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Looking back on one year of the pandemic Author: Adam Crum Published 4 days ago Share on Facebook Print article This past week, Alaska marked the one-year anniversary of our state’s public health disaster emergency declaration, first enacted on March 11, 2020. On the same day, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the National Basketball Association suspended all basketball games after a Utah Jazz player tested positive. A day later, Alaska announced its first positive COVID-19 case in a nonresident cargo pilot. The day after that, then-President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency to help fight the pandemic and enacted travel restrictions on non-U.S. citizens traveling from 26 European countries. ....
Plan to close DMVs in six Alaska communities is a government disservice Author: Sara Hannan Published March 11 Share on Facebook Print article Alaska Department of Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka’s judgement is beginning to trouble me. She continues to compromise services to individual Alaskans in favor of businesses and out-of-state contractors. Procurement practices she oversees at the department have come under worrying scrutiny. Most recently, she is insisting on closing Division of Motor Vehicles offices in six locations around the state in order to pave the way for private vendors, who are likely to charge Alaskans as much as 10 times the fees for the same services. ....