Defending the right to bear arms in Alaska
Bill signing ensures gun stores can stay open during emergencies
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Alaska mayors can’t shut down gun stores during declared emergencies
The signed bill makes if very clear. Second Amendment rights are not to be abridged in Alaska, even during declared emergencies.
No school choice: Anchorage School District reneges on promises made
With just a month before school starts, families who have children enrolled in some charter correspondence programs and private schools were shocked to learn that the Anchorage School District is clawing back their financial allotment for students.
Congress could raise retirement age for commercial pilots to 67
There are pros and cons and each side of this debate has its ambassadors. Is 67 the new 65?
House votes against measure to reinstate pilots fired for refusing Covid vaccine
Between the pilots who got fired for not taking the Covid vaccine, and the pilots who took the vaccine and then had heart irregularities that forced them out of the cockpit, this whole thing adds up to why we have a pilot shortage.
People: Joe Biden finally acknowledges seventh grandchild
The four-year-old girl is finally recognized by her grandfather, after intense pressure, even from Biden’s supporters.

Save the date: Ben Carson will keynote Anchorage event in August
He’s the actual brain surgeon who once ran for president and then became the secretary of HUD under President Trump.
State fights EPA over Pebble and state rights on mining
A brief in the Supreme Court asserts Alaska’s rights over the land where the Pebble deposit is located.

Golden Lion hotel rental contract has loophole for illegal drug use
Read the rental contract and see if you agree that the city is now a landlord to a potential drug den.
Why isn’t Robert F. Kennedy being given Secret Service protection?
His dad was politically assassinated. His uncle was politically assassinated. But the Department of Homeland Security secretary says no to protection. This is Biden’s biggest threat in the Democrat primary and they can’t even give him one guard?
Crypto king who funded Democratic Party won’t face campaign finance felony; DoJ drops charge
The charge: Sam Bankman-Fried stole money from investors and gave it to organizations like the Alaska Democratic Party. One little trick means he won’t have to stand trial for that.
Wasilla: Here are the candidates who filed
Oct. 3 is right around the corner. Mayor Glenda Ledford gets a last-minute challenge from a recognizable Wasilla political name. Who else filed?
Juneau: Ballot set for Oct. 3 election
A lot of candidates filed for the two areawide seats on the Assembly, and also there is that question of whether the voters want to build a new city hall. The Assembly has spent $50,000 to lobby the voters for one.
Filed for office
April Smith, Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board
Britteny Cioni-Haywood, Juneau City and Borough School Board
Lonny R Marney, Fairbanks City of City Council
Michael Humphrey, Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board
Paul R Kelly, Juneau City and Borough Assembly
Doreen Ahgeak Lampe, North Slope Borough
Dianne Kay Shibe, Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board
Thomas F Ojala IV, Palmer City Council
Question of the Week: UFOs - real or not real
This day in history
July 31, 1498, Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad.
Columns
David Blackmon: Texas should look at Alaska to see what Biden Administration can do to you
Downing: Biden’s shifted focus to climate change ignores Americans’ decreasing standard of living
Bidenomics and its evil twin, the climate con game, have infiltrated every facet of the Biden Administration. The ramifications for Americans been a kick in the teeth.
Alex Gimarc: Magical thinking of Sen. Tobin regarding electric vehicles
The author was the unfortunate recipient of a copy of comments sent by Sen. Loki Tobin to Curtis Thayer of the Alaska Energy Authority. It was a very happy letter, gushing over electric vehicles, decarbonization, and calling for AEA to do everything to deploy sufficient charging stations for EVs using free federal energy money.
Downing’s Daily Caller column: Ranked-choice voting gave us this
She said she would be bipartisan … but she votes with The Squad.
Alaska oil: $87.00
Henry Hub gas: $2.64
Alaska North Slope Production: 419,804
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $79,583,800,000
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