When Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives elected Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson as speaker last week, critics quickly sounded the alarm about his previous calls to cut trillions of dollars from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—and the GOP leader triggered a fresh wave of fears on Thursday with related comments to a Capitol Hill journalist. NBC […]
Birch — Qasrulek, Uqgwik Ikani uqgwit tak’ut. – The birch trees over there are tall. The Kenai birch (Betula kenaica) is a deciduous tree with a grey, papery bark and pointed oval leaves. The Kenai birch grows in scattered groves around the Kodiak Archipelago. It is particularly abundant near the communities of Larsen Bay and […]
On Saturday the Department of Public Safety revealed the names of the three troopers and the North Star Borough police officer who discharged their firearms in the Parks Highway incident that took the life of 45-year-old Michael Grimes of Fairbanks. Those enforcement personnel are as follows: Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Aaron Mobley, a 20-year veteran […]
For two months, staff in the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Community & Behavioral Services (CBS) Division worked on a button blanket for the Anchorage Museum’s Good Medicine exhibit. The cream-colored blanket has a deep red border. The interior is lined with different shapes of seaweed. The back of […]