Histories of Alaska: David Newton Boyer was serious about the undertaking, selling parcels off his Anchor Point homestead to fund the collection of troops he called Volunteer Independent Pioneers.
While Republican lawmakers cast Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs as the villain in their quest to pass a budget, it turns out their true nemesis sat within their own ranks, exposing the fragility of a one-member majority.
Voters said “no” to a plan that would have added one-tenth of a penny to the state sales tax to benefit rural fire districts, but firefighters warn that the need – and the threat to public safety – have not gone away.