Get Out and Vote Don Young
— October 25, 2018
10 years after, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito makes his case
— February 16, 2016The Supreme Court had brought before it an issue on a federal ban on hovercraft inside national parks, and Justice Samuel Alito seemed in a huff. Regardless of special concessions that apply to Alaska, an appeals court upheld the hovercraft ban there, which it extended beyond the federal land to include land the government doesn’t own. The court’s justification didn’t make…
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Game Changer on the Yukon-The John Sturgeon Story (Video)
— November 2, 2015John Sturgeon is a 46 year resident of Alaska. He has worked in Alaska’s forest products industry during that time. He is active in his community serving on several boards including the John Sturgeon is a 46 year resident of Alaska. He has worked in Alaska’s forest products industry during that time. He is active…
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Game Changer on the Yukon
— October 31, 2015My grandfather moved from Washington to Alaska in 1940 to work, hunt and play in an environment that he felt was a better, safer, healthier and more enjoyable place to raise his family. He died in 1977, three years before President Carter doubled the size of the country’s national park and refuge system and tripled…
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A Message to Int. Secretary Sally Jewell
— February 13, 2015
Sturgeon v. Frost: A little case in Alaska poses big questions for federalism
— April 20, 2018Matthew J. Sanders Matthew J. Sanders is of counsel to Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, LLP. He is a member of the Trends editorial board. Previously written for the Time and again we see that big cases often begin with little disputes. On its face, Sturgeon v. Frost is a simple case about whether the…
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Alaska Turf Wars-Frontiers
— February 2, 2016Since statehood battles on who controls Alaska’s land and the waters have existed. Watch this video news story produced by Anchorage’s KTVA 11 for their Frontiers with Ronda McBride news program for the the full story on why a moose hunter in Alaska has taken his case all the way the the US Supreme Court….
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A Constitutional Right to Hovercraft?
— October 31, 2015The U.S. Supreme Court considers an odd case from Alaska, with the fraught question of federal management of Western lands hovering in the background. “Raisins are not wild animals even when they are dancing,” Michael McConnell told the U.S. Supreme Court last term, thereby winning the first annual Epps Award for Coolest Argument Line of…
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How it really works
— October 31, 2015
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