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• • • 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 sh...

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. Dunba...

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...

Dunbar unsuccessfully challenged Congressman Don Young (R – Alaska) in 2014 and has twice been elected to the Anchorage Assembly. While Falsey got a lot of media attention as city manager during the 2018 earthquake and Covid, his ties to former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz do not help. Martinez, who also worked for Berkowitz, is essentially an unknown in the race. Now the conservatives. Mike Robbins has raised the most, over $280,000. Although a significant portion of that is his own money. This includes a recent $25,000 campaign contribution on March 26, which violates campaign laws. Candid...

Advertisement. For information about purchasing ads, please click here. The Alaska Stalker – April 3, 2021 Welcome to this edition of the Alaska Stalker, a lighthearted round up of the best and worst of Alaska’s social media landscape. *** If you enjoy the Alaska Stalker, please consider supporting working moms like me by sending in hot tips, overheards, and spotted ins. You can reach me at [email protected] As always, thanks for reading. *** So it is written, so it shall be. Breakup is here! Yes, things in Anchorage are finally starting to heat up. The last day to mail in or drop of...