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.
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Montgomery: A partnership will offer 1,500 free rides over the coming months to help bridge COVID-19 vaccination access issues. HandsOn River Region and Uber have partnered with the city on the program, which will not require the Uber app. Rides are available on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. People can access free round-trip rides by calling 211. “Challenges create opportunity, and Montgomery – like cities around the world – continues climbing out of our generation’s greatest challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mayor Steven Reed said in a statement. “However, this crisis led us to use innovative ideas in our response and recovery efforts.” The Montgomery Rides Program reduces the barriers to citywide vaccination and could be replicated in other public health programs in Montgomery.” Reed earlier this year said the city was exploring possible solution to vaccine access issues. The city has co-hosted several drive-
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Print article The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday extended the city’s COVID-19 declaration of emergency to June 11. The meeting was marked by tension and heated moments between Assembly members and residents in attendance, and one man was escorted from the Assembly chambers and trespassed out of Loussac Library by Anchorage police. In a 6-4 vote, the Assembly passed the resolution from Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson to extend the emergency proclamation, which was first enacted March 12, 2020. It is the eighth extension of the emergency. Before the vote, many members indicated it would likely be the last such extension of the emergency.
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