The 2020 general election has come and gone. Well, kind of. Alaska has yet to count its absentee votes, which number over 100,000 or nearly 40% of the total vote. More on that later. While there are many races that … Read More

Below is a YouTube embed to our live election coverage for the 2020 general. It is also being streamed on Facebook Live [Part 1] [Part 2] and on KONR 106.1 in Anchorage. Thanks to our sponsors (GCI, Dittman Research, Alaskans … Read More

Today is the 2020 Alaska general election! Landmine staff went through all of the races in the state as well as the two ballot initiatives. Here are our thoughts and predictions. After reading, let us know your thoughts and why … Read More

We write because Alaskans urgently need to know the truth about Ballot Measure 2. Much has been written about the well-documented dangers of ranked choice voting – thrown-out ballot…… Read More

In the final week of this election season, Alaska has once again become ground zero for virtually untraceable campaign spending and nasty attack ads designed to influence our votes. If you’re anything like me, you’re in awe of the piles … Read More

You can’t talk Alaska without talking oil. It’s one of those ever-present inextricable truths. Wisconsin has cheese. California has Hollywood. And we have swaths of land with black gold churning underneath. Ever since we sunk our first oil well in Katalla there’s been debate over how to manage…… Read More

Well we are almost there. Just two days until Election Day! Candidates all over the state are doing their last minute pushes to get out the vote. At this point we are nearing 50% of the 2016 turnout from absentee … Read More

Welcome to this week’s 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

This is long and complicated, but important. Tonight, the Anchorage Assembly will make some very big decisions that will impact land and housing development in Anchorage for years to come. For such a high stakes vote, there has been little … Read More

Brett Huber and I do not see eye to eye on almost anything. He is a Republican. I am a Democrat. He ran Mike Dunleavy’s campaign for governor. I ran Mark Begich’s. But we do agree, Ballot Measure 2 would … Read More