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Anchorage Assembly Leadership sends records and retention request to Bronson administration

Anchorage Assembly Leadership sends records and retention request to Bronson administration

Anchorage Assembly Leadership sent a records and retention request today asking Director Dahl and Municipal Attorney Bergt for emails, documents and other material related to allegations published by the Alaska Landmine yesterday. The Assembly's leadership wrote in their request to the Bronson Administration that if the allegations panned

Municipal Manager, Save Anchorage member & aggressive potty mouth

Municipal Manager, Save Anchorage member & aggressive potty mouth

Until the last few seconds, the special meeting of the Anchorage Assembly was going about as you'd expect. Legal arguments were made, and members engaged in a lively and thoughtful debate as they considered overriding Mayor David Bronson's vetoes of AO's 2021-96, 97, and

Assembly Budget Committee Leadership Statement on Budget Veto Overrides

Assembly Budget Committee Leadership Statement on Budget Veto Overrides

This afternoon, through a series of veto overrides, the Anchorage Assembly upheld the majority of budget amendments that were made with the November 23 passage of the Municipality’s 2022 general government operating, utilities and enterprise, ACDA, and capital budgets.

Bronson's far-right appointees not confirmed to election commission

Bronson's far-right appointees not confirmed to election commission

Anchorage Mayor David Bronson saw two of his election commission appointees walk away empty-handed last night after the Assembly refused to confirm Cecelia Donelson and Heather Clopton to the Commission. Both Donelson and Clopton were identified as being associated with the far-right Save Anchorage political operation whose members have perpetuated

Assembly issues statement on expiration of mask emergency ordinance

Assembly issues statement on expiration of mask emergency ordinance

Tonight, the Anchorage Assembly passed a resolution to end EO 2021-3 which required masks be worn in indoor public spaces.

Public hearings on election code changes begin tonight

Public hearings on election code changes begin tonight

In October, AO 2021-110, an ordinance amending Title 28, Elections, was introduced and has been set for two public hearings — the first happens at this evening's Assembly meeting.

Bronson attempts to stack Election Commission with two right-wing election fraud conspiracy theorists.

Bronson attempts to stack Election Commission with two right-wing election fraud conspiracy theorists.

On the agenda for tomorrow's Anchorage Assembly meeting is Memorandum 770-2021, Anchorage Election Commission appointments. Mayor Bronson has named Heather Clopton and Cecelia Donelson to the Commission, and it didn't take much sleuthing to figure out why. To nobody's surprise, Cecelia Donelson has been