CARACAS, Venezuela - Vice President Nicolas Maduro is taking over leadership of Hugo Chavez's political movement after the socialist leader died Tuesday at age 58 following a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Gov. Sarah Palin is giving Alaska state employees an extra day off for Christmas this year, after Pres. Bush did the same for federal employees. Due to City and Borough of Juneau contracts that are tied to what the state does...
...James Wickersham, a judge appointed by Pres. McKinley, was extremely concerned about...appointed Territorial Gov. of Alaska by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and was...Republicans and southern Democrats, backed by Pres. Eisenhower. This coalition wanted to...
...share, and protect Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. President Obama will stand up for working families," said AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee.Nowhere in the release was any mention of the Afghanistan war. When Obama ordered the troop surge in...
...on an Alaska Marine Lines truck and the signed letter authorizing Senate Bill 95 with the signatures of Gov. Parnell, Senate Pres. Gary Stevens and Speaker of the House Mike Chenault. Badger quoted former President Theodore Roosevelt, "Never throughout...
...individuals and corporations: Kevin Meyers, Pres/CEO of Phillips Alaska; Mark Hanley of Anadarko Petroleum; David Wright, Pres/CEO of Alyeska Pipeline Serv. Co...of Lynden Transport Inc.; Carl Marrs, Pres/CEO of Cook Inlet Regional Corp; Jim...
FAIRBANKS - The train car that carried President Warren G. Harding during his 1923 visit to Alaska has been put under wraps.
...Wildlife Refuge was established. In 1923, the 1400-foot Tanana steel bridge was completed on the Alaska Railroad. In 1923, Pres. Warren Harding established the National Petroleum Reserve on the North Slope. In 1975, Gilbert Zemansky, a sanitary engineer...
...future of energy development in Alaska. Among the good news is the financial shape in which Alaska finds itself, said Senate Pres. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak. "We are certainly envied by other states because of our condition, we don't have high unemployment...
...still lays the blame at the feet of the environmentalists. The truth is that the court is right and Graham is wrong. But Pres. Bush is opening more Tongass lands to logging, no matter the cost or damage. Add to this the fact that the Forest Service...
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