President-elect Joe Biden is going to sign an executive order placing a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Must Read Alaska has learned. It will be among Biden’s initial acts on his first day of office and [...]
The Alaska Senate Republicans have announced their leadership organization with the following senators: Shelley Hughes, Majority LeaderMia Costello, WhipGary Stevens, RulesFinance co-chairs: Bert Stedman and Click BishopPresident, Peter Micciche The caucus is based on the principle of a “Caucus of [...]
The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it signed and issued leases on nine of the tracts that received qualifying bids from the first-ever oil and gas lease sale for the Coastal Plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This means the BLM has [...]
Democrats in the Alaska Senate were first to announce that they are in the minority, with the 13 Republicans in the Alaska Senate organizing a majority. The organization makes Peter Micciche of Kenai the Senate President. Micciche has been been [...]
According to national news sources, two members of the National Guard have been removed from duties surrounding the inauguration of Joe Biden. The New York Times says they had “links to right-wing extremist movements,” citing a Pentagon official who declined [...]
Some of the youngest students returning to classes today in Anchorage will enter a dystopian classroom world, where they must kneel for hours on end on the floor while masked, and have no recess or art or physical expression. Pre-K–2, [...]
Photographing sasquatch art by Tim Bower.Q: What are the guidelines for safely and respectfully photographing Sasquatch? A: Cryptid photography is dangerous and should only be attempted by hardcore professionals. Each year, we lose dozens of squatch photographers in the Alaska [...]
The 1776 Commission, created by executive order of President Donald Trump and comprised of scholars and historians, released its report rebutting reckless “re-education” attempts, such as the New York Times’ 1619 project, which seek to reframe American history around the [...]
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson announced on Facebook that, as of Jan. 15 it has banned the sale of alcohol on base between 10 pm and 5 am, in an effort to reduce suicide attempts and to generally lessen consumption. The announcement [...]
Until proven otherwise, many legislative observers are saying that Alexei Painter, the young director of the Alaska Legislative Finance Division for the past five months, is the real deal: A knowledgeable, politically neutral, good-faith analyst working to inform the Legislature [...]
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN RETAIN THEIR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL I just finished reading a very disturbing story in Must Read Alaska that said Major General William Walker, Adjutant General of the District of Columbia National Guard, stated that National Guardsmen [...]
Most civilians would be forgiven if they believed that when you join the National Guard, you’re vetted for fitness, patriotism, and duty to country, and that you wouldn’t have to be re-vetted for patriotism and duty prior to an assignment. [...]
File this under idle speculation: COVID could end up saving the State of Alaska millions of dollars. That’s because COVID-19 kills off the elderly more aggressively than other groups. NPR reports that due to COVID-19 deaths last year, life expectancy [...]
The Alaska National Guard deploying to Washington, D.C. to guard the incoming president during the inauguration. But it’s typical for Alaska to send National Guardsmen — as a custom, they come from every state during inaugurations. About 8,000 National Guard members were [...]
In addition to a major show of police force at Tuesday’s Anchorage Assembly meeting, Must Read Alaska has learned through a law enforcement source that a SWAT team was stationed, locked-and-loaded, and ready to roll just two miles away. SWAT [...]
Republicans caucusing in Alaska’s Capitol have been kicked out of the Fahrenkamp and Butrovich committee rooms (203 and 205), based on a complaint made by the Senate secretary about some of them not wearing masks. The complaint was made by [...]
This smoked salmon galette recipe makes a mouthwatering dish ready to eat at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Photo by Andrew Maxwell. Alaskans have relied on salmon for millennia. It is possibly the most important animal to Alaska’s rich history. For [...]
The House Republicans issued a press release on Saturday afternoon, saying all 20 Republican are sticking together. There are actually 21 Republicans in the House, but Kodiak’s Louise Stutes has said she would not caucus with the Republicans, which has [...]
She may no longer be chair of the powerful Energy and Natural Resources Committee as of Jan. 20, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski is landing on her feet. Alaska’s senior senator has been named the chair of the Congressional Fire Services [...]
The U.S. State Department says that in the autumn of 2019, before the first identified case of COVID-19, several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick with an illness that may have been COVID-19. “This raises questions about [...]
Friday was the first day when candidates for Anchorage mayor could officially file for office. At 10 am, Dave Bronson arrived at City Hall with his wife Deb Bronson, and campaign manager Bernadette Wilson. Bronson is running for mayor. He [...]
If you are going somewhere rugged and wild and need a camera backpack, check out the Gitzo Adventury. I’m hard on cameras. Sometimes it seems like I can destroy a camera just by looking at it, so I was excited [...]
According to a memo from the governor’s chief of staff, a number of State of Alaska offices will be closed to the public this coming Monday through Thursday, Jan. 21, in an abundance of caution as unrest continues in response [...]
The petition to recall Anchorage Assembly Chairman Felix Rivera has enough valid signatures to place the question on the April 6 ballot. The only thing that can stop it now is the lawsuit that Rivera filed on Jan. 5 to [...]
