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Dunbar, Quinn-Davidson, LaFrance release jobs plan details

Dunbar, Quinn-Davidson, LaFrance release jobs plan details

Today, Assembly Members Forrest Dunbar, Suzanne LaFrance, and Austin Quinn-Davidson announced their jobs and economic initiative, A New Day for Anchorage at The Launch Company, a rocketry business in Ship Creek.

Anchorage Assembly Members Dunbar, LaFrance and Quinn-Davidson to Launch A New Day for Anchorage Jobs Plan

Anchorage Assembly Members Dunbar, LaFrance and Quinn-Davidson to Launch A New Day for Anchorage Jobs Plan

Assembly Members Forrest Dunbar, Suzanne LaFrance, and Austin Quinn-Davidson will announce their jobs and economic initiative, A New Day for Anchorage.

Bronson's incompetence, not Assembly 'partisanship,' endangering public health & safety

Bronson's incompetence, not Assembly 'partisanship,' endangering public health & safety

The one constant in the Municipality since the beginning of the pandemic has been the ability to receive a relatively quick and drama-free COVID-19 test. The tests are essential not just for those Alaskans who travel (and many people do) but for the elderly, high-risk individuals, and those who wish

From Unelected Mayor to Unelected Clerk and the Slow Rolling Coup

From Unelected Mayor to Unelected Clerk and the Slow Rolling Coup

The messaging from pro-Bronson supporters associated with the far-right shadowy Save Anchorage operation has been consistent for over a year now — they would never recognize Austin Quinn-Davidson as the legitimate Acting Mayor of Anchorage anymore than they would be content to let the Municipal Clerk function as a non-politicized appointed

Library Advisory Board against moving library to Parks & Recreation Department

Library Advisory Board against moving library to Parks & Recreation Department

Under Anchorage Mayor David Bronson's proposed budget, many city departments would become divisions, and the city’s library system, which up until now has been its own department, would become a division of the city's Parks and Recreation Department. By moving the Anchorage Public Library (APL)

Assembly under siege - meeting canceled after COVID exposure

Assembly under siege - meeting canceled after COVID exposure

While right-wing blogs continue to perpetuate the myth that all is well in Anchorage's three major hospitals, the number of available adult ICU beds has dropped to zero, according to data on the state's COVID-19 dashboard. Anchorage's reported lack of available adult ICU beds

MAGA Mayor Bronson Rescinds Municipal Paid Parental Leave Policy

MAGA Mayor Bronson Rescinds Municipal Paid Parental Leave Policy

An email sent this morning by Labor Relations Director Raylene Griffith gave notice that Mayor Bronson had rescinded, immediately, the paid parental leave program put into place by former Acting Anchorage Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson. In June, Quinn-Davidson signed the Municipality's first paid parental leave policy, which provided 160