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The Sunday Minefield – September 17, 2023

Jeff Landfield   September 17, 2023

I was a bit checked out this week as I was on a Holland America cruise from Whittier to Vancouver. Those deals for Alaska residents at the end of the season are really good! Tragically, this week Representative Mary Peltola (D – Alaska) lost her husband, Eugene ‘Buzzy’ Peltola Jr., in a plane crash in Western Alaska. You can read…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling 10-year average oil price

Brad Keithley
September 15, 2023

Ask a Cat: Complicated relationships, annoying cats, and job problems

Cat
September 11, 2023

The Sunday Minefield – September 10, 2023

Jeff Landfield
September 10, 2023

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account

Brad Keithley
September 8, 2023

Permanent Fund emails shed more light into Barnhill resignation, but raise more questions

Jeff Landfield   September 7, 2023

In early August, Mike Barnhill abruptly resigned as chief operating office at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). Barnhill started with APCF in...

Ask a Cat: Death, free will, and cat business

Cat   September 4, 2023

Ask a cat is an advice column featured in the Alaska Landmine. Have a question for the Cat? Email askacat@alaskalandmine.com or click…

The Sunday Minefield – September 3, 2023

Jeff Landfield   September 3, 2023

It’s Labor Day weekend! Which means summer is, unfortunately, coming to and end. Tomorrow is also the last day of the Alaska State Fair….

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The misleading narrative and its consequences

Brad Keithley   September 1, 2023

In a recent article carried by Alaska Public Media, reporter Robert Woolsey references Senator Bert Stedman (R - Sitka) in concluding that overdraws...

Free standing emergency rooms are not a field of dreams

Dr. Brian Sweeney   August 29, 2023

Do you remember not so long ago when Alaska Regional Hospital ran a campaign called, “Get treated, not seated?” The thrust of the campaign...

Ask a Cat: Affairs, slobs, and exes

Cat   August 28, 2023

Ask a cat is an advice column featured in the Alaska Landmine. Have a question for the Cat? Email askacat@alaskalandmine.com or click…

The Sunday Minefield – August 27, 2023

Jeff Landfield   August 27, 2023

Labor Day is in eight days, which means fall is just around the corner. I know we are all trying to enjoy as much…

Seeking to block Fish Creek Trail Connection, members of prominent Anchorage family apply to lease public railroad land

Paxson Woelber   August 25, 2023

Anchorage planners have long sought to connect Spenard's Fish Creek Trail to the Coastal Trail, better integrating the neighborhood with the city's extensive multiuse...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Looking at the most recent IRS data

Brad Keithley   August 25, 2023

Readers of these columns will know that we regularly analyze the distributional impact of various fiscal measures – taxes, cuts in the Permanent Fund…

Ask a Cat: Travel anxiety, dating, and the Anchorage mayoral race

Cat   August 21, 2023

Ask a cat is an advice column featured in the Alaska Landmine. Have a question for the Cat? Email askacat@alaskalandmine.com or click…

The Sunday Minefield – August 20, 2023

Jeff Landfield   August 20, 2023

September is less than two weeks away. Summer is really flying by. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Alaska this week, spending time in...

Drugs, violence, and prostitution: A glimpse inside Anchorage’s largest homeless camp

Jeff Landfield   August 20, 2023

Two years ago I spent a night at the Sullivan Arena mass shelter. It is still difficult to convey in words what I experienced...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s how – and how much of the – PFD cuts are ending up in the bank accounts of non-residents & oil companies

Brad Keithley   August 18, 2023

Over the course of the past few months, we have...

Ask a Cat: Relationships, marriage, and bike lanes

Cat   August 14, 2023

Ask a cat is an advice column featured in the Alaska Landmine. Have a question for the Cat? Email askacat@alaskalandmine.com or click…

The Sunday Minefield – August 13, 2023

Jeff Landfield   August 13, 2023

A fall special session aimed at adopting fiscal reforms, that seemed inevitable during the legislative session, is not going to happen. The Anchorage mayor’s…
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