WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) received the coveted Panetta Institute 2016 Jefferson-Lincoln Award, to honor her “outstanding stewardship of our democracy through dedicated, responsible, and bipartisan leadership.” The award was conferred by the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, located at California State University-Monterey Bay. “I am so humbled to be given this […]
JUNEAU, Alaska—Alaska’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.8 percent in October, unchanged from September’s rate, which was revised down one-tenth of a percentage point. The comparable national rate was 4.9 percent. October’s unadjusted rate was 6.3 percent, which was one-tenth of a percentage point lower than September. It is unusual for the unadjusted rate to […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A World War II veteran and former Alaska Army National Guard member recently became a Tribal Veteran Representative (TVR), trained to assist fellow veterans secure state and federal benefits. Wesley Aiken, of Barrow, Alaska, voluntarily joined the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) in April 1943. During WWII, over 6,400 Alaskans joined […]
Like their counterparts across the nation, Alaskan activists participated in a national day of action Tuesday in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe that is resisting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Displaying banners that read “Wells Fargo; Funding Genocide Since 1852” and “#NoDAPL” a group of more than 50 entered into […]