The Alaska Landmine is hosting a live town hall today on Anchorage’s snow plowing failure. We want to hear from you! For in-person participation, you can come to our Anchorage studio. The address is: 2518 E Tudor Road, Suite 100 … Read More

If there were no Permanent Fund earnings, there would be no Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). But there also would be no Permanent Fund earnings to help pay for government spending. Instead, Alaskans would have to pay for spending directly through taxes.… Read More

After two storms dumped record snowfall in Anchorage, residents have been struggling with the effects of inadequate plowing by the Municipality of…… Read More

The big news of the week in Southcentral was the first snowstorm of the year, and the absolute failure to adequately plow the roads in Anchorage (see this week’s Loose Unit for more on that). I am writing this kind of late because I just did a live stream driving around Anchorage showing just how bad it is.… Read More

An op-ed published on the pages of the Anchorage Daily News last week written by Representative Alyse Galvin (I – Anchorage) and co-signed by the remaining members of the Alaska House Coalition urged the Legislature to take a number of steps to increase…… Read More

Four years ago, I wrote about the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Martin v. City of Boise. In that case, a…… Read More

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 via a form (anonymous) to get the answers to any of life’s problems. Dear Cat, My wife … Read More

Winter has finally arrived as much of Southcentral was hit with snow this weekend. The start of the next legislative session is just over two months away. The Anchorage Housing Action Week, sponsored by the Anchorage Assembly, was held this … Read More

We have a crisis on our hands; more and more motor vehicles are getting larger and larger, going faster and faster, and making it next to impossible for non-motorized folk to cross any street, road, boulevard, avenue, parkway, or drive. Five and six lane “stroads” (a term coined by Charles Marohn, who just spoke in Anchorage), are a dominating fixture of the Anchorage transportation network…… Read More

Fundamental to the operation of any market economy is the relatively unfettered operation of supply and demand in finding an equilibrium price for the…… Read More