• • • Suzanna Smiles, 40, had never voted in an Alaska election before this year, she said. But after a brutal pandemic for the small businesses that share an East Anchorage strip mall with Poshy Paws, Smiles’ dog grooming business, she decided to vote for Dave Bronson, the conservative, anti-mandate candidate in this month’s mayoral race. “I never really was very political until I opened a business. And then I realized how much I dealt with the municipality how much we’re at the mercy of them,” Smiles said in an interview Thursday, as she trimmed the toenails of a shih tzu named Myrtle. “It feels like they’re trying to muffle the voice of the people.”
Posted by Angela Denning | May 14, 2021
This sign is posted on the door of the Petersburg Post Office. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)
COVID show notes for Friday, May 14, 2021 –
Incident commander Karl Hagerman – COVID situation in Petersburg right now, still at low risk, four active cases, all travel related, people who have left Petersburg, returned here and since tested positive. They were symptomatic and were tested at the airport and at Petersburg Medical Center’s respiratory clinic. They have been directed to isolate and he believes the risk to festival-goers is low.
Petersburg still has a face covering mandate in place. He mentioned the Centers for Disease Control’s latest guidance on fully vaccinated people and masking.
In a divided city, Anchorage’s new mayor will face a tough challenge immediately Author: Anchorage Daily News editorial board | Opinion Published 2 hours ago
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Print article The election has yet to be certified, but all indications are that Dave Bronson has prevailed in his campaign for Anchorage mayor a fact that even his opponent Forrest Dunbar acknowledged late in the week. Assuming the result holds, it marks the end of a divisive, bruising mayoral fight that has left half of Anchorage’s residents on one side of a yawning partisan gulf, and the remainder on the other. Those divisions, which were instrumental in energizing Bronson’s voting base as a candidate, may be his biggest problem going forward as mayor-elect.
Print article With Anchorage’s mayoral runoff election finishing up Tuesday, it is impossible not to note H.L. Mencken’s sage observation that “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right.” One need only look at Anchorage to see his point. The contest for the city’s top executive post with all the snap, pop and sizzle of a sewing bee pits 36-year-old East Anchorage Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar against 62-year-old retired commercial pilot Dave Bronson. Dunbar, a corporate attorney and Alaska Army National Guard captain, is a member of our Assembly’s uber-liberal contingent and a failed Democratic congressional hopeful. He says he has a plan for this fair burg: Spend, spend and spend some more. He cannot say it in those words, of course. He would rather enhance, prioritize and diversify.