“It’s hard to read this comically bad letter as anything other than a challenge to Congress to either assert its constitutional authority or admit fecklessness,” said one group. Despite his family’s display of two flags associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement that baselessly claims the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, […]
The Russian president condemned the West’s “constant escalation” as NATO members including France, Germany, and Canada back Kyiv’s use of long-range missiles to attack targets inside his country. As the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and leaders of NATO member nations joined the United States in advocating Ukrainian use of Western-supplied weapons to […]
JUNEAU – On the last day of the legislative session, the Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 22, sponsored by Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage, officially recognizing Juneteenth, June 19, as an annually observed state holiday. This significant legislation commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of the Civil […]
The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) has never addressed Native claims. ANCSA is an industrial-rooted tool of Congress, created to exterminate Indigenous land use and streamline the liquidation of “natural resources” in our ancient ancestral homelands. The word “Native” in the law is a misnomer. In December, Lisa Murkowski’s “Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native […]