With Bronson at the wheel, Anchorage is starting to feel like a clown car
There’s reason to take the latest allegations with a grain of salt but also reason to worry there might be one more fire contributing to all the smoke coming from city hall.
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Early results give Zaletel huge edge over fringe recall effort
The early results from Tuesday’s recall election targeting Anchorage Assemblymember Meg Zaletel shows the effort, which was borne out of the city’s extreme-right circles, failing by more than 20 percentage points.
Bronson manages to both-sides the harassment of health care workers
With reports of rising harassment, threats and physical attacks on health care workers fueled by the very conspiracy theories Bronson has repeated and legitimized with his office in recent weeks, he now claims there’s some very fine people on both sides.
Supermajority support gels on Anchorage Assembly for proposed mask mandate
It’s unclear when the Anchorage Assembly will finally reach a vote on its proposed mask mandate thanks to an outbreak of covid-19 among Bronson’s administration, but when it does it will almost assuredly have a veto-proof supermajority.
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.
Bronson administration’s promotion of recall appears to break election laws
An innocuous-looking alert breaks all sorts of laws and norms. It also happens to be promoting the recall election against one of Bronson’s biggest opponents on the Assembly.
Anchorage Assembly to review Bronson’s Health director early amid pushback, covid surge
David Morgan has already stepped in it over covid, but it’s his time at a non-profit that’s raising some serious questions.
Assemblywoman LaFrance headlines last-minute shakeups of legislative races
The Nov. 3 ballot is set.
Legislators call on state to use Anchorage’s secure drop boxes in the general election
A group of Anchorage Democratic legislators is asking the state to work with the municipality of Anchorage to expand the availability of ballot drop-off boxes…
Croft: We need good ideas from all sides to solve homelessness in Anchorage
Working together, we can achieve real progress on homelessness in Anchorage.