election is less than a month away. Things are about to get very loose. The first tranche of in-state…
The Sunday Minefield – September 27, 2020
Jeff Landfield September 27, 2020
October is just a few days away. The snow will be here before we know it. As weeks go in Alaska, this one was…
The Sunday Minefield – September 20, 2020
Jeff Landfield September 20, 2020
The first tranche of overseas absentee ballots went out on Friday. This was after the week was consumed over a lawsuit against the Division…
The Sunday Minefield – September 13, 2020
Jeff Landfield September 13, 2020
Fall is definitely in the air. The snow will be here before we know it. The November 3 general election is just over seven…