Of the roughly 450 hospitals identified in a new analysis as at risk of closure or service cuts, around 200 are located in congressional districts represented by Republicans. The unprecedented Medicaid cuts that US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans approved last summer are putting hundreds of hospitals across the country at high risk of cutting services or permanently shutting […]
“In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.” A broker for Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly tried to make a “big investment” in a bundle of weapons stocks just weeks before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, an unpopular assault that Hegseth has aggressively championed. Citing three unnamed people familiar with […]
The first school in Alaska opened in Sitka on this date in 1869. While the territory of Alaska was purchased in 1867, the U.S. government had made no moves to open any schools in Alaska, so Sitka took it upon itself to begin its own. The school was housed in a log cabin, and […]
MANLEY HOT SPRINGS — It’s so quiet in these spruce hills and tamarack swamps that 27 hours and 50 miles passed between when Forest Wagner and I said goodbye to one human being at Old Minto and hello to the next near Baker. Space is in ample supply here on these pressed-in snow trails […]