(Ketchikan, AK) – Thursday, Attorney General Cox announced the settlement of the State’s consumer-protection lawsuit against Soni Inc., a jewelry retail business which currently does business in Ketchikan under the name “Flawless Fine Jewelry,” and one of its corporate officers, Sunita Lakhwani. In 2023, Soni Inc. sold man-made facsimiles of naturally occurring gold quartz […]
“The so-called ‘balanced budget amendment’ is the Republicans’ latest backdoor attempt at gutting Americans’ hard-earned benefits,” said one Democratic lawmaker. Nearly every member of the House Republican caucus voted Wednesday in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that experts say would result in massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, nutrition assistance, and other key federal programs. […]
One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.” As the Trump administration sows chaos with a crushing fuel blockade of Cuba, a general told Congress that the military will “set up a camp” at Guantánamo Bay to detain those who try to […]
It was on this day, March 21st, 1913, that territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark signed the Shoup Women’s Sufferage Bill giving women the right to vote in the territory of Alaska. The Shoup Women’s Sufferage Bill was the first law passed by the first Territorial Legislature, and was passed a full seven years before […]