The extreme right is growing more extreme
There, it’s abundantly clear that the rhetoric on the extreme right is only growing more extreme—and doing so quickly—even as cases of covid-19 continue to fall.
Opinions
RETTIG: Oil, it’s time to date other people
You can almost hear the sighs of relief across Alaska each time oil prices tick up. This is good for Alaska, right? Actually, no. Because instead of forcing us to diversify our economy. This blip allows us to kick back, relax, and continue our monogamous relationship with oil–when we really need to be dating around.
As legal challenges to Alaska’s redistricting plan take shape, past rulings offer key insight
The last round of redistricting lawsuits didn’t do much to answer the question of what precisely a compact, contiguous and relatively socioeconomically integrated district should look like.
Alaska Redistricting Board shows its ugly, partisan colors with boost to Eagle River
“I will say that there are times when you just have to say the emperor has no clothes and I think today is one of those days.”
Grifty, conspiratorial and anti-science. The vaccine-skeptic summit was peak Bronson.
It’s largely a masterclass in manipulation: I’m letting you in on a secret; They are not telling you the truth; We’re just pursuing the Truth.
TMS Publisher: Bronson Recall is misguided when Assembly races loom
It will waste resources better spent on other efforts. And it will jeopardize the progressive majority on the Anchorage Assembly.
The special session trudges to its logical, pointless conclusion
Save for a handful of hearings by the underappreciated House Ways and Means Committee, the special session has done little except wear out what little patience remains in the Legislature, run up per diem payments and drive a wedge between the already-related-in-name-only moderate and far-right Republicans.
Hate-filled backlash is making it harder to want to run for office. And that’s the point.
Its’ becoming increasingly clear that the plan is to make the job of serving the public so difficult and hostile that it’ll drive away anyone not ready to rubberstamp Bronson’s agenda.
Gara: We need smart leadership, not false rhetoric, to end this pandemic
We need to work with leaders and experts from local communities, to calmly get people in those communities the truth instead of riling up opposition to safe practices. This week the Governor did the opposite, writing an Op-Ed blaming others for this state’s mounting illness and death toll. He painted a rosy picture of where Alaska is. Here are facts he left out in praising the job he’s done.
Josephson: The recall targeting Meg Zaletel is the height of silliness
Folks, this is the height of silliness. It’s as obvious as the coming of winter to Alaska.