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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…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Is the Governor telling Wall Street something different than Alaskans?

Brad Keithley   August 11, 2023

In a recent press release, Governor Mike Dunleavy (R - Alaska) and Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum...

The hypocrisy of woke women calling on Chris Tuck to step aside

Jeff Landfield and Allison Hovanec   August 9, 2023

The Alaska Current recently published an opinion piece by several Anchorage women contrasting Anchorage mayoral candidate Chris Tuck and one of his opponents, Suzanne LaFrance. Tuck,...

The Sunday Minefield – August 6, 2023

Jeff Landfield   August 6, 2023

It’s already August. Summer is really flying by. The upcoming April Anchorage mayoral race is starting to heat up with some more campaign kickoff…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Whose money are we speculating with?

Brad Keithley   August 4, 2023

A recent article in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman dredged up some old memories about past “big” capital projects, which, in turn, is causing us...

It’s time to finally build the Knik Arm bridge

Jeff Landfield   August 3, 2023

I moved to Alaska in August 2004. I remember hearing something about a bridge across Knik Arm not long after arriving. It's been 19...

Ask a Cat: Venting, dog poop, and sibling rivalry

Cat   July 31, 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 – July 30, 2023

Jeff Landfield   July 30, 2023

August is just two days away. Summer is really flying by. A zoning ordinance before the Anchorage Assembly has created a lot of controversy,...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The $100,000 Dividend

Brad Keithley   July 28, 2023

Last month we wrote a couple of columns on these pages discussing the Tax Avoidance Dividend (or TAD). The TAD is the flip side...

Trial underway for Furie, oil and gas company who doesn’t want to pay property taxes

Jeff Landfield   July 26, 2023

The trial for Furie's property tax dispute with the State of Alaska and Kenai Peninsula Borough began yesterday in Anchorage. Judge Herman Walker is...

Ask a Cat: Contractors, crushes, and wedding behavior

Cat   July 24, 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 here to submit...

The Sunday Minefield – July 23, 2023

Jeff Landfield   July 23, 2023

This has undoubtedly been the best weather we have had over a weekend in Southcentral this summer. The thermometer in my office is currently…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: “Who pays” is a co-equal fiscal issue

Brad Keithley   July 21, 2023

One of the most troubling aspects of Alaska state fiscal policy is the failure of policymakers and others regularly to consider the issue of...
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