Why is it that Super PACs (political action committees) have infused an absurd amount of money into the primary propping up unknown candidates and making Mary Peltola look bad?

Alaskans have high expectations of our congressional delegation. We understand the weight of our state’s potential cannot be managed by the faint of heart. The job requires drive, conviction, courage and resolve. All qualities Sen. Sullivan exemplifies.

Back in June, Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign accused Mary Peltola and D.C. Democrats of recruiting Dan. J. Sullivan of Petersburg to run as a Republican for the U.S. Senate.

Economists talk about “new money” and “old money,” but not always in the sense of old, like long-time rich families, or new, like tech startup multi-millionaires.

Last week, I emailed the Assembly a straightforward question: if the city sells City Hall to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) at a discount, how much future tax revenue will taxpayers forgo, and what will they get in return? No Assembly member answered.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about political power in Alaska. Specifically, the inevitable entitlement that old war horses think they deserve because they have slogged through years of "paying their dues" to ascend to the role of governor.

Sen. Dan Sullivan isn’t a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But if he were a true leader in combatting sexual assault and abuse, he would have immediately expressed his objections to Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general. Other Republican senators would have joined him. And the judiciary committee would not have advanced the nomination for a vote by the full Senate.

I don’t know where to start. Astonishment. I am astonished that the Alaska Division of Elections has removed 3,048 people from Alaskan active voter rolls.

If you want a pair of smartglasses that will record every burp, blemish and blush of whoever is sitting across from you — while it also remembers their names — Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his techies at Meta see the world the same as you. They see privacy to be dismissed and eating habits to be recorded.

What to do with the old City Hall is not merely a financial issue. Its location makes that property central to downtown Juneau, and it would be appalling if it turned into yet another tanzanite or T-shirt shop that is closed in the winter.

As someone who lives in the flood zone, I want to thank the City and Borough of Juneau for the work that has gone into preparing our community for this year’s glacial outburst flood.

Ballot Measure No. 1 appearing on the Aug. 18 ballot will restore a system of limits on the amount that individuals and groups can contribute to individual campaigns for state and local office.