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Rivera reelected acting Anchorage Assembly chair following discussion over breakdown of meeting decorum Print article The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night reelected Felix Rivera as acting chair and John Weddleton as acting vice chair. The vote came after members aired grievances and addressed growing tension over the last year among them, which last week culminated in a charged moment between Rivera and Jamie Allard. Municipal code requires that the Assembly select a chair and vice chai...

Anchorage Assembly meeting erupts in heated exchange between Rivera and Allard Print article The end of an Anchorage Assembly meeting on Wednesday night erupted in yelling as Assembly Chair Felix Rivera and member Jamie Allard had a heated exchange that ended with Allard threatening possible legal action against Rivera if he cut off her microphone in the future. During the exchange, Rivera said Allard had made comments at a meeting the previous day about immigration at the Texas border that...

Anchorage Assembly extends COVID-19 emergency declaration April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly has extended into June a local COVID-19 emergency declaration, approving a shorter extension than Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson requested, with some Assembly members indicating this latest extension, the citys eighth, could be the last. The Assembly voted 6-4 Tuesday to extend the declaration, first enacted in March 2020, to June 11. Without the ex...

Anchorage Assembly turns down another push to end citywide emergency declaration Print article The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday rejected another push from two members to rescind the city’s emergency proclamation in an 8-2 vote. The current proclamation is in effect until mid-April. The motion to end the proclamation was proposed by Assembly member Jamie Allard, who represents Eagle River and Chugiak. Allard issued a memorandum to the Assembly in support of ending the proclamation. “I...

An emergency order requiring that people wear face masks in public in Anchorage is still in effect.

Burglars use truck to smash into Bosco’s comic shop in Spenard — again Published January 29 Share on Facebook Print article A string of break-ins at a popular Anchorage game and comic book store started in July, and this week it happened again: A truck on Thursday smashed through an entryway into Bosco’s event room, resulting in a pile of wreckage and broken glass, the store’s owner said. Anchorage police received a call about the break-in at 12:49 a.m. Thursday, according to poli...

Print article Were making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. The Anchorage acting mayor’s office plans to further ease some of the municipality’s COVID-19 restrictions in a new emergency order to be announced this week. Capacity restrictions on hospitality businesses like restaura...

Anchorage Assembly to consider city code for mask mandate by The Associated Press Last Updated Jan 27, 2021 at 9:26 am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An emergency order mandating the use of masks in response to the coronavirus pandemic could be turned into city code by the Anchorage Assembly. Assembly members were expected to introduce ordinances Tuesday that could change mayoral emergency orders into local law, including a requirement for masks to be worn within indoor public places, Anchorage Dail...

It is incredibly cynical to tell us we must choose proper funding for early childhood education or a one-time payment for body cameras.

Anchorage Assembly to consider making mask mandate city code Published January 25 Share on Facebook Print article Some emergency orders put in place by the Anchorage mayor to address the coronavirus pandemic may be turned into city code by the Assembly, including the city’s mask mandate. Several Anchorage Assembly members on Tuesday will introduce ordinances that, if passed, would change four existing emergency orders into citywide ordinances, including the requirement that individuals ...