Today, the Anchorage Police Department and the United States Army Recruiting Division leadership held a signing ceremony to solidify the Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Program agreement designed to help young soldiers find work after they complete their service. “I am pleased to partner with the Army to find careers for those who served,” said […]
President Donald Trump once again over-inflated his viewer numbers, saying that his address was “the highest number in history,” but, according to Nielsen, that is not true. The TV rating company reports that about 45.6 million watched Trump on Tuesday night. That’s well below the viewership for former President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union, […]
Juneau – Representative Harriet Drummond (D-Anchorage) has introduced legislation to protect the ability for Alaskans to go to work despite past convictions for marijuana possession. House Bill 316 seeks to seal public records related to marijuana possession in the wake of voter approval of legalization in Alaska in November of 2014. The bill also calls […]
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I love committee work. Every proposed law is assigned to one or more committee, where the members listen to the sponsor’s presentation, hear their testimony and read supporting documents, ask questions and hear presentations and testimony for and against before deciding whether to move the bill forward. I find the process […]