“Keep your hand on your gun, Don’t you trust anyone. There’s just one kind of man that you can trust, that’s a dead man, or a gringo like me.” – Ennio Morricone, “A Gringo Like Me” I need an AR-15. … Read More

In our column a couple of weeks ago we looked at how much oil production would need to increase to…… Read More

This November, voters have a once in a decade opportunity to vote to hold a constitutional convention. We should take that opportunity. The Legislature has proved to be incapable of making the necessary adjustments to our new economic and fiscal … Read More

The 2022 primary is just two days away! Summer sure is flying by. Make sure to check out our primary election coverage on Tuesday night. We will be streaming our coverage on Facebook Live and YouTube. Many candidates are working … Read More

Alaska has always had a reputation for outsider candidates who don’t quite fit into a category, and who make a name for themselves through esoteric…… Read More

We are excited to again be providing live coverage for Tuesday’s primary. Tune in to watch the Landmine’s Jeff Landfield, former Representative Charisse Millett, and pollster Ivan Moore interview candidates and provide election results and analysis. We will be…… Read More

Often when we look at the distributional impact of various Alaska funding options we use the analysis developed by the Institute on Taxation and…… Read More

During a Native Peoples Action candidate forum earlier today, Republican U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin was zoom bombed with a drawing of a large…… Read More

On Monday, the Landmine published a story, “Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Shoshana Gungurstein is actually Hollywood actress Shoshanna Chagall.”… Read More

On April 26, 1886, more than two decades after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, a Haida man named Sah Quah entered a United States courtroom in Sitka. A judge later described him as “sad spectacle” of a man, with mutilated ears and a missing eye. Sah Quah’s English was limited, but it would be impossible to ignore the gravity of his allegations: that he had been captured by the Flathead Indians and sold into slavery as a child, trafficked up a Northwest Coast slave-trading network, and was currently enslaved to a Tlingit man in Sitka named Nah-Ki-Klan. Sah Quah had come to the American court, he said, to seek “papers” freeing him from his bonds.… Read More