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This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

 I started a long post trying to show that homelessness isn't a local issue.  Well, sure, the impact is local, but the main causes are o...

 Our mail in ballots came several days ago.  The primary is August 12.  It's an open primary - all the names will be on the ballot and t...

 I wrote a couple of posts strongly defending Biden staying as the Democratic presidential candidate ( for example. )  I had several serious...

I'm going to comment on how two articles in Saturday's LA Times distort the moment by how they word things.   1. Comparing North Kor...

 I was in sunny Anchorage yesterday, not in the path of the eclipse.  But in 2019 my daughter invited us to meet her and her family to see a...

This video is very dramatic and easy to follow.  Its findings seem in the ballpark with other such information I've seen.   Nevertheless...

James Brooks reported in the Alaska Beacon and APRN that the Alaska Redistricting Board met Friday October 13 to approve a $400,000 paymen...

Demon Copperhead won a Pulitzer Prize and has had lots of publicity so I won't add much to what's out there, only to note some simil...

 Despite three different topics in the title, this isn't going to be a long post. 1.  It's ok for firefighters, but not for the hung...

 My phone asked me to log in with my Apple ID today.  On a whim, I tried Air Drop after and it worked.  So, in what I hope is a long window,...

[I first posted most of this when Board went into Executive Session.  Now I've added their motion and vote in public session after ES fi...

I got an email from the Alaska Redistricting Board (I subscribed to the email list long ago) announcing a zoom meeting Thursday to discuss p...

Are the Alaska State Officers Compensation Commission pay raise recommendations for the governor, his commissioners, and the legislature rea...