Buckle up: Here comes 2024
Anchorage Museum institutes race-based admission fee structure: Natives are free.
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Your Must Read Alaska editor is back from spending a few weeks in Rome and Florence, where it was fascinating to ponder the once-mighty Roman Empire and how it compares and contrasts to our own nation in 2024. It is going to be a wild year, but after 2023’s crazy ride, I’m not making many public predictions. Stick with us here at Must Read Alaska and we’ll do our best to sort it out and keep the mainstream media on its toes.
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Anchorage Museum institutes race-based admission
Alaska Natives are unable to pay any admission at the door of the Anchorage Museum, where they get in free because the museum believes it is on stolen land. Tribalism rules at Democrat-run institutions. Welcome to Alaska’s new racism.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District looks to the Legislature to backfill its budget hole
The Anchorage School District has issued a proforma budget for its fiscal year 2025 (school year 2024-2025) to get out of the fiscal mess it made by not calibrating spending with actual enrollment.
Grand juries, a constitutional safeguard against public corruption
If you ever wondered why a group of Alaskans is so determined to restore the grand jury process in Alaska, this will get you caught up.
Soldotna’s Saturday drag queen story hour for children has been postponed
The organizers realized that they had gotten on the last nerve of Kenai residents and they’d best pull back — for now.
Ship with tons of lithium batteries remains holed up in Alaska bay as storm rages
A huge storm in the Gulf is making it necessary for the ship to continue to shelter, and the crew is monitoring it for heat.
Old-timers head back to workforce: Report
They retired, but Bidenomics has been bringing them back to the job site, as older Americans can't afford to leave the workforce.
Alaska case at Supreme Court to test public employee right to not pay union membership dues
A refresher on a case that takes Janus to the next level. Can the government force its workers to pay union dues to public employee unions?
We appreciate all generous Alaskans who keep this conservative enterprise going!
Biden asks high court to allow Border Patrol to cut Texas’ razor wire installed on border by state’s Operation Lone Star
Biden’s sweeping rule changes could wipe out women’s sports
Chinese batteries at Camp Lejeune disconnected after lawmakers raise security concerns
Disgraced: Harvard president resigns, claims victimhood
California now offers free health insurance to illegal immigrants
Commerce clause: New California law mandates sizes of pig pens in other states
Who has filed
Cody Anderson, Republican, has filed for the seat that is a special election for Eagle River’s Assembly position.
Mark H. Littlefield, Republican, also filed for the Eagle River Assembly seat.
Question of the week is on break.
This day in history
Jan. 5, 1985, the federal government transferred the ownership of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska.
Columns
Scott Ogan: Top 10 ‘left fork-in-the-road’ policy proposals
An analysis of some bills that are left over from last year that are decidedly leftist.
Bob Bird: Recon and the 14th Amendment
An analysis by the chair of the Alaskan Independence Party.
Todd Lindley: Storage to shortage — The Cook Inlet natural gas crisis
History of how natural gas has been managed and how the Alaska public is being played on carbon.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel and United States are close friends
Alaska oil: $$77.67
Henry Hub gas: $2.82
Alaska North Slope Production: 427,015
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $78,408,400,000
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