Mayoral candidates Dave Bronson and Forrest Dunbar. (Photos/Anchorage Daily News)
Scotch tape is harder to see through than what the leftist leaders of the Anchorage Assembly pulled off at the April 27 meeting.
For a year, members Chris Constant and Forrest Dunbar have turned a deaf ear and struggled to disguise their disdain at the pleas of Anchorage business owners and residents being harmed by restrictions and closures that were further exacerbated by the Assembly’s mismanagement of $156 million in CARES Act economic relief funds.
Just two weeks after voting to uphold it, the pair teamed up to repeal nearly everything in the current Emergency Order that was issued by Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson in the faraway time of April 12.
Anchorage making pandemic business, gathering rules advisory
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The Anchorage Assembly has voted to revoke pandemic-related restrictions on businesses and gatherings and to make them recommendations instead.
The changes take effect Monday and were approved unanimously despite concerns raised by the municipality’s health department director.
A local mask mandate remains in effect.
Assembly member Christopher Constant, who sponsored the motion to revoke gathering limits and business requirements, said the purpose was to send a message “that we recognize it’s time to do what we’ve heard from a number of people, which is trust the people to do the right thing.”
Print article Gov. Mike Dunleavy removed Anchorage Assembly member Jamie Allard from the Alaska Commission on Human Rights over comments she made on social media regarding a pair of Nazi-themed vanity license plates that surfaced in Anchorage recently. “The comments made by Ms. Allard regarding the license plate controversy have become a distraction for the Human Rights Commission and its mission to ensure equality and fair treatment of all Alaskans,” Dunleavy spokesman Jeff Turner said Tuesday. “Gov. Dunleavy felt it was in the best interest of the board to remove her effective immediately.” Allard was appointed to the commission in 2019. As of Tuesday, her name had been removed from the commission’s website.
Print article The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night debated issues underscored by division in both the city and the nation in recent weeks, including passing a resolution condemning last week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol and extending the city’s declaration of an emergency and pandemic-related restrictions. By passing the resolution, the Assembly both joined and recognized other elected officials in condemning the riot, and urged citizens to “work together to strengthen and protect our cherished democratic institutions.” Assembly member John Weddleton, who sponsored the resolution with member Suzanne LaFrance, said that the measure was not meant to be political.