The second tranche of legislative bills filed in advance of the 32nd Alaska Legislature was released Friday by the . It includes a few that were bills not taken up during the last two years, such as the one from [...]
The Palin and Heath families are in mourning after Sarah Palin’s mother, Sarah “Sally” Heath, died on Tuesday at the age of 80. The news was shared by Sarah Palin on social media, and Bristol Palin, Sally Heath’s granddaughter, who has [...]
No place else offers the cinematic expanse and grandeur of Denali National Park, making it the ideal location for a film festival highlighting land, adventure, and environmental responsibility. The founder of the Denali Film Festival, Kimberly Braun, grew up in [...]
The Anchorage Assembly has passed a resolution setting up a government-to-government relationship that acknowledges the sovereignty of the Village of Eklutna. The village will now formally take up its own resolution to reflect the agreement, said Aaron Leggett, village president [...]
Leading up to the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a handful of airlines will prohibit guns being shipped in checked luggage. The gun ban from Alaska, United, and Delta appears to apply only to flights to Washington, D.C., [...]
TREE OF LIBERTY WEBSITE IS NOW ‘RICKROLL’ SITE After a national group named the Dimond Center mall in South Anchorage as a site for an armed-but-peaceful protest on Sunday, the mall owners have decided to close the mall and parking [...]
It’s no longer part of the Alaska Marines Highway fleet and hasn’t been for generations, but the old Chilkat ferry continues its journey, for now, underwater. The vessel broke free from its moorings in Anacortes, Wash. on Tuesday during a [...]
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL The past 24 hours will go down in history as one of America’s darkest periods. Raw political power by Democrats who are about to hold absolute power of our nation, making a mockery of our Constitution by [...]
After he was included in a social media mention by a news organization as likely to vote to convict President Donald Trump, Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan issued a statement making it clear he has not taken a position. Alaska’s former [...]
By ART CHANCEI spent a lot of the 1980s and 1990s riding airplanes and sleeping on floors or in hotel rooms for federal and state governments. I read a lot of what I styled “airplane riding books.” I have every Tom [...]
Congressman Don Young stood with the majority of Republicans who voted against the hastily drawn articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The impeachment articles did pass, however, with 10 Republicans voting with all the Democrats to impeach on one [...]
A resolution condemning violence in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 was vigorously debated during the Anchorage Assembly meeting on Tuesday, after conservatives in the room took issue with the way it blames Trump supporters, and won’t acknowledge that Alaskans [...]
Citizens testifying at the Anchorage Assembly meeting read aloud the list of businesses in Anchorage that have died due to the shutdown orders that have continued for the better part of a year. In protest of extending the emergency authority [...]
Volcanic eruptions on the Seward Peninsula formed maars, like Devil Mountain Maar pictured here, that are larger than those found anywhere else on Earth. NPS photo. Volcanoes in Alaska are most often associated with the Ring of Fire, which stretches [...]
By GLENN CLARY Republicans will never give up or give in. Although we suffered a couple of election losses in 2020, our political spirits remain steadfast and resolute to our fundamental principles. We are the party of the Constitution, of [...]
WILL MAYOR’S EMERGENCY POWERS BE EXTENDED? The experts agreed: After Thanksgiving and Christmas-New Year, a huge spike in COVID-19 cases would swarm across the land, similar to the rises of the known cases that occurred after Memorial Day and July [...]
The Alaska Judicial Council has released the names of the seven applicants for the vacancy on the Alaska Supreme Court. Interviews of the applicants will take place in May, 2021 by the council’s seven-member body, made up of the Chief [...]
The Anchorage Assembly will be voting on a package of bonds on Tuesday that will be placed on the April 6 ballot. The bonds total approximately $60 million and come with a mechanism to bypass the tax cap, because if [...]
The order by President Donald Trump regarding security of the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal assistance to supplement the District’s [...]
The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program officially reopened on Jan. 11. The agency is accepting what “first-draw” loans from small businesses that have not yet gotten a PPP loan. Those small businesses must work through lenders the government categorizes [...]
Editor: I recently wrote an open letter advocating for reopening our businesses and refocusing our city’s resources on helping both the employees and employers hurting from the shutdown. When I first read some of the comments in the ADN, I [...]
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. should be placed on the TSA “no fly” list, for their part in challenging the Electoral College, said the House Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security. Rep. [...]
Using unnamed sources, all mainstream media is reporting the same thing, that the FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The [...]
The Dimond Center, Alaska’s biggest mall, says that a planned protest on Jan. 17 may not take place on its premises in Anchorage. Dimond Center management issued a public statement about a nationwide rally that organizers are planning for that [...]
By: CRAIG E. CAMPBELL I had the pleasure of representing the Alaska Republican Party at the 2021 Republican National Committee Winter Meeting last week. When I arrived on the evening of Jan. 5, I went to bed pleased to see both [...]
The Green Party’s National Committee on Monday removed accreditation from the Green Party of Alaska, after Alaska’s party went rogue and nominated Jesse Ventura for president and Cynthia McKinney for Vice President in 2020. The Green Party disaffiliation from Alaska’s [...]
