...of deliberations. The 59-year-old owns Summit Telephone and Telegraph Company of Alaska, which provides rural telephone service north of Fairbanks. Prosecutors presented evidence that Shoffstall failed to pay income taxes between 1996 and...

...be "dangerous" not to reauthorize the commission, and warned of "particularly disastrous consequences for rural telephone service." Alaska is still very much in the formative stages of building its infrastructure. Consumers cannot afford...