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February 11th |
In late January, a state court ruled that the attempted recall of Anchorage Assembly Chair Felix Rivera can go forward. Using almost identical reasoning to the courts decisions in the lawsuit over the recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Superior Court Judge Dani Crosby said that it s up to Midtown Anchorage voters to decide whether the grounds stated by recall proponents are sufficient cause to remove Rivera from office. It s not a coincidence that the decisions in the two cases were so similar under Alaska law, although recalls must have cause, there is no minimum threshold for that cause. And although under the Alaska Constitution, voters are meant to decide the recall on the legal grounds stated, in practice, it s a referendum on how voters feel about Rivera and Dunleavy.
December 31st, 2020 |
It s somehow fitting that vials of COVID-19 vaccine began arriving in Alaska just as the daylight approached its lowest ebb. Now, with winter solstice behind us, every day brings a little more light than the last. It s accompanied by another kind of light the light of hope.
Each day for the past two weeks, about a thousand Alaskans have endured a poke to the upper arm, receiving the first dose of protection against the disease that has ravaged the world for much of 2020. They are doctors and nurses, paramedics and Pioneer Home residents. And they represent a vanguard against the coronavirus that will grow until the pandemic is stamped out.