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Jamie Allard - Keep Homeless Running & Transgender People Need Mental Health

Jamie Allard - Keep Homeless Running & Transgender People Need Mental Health

One of the difficult things about writing on local politics is having to endure listening to hours of right-wing propaganda others don't. We do this to convey elected officials' political perspectives on varied important issues—things they wouldn't dare say to the Anchorage Daily News

Our Dark Year of Antisemitism

Our Dark Year of Antisemitism

We see you. Your orange idol has given you a license to be more public about it, and people are starting to notice. It's not a good look for you, the state, or Anchorage. Yet, you insist on wearing your hate like a badge of pride on your

$15 Million Appropriation Documents for 'Bronsonville' Released

$15 Million Appropriation Documents for 'Bronsonville' Released

The Bronson administration has released the appropriation documents for Mayor Bronson's mass shelter plan. The documents show that construction costs for the proposed mass shelter are estimated to be $10,824,773, while the cost of the structure itself is $3,511,551, with a total Phase 1

Dunbar - 'Bronsonville' Project May be in Peril

Dunbar - 'Bronsonville' Project May be in Peril

Is Anchorage Mayor David Bronson's proposed mass shelter in peril? If you consider a tweet sent today by East Anchorage Assembly Member Forrest Dunbar, it may just be an indicator that a dark storm is brewing over Bronson's proposed project. In his tweet, Dunbar wrote that

Third Extension in 'Expeditious' Bronson for Mayor Complaint

Third Extension in 'Expeditious' Bronson for Mayor Complaint

done with speed and efficiency.

'No On Zaletel Recall' Group Begins Taking Donations

'No On Zaletel Recall' Group Begins Taking Donations

Wasting people's time and money seems to be a favorite pastime of Midtown political activists but here we are again. Truly, let us all join hands and collectively vomit.

Community Voices: Unhoused Need More Complex Support Than Building Giant Facility and Herding Them Into it

Community Voices: Unhoused Need More Complex Support Than Building Giant Facility and Herding Them Into it

Mayor Bronson, and Assembly Members, Please do not support the building of the proposed shelter, "Site 27" near Tudor Rd and Elmore Rd in East Anchorage. I have attended two Anchorage Assembly Committee meetings. Both meetings the mayor's Homeless Coordinator, John Morris showed he is out