Just one final snub for Juneau from our former governor. She held farewell picnics in Wasilla, Fairbanks and Anchorage. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Juneau still the capital city? I would think this would have been one of the choices for a picnic. I was wondering, who paid for all of these farewell affairs?

Since the 1920s, the International Pacific Halibut Commission has been managing halibut stocks for one purpose: sustainability. The commercial halibut fishery has become the model for the entire world.

If you want to understand the role of insurance companies in our nation’s health care melodrama, think of them as pimps. And like true pimps, they use lies, pay-offs and hired political muscle to guarantee their 30 percent cut of our health care dollars.

Alaska got a new lieutenant governor Sunday as Craig Campbell was sworn in as a the state’s first ever “temporary substitute lieutenant governor.”

While Alaska’s unemployment rate is climbing, both state workers and employers are in a much better situation than many – and possibly most – other states, say employment security officials with the state and federal governments.

ANCHORAGE – Some tribal governments, cities and nonprofits owe $4.4 million in unpaid payroll taxes and penalties to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new state report.

FAIRBANKS – Gov. Sean Parnell spent his first full day in office Monday meeting with locals in Fairbanks, including ministers, community leaders and the editorial board of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Ferry service on the Alaska Marine Highway System is more than just the best way to connect scattered Southeast communities.

Just before last weekend’s governor’s picnic, and before the transition of power from former Gov. Sarah Palin to Gov. Sean Parnell, I returned from attending the National Conference of State Legislatures annual convention in Philadelphia.

On the third day of his presidency, Barack Obama dramatically departed from the disastrous policies of the Bush administration by signing an order promising that the Guantanamo Bay detention center would be closed no later than Jan. 22, 2010. But procrastination from the White House is making it easier for congressional critics to frustrate a step vital to restoring American legitimacy.