Monday, the Alaska House Coalition sent a formal request to the Speaker of the House to take an official poll of the House to determine whether the legislature will call itself into special session for the purpose of overriding the governor’s vetoes. Under Alaska Statute AS 24.05.100(a)(2), the Speaker of the House “shall initiate a […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – On June 21, Superior Court Judge Kirk Schwalm sentenced 33-year-old Cody Stockton to 50 years for misconduct involving a controlled substance in the first degree. On June 22, Superior Court Judge Paul Lyle sentenced Stockton to 15 years for robbery in the first degree. The sentences were imposed for two separate incidents and […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, after a four-week trial in front of Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby, an Anchorage jury found Jimmy Dale Cates guilty of one count of murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, one count of attempted sexual assault in the first degree, two counts of arson in […]
“Alito doesn’t have to come across like a drunken Paul Thomas Anderson character gleefully confessing to drinking our collective milkshakes in order to be a real-life, run-of-the-mill political villain,” quipped the founder of one ethics watchdog. Advocates for ethical government on Monday sounded the alarm on a report revealing that the wife of U.S. Supreme […]