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

Shoshana Gungurstein is one of nineteen U.S. Senate candidates running in the August 16 open primary, facing off against incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski… Read More

Early and absentee voting are underway for the August 16 primary. It’s hard to believe the primary is just over one week away. I’m very excited to announce we will be hosting an election night live stream at our studio … Read More

In an unprecedented move, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson issued an executive order Saturday empowering him to dismiss sitting members of the Anchorage Assembly. Bronson’s move followed a contentious effort by the liberal-majority Assembly to codify the procedure for removing an … Read More

Welcome to this edition of the Alaska Stalker, a lighthearted round up of the best and worst of Alaska’s social media landscape. If you enjoy the Alaska Stalker, please consider supporting working moms like me by sending in…… Read More

Sometimes the inspiration for these weekly columns comes from comments made by readers. This week’s…… Read More