This has been a busy week, more so for Anchorage than Juneau. The Anchorage mayoral race is heating up, Fur Rondy is underway, the Iditarod started, and the Anchorage Caucus met on Saturday at UAA. The Legislature It’s no secret … Read More
If you have ever driven to the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, you have likely noticed the upside down building that sits near Lake Hood. You see it driving on International Airport Road not long after you pass Spenard. It … Read More
Senator Bill Wielechowski (D – Anchorage) made a bold move today during a senate floor session. He motioned for the senate to vote to move his bill, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 1, out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill, … Read More
Today the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce held a candidate forum for the upcoming Anchorage mayoral election. There are nine candidates declared, seven were part of the forum. In reality, there are two viable candidates, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and Rebecca Logan. … Read More
Yesterday I got a call from an Alaska phone number asking if I was registered to vote in Alaska and if I was interested in doing a political survey. She did not know she was talking to Jeff Landfield. The … Read More
Week six of the legislative session has been rather normal compared to the previous five weeks, but still pretty bizarre when compared to previous sessions. And, with the vacant senate and house seats now filled, we are almost back to … Read More
On February 20, the New York Times published a bizarre article by Anchorage columnist Julia O’Malley titled “Finding Produce in Alaska’s Long Winter Takes Wiles and Luck.” The article claims that Anchorage residents suffer from chronic food shortages and must resort to desperate Soviet-bloc-style measures to find produce… Read More
Each week of the legislative session gets stranger and stranger. Week five is no exception. Between the Senate Seat E debacle and a resolution about porn, the characters in Juneau never fail to provide the kind of content Landmine readers … Read More
The Alaska Republican Party has sent four additional names to Governor Walker for consideration for Senate Seat E, the seat Mike Dunleavy recently resigned from. The new names are: Christopher Kurka (Alaska Right to Life guy) Mike Shower (FedEx pilot … Read More
I doubt anyone could have predicted how crazy the Senate Seat E appointment process was going to be. A lot has happened in the last week, and even more has been said about it. There are two conversations happening – … Read More