SALCHA, Alaska — Before the first shovel entered the ground, Forrest Powell, deputy director of the Alaska Office of Veterans Affairs, asked attendees to reflect on one of the military’s most solemn traditions. He described the moment during a military funeral when the American flag is lifted from a veteran’s casket, held before family […]
“USPS’ plan was unwise, unlawful, and a threat to the millions of voters who rely on mailed ballots to participate in our democracy,” said one case litigant. In a ruling hailed by democracy defenders, a federal court on Wednesday halted the US Postal Service’s implementation of President Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting mail-in ballots as […]
“The Trump administration is putting the logo of a semi-private, partisan entity, which is widely reported to be corrupt, on the Social Security cards of newborn babies.” As the Social Security Administration’s unveiling Thursday of a 250th anniversary commemorative Social Security card coincided with a congressional report on President Donald Trump’s use of the semiquincentennial to […]
On July 3rd, 1913, James V. Martin, would bring the flying age to Alaska with his Gage-Martin Tractor biplane. Martin, hired by two Fairbanks businessmen, Arthur Williams and R.S. McDonald, shipped his aircraft first on a steamship via the Inside Passage, then by rail to Whitehorse, then on a steamer that vied the Yukon, Tanana, […]