Tag: Alaska
How Alaska tribes solved their dental health crisis
Dental health therapy takes half the time it takes to train a dentist. And it does what good medicine should: improve public health.
Alaska’s small villages turn toward renewables – and don’t look back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true.
The unlikely uprising of progressive politics in Alaska
As the Arctic heats up and the oil economy tanks, progressives find their voice in a conservative state.
Secretly approved in Alaska, will LNG trains soon appear in rest...
“As if outdated rail cars carrying volatile crude oil didn't pose enough of a danger to the tens of millions of Americans who live and work near our country's rail lines."
After years’ long push, fracking has quietly arrived in Alaska
In the end tapping Alaska's shale resources via fracking may come down to a simple issue of money.
War in the Gulf (no, not that Gulf!)
The U.S. navy’s anti-environmental broadside in the Gulf of Alaska.
Alaska Just Had Hottest Year in Recorded History
Alaska, like the rest of the world, is experiencing higher than normal temperatures this spring.
The Alaska Democratic Convention Just Rejected Superdelegates
Alaska has followed in the footsteps on Maine and has abolished the superdelegate system.
Bernie Sanders Sweeps Saturday Contests
Senator Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in all three Democratic presidential contests yesterday!
Sanders and Fellow Senators Urge President to End Alaskan Oil Drilling
Bernie Sanders along with 11 fellow senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to cease Shell’s oil drilling in the Arctic. Because they believe there to be "utter hypocrisy in the current policy."
POPULAR
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip
As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024
With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.