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This Week In Sanity: Queen of the Plague Rats

This Week In Sanity: Queen of the Plague Rats

I don't know about you, but I am VERY excited to be writing about a group of people hell-bent on facilitating a vaccine-resistant variant of COVID-19. I'm even more excited to be writing about COVID-19 in general. AGAIN!

Executive Director Exits Identity Inc. Board Issues Community Letter

Executive Director Exits Identity Inc. Board Issues Community Letter

In a letter addressed to “Our Community,” the Identity Board of Directors wished Laura Carpenter well in their future endeavors and thanked them for their efforts during a “challenging year.” You can read the Board of Directors Community Letter which was emailed and posted to the organization's Facebook

Video: Jasmine Boyle, Executive Director of Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness

Video: Jasmine Boyle, Executive Director of Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness

Jasmine Boyle, Executive Director of Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, spoke about homelessness in Anchorage at last night's homelessness event sponsored by Rep. Ivy Spohnholz (D-Anchorage).

Native Leaders Submit Ballot Initiative

Native Leaders Submit Ballot Initiative

This week, a non-partisan group of Alaskan Native leaders submitted a ballot measure application to Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer that would have the State acknowledge the 229 Federally-recognized Tribes of Alaska. The historic initiative would strengthen the government-to-government relationship

Second Anti-Vax Mandate "Rally" to be Held

Second Anti-Vax Mandate "Rally" to be Held

A flyer shared with the "Save Anchorage" group of political activists says that another anti-vaccine mandate rally will be held on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at 5 pm in front of the Alaska Native Health Campus.

ACLU of Alaska Announces Longtime Local Advocate, Lawyer as Interim Executive Director

ACLU of Alaska Announces Longtime Local Advocate, Lawyer as Interim Executive Director

Alaska ACLU Press Release The ACLU of Alaska’s board of directors has chosen longtime Anchorage-based attorney and advocate, Susan Orlansky, as the part-time interim executive director for the civil liberties organization. Orlansky will lead the ACLU of Alaska team until the board selects a permanent executive director. Orlansky has

Clinical Update: Vaccine Mandates & Vaccine Resistant Variants

Clinical Update: Vaccine Mandates & Vaccine Resistant Variants

This week's Clinical Update released by Alaska DHSS has some interesting information in it—not that it doesn't typically, it's just that this week it has a little something extra that's certain to cause a high degree of mouth-frothing amongst social media scientists and constitutional scholars.