In the early 1990s, Janet Collins was hiking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge when she saw “Camp 163” labeled on her map. Intrigued, she later looked up Camp 163 in Donald Orth’s Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Her curiosity led her to Ernest Leffingwell, the subject of a biography she has written and Washington […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate failed early Friday to enact a partial repeal of the 7-year-old Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. Three Republican lawmakers — John McCain of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — voted with Democrats in the 49-51 defeat of the Republican-led repeal effort. President Donald […]
Alaska’s senior Senator, Lisa Murkowski, shot down any chance of repealing Obama’s health care bill without replacing it with a Republican-built replacement put out by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday. Senator Murkowski was the third Senator to balk at McConnell’s repeal-only motion put forth, killing any chance of the motion of […]