Though Alaska News Today

It’s time for cautious optimism, as the highly consequential takeover of kamaaina company Hawaiian Airlines by Alaska Airlines gets underway.

And Biden touts the rail worker agreement.

More than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Alaska, the fight against the disease is pivoting from testing to vaccine boosting.

As well, sex-selection abortion disproportionately affects girls and women. While not widespread in the U.S., it happens [ The New York Times, May, 31, 2012]. It’s most common among first-generation immigrants from China, India, Nigeria, and South Korea, where baby boys are considered more valuable than baby girls. China notoriously suffers a massive gender imbalance because of the practice. These immigrants are exactly the type that pre-1965 immigration law stopped from coming here. Even Ame...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument on that question in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. Immediately at stake in the answer is billions of dollars in federal CARES Act funding. But the outcome could also have longer-term consequences for how, and from whom, Alaskan Natives receive essential services. Remember the $8 billion #CoronavirusReliefFund for tribal governments? Well the Supreme Court is finally hearing arguments in the long-running #COVID19 disput...