Murkowski says the Niblack and Bokan Mountain mines could provide stable, well-paying jobs for hundreds of people. But with no roads to either site, workers would have to be boated or flown to and from the mines.
Federal Government
Begich looks to drilling, legislation to lower fuel prices
Efforts to curb speculative trading in the oil futures market have run into partisan opposition, or are hung up in the courts.
Some federal unemployment insurance payments to end
Some unemployed workers in Alaska are about to lose their unemployment insurance benefits thanks to federal legislation that ties the payments to a state’s unemployment rate.
Update: Post offices — saved for now
The Douglas Post Office has been spared – at least for a while.
Douglas sends its post office a love letter
Save the post office. That was the rally cry in downtown Douglas yesterday (Wednesday) as a crowd of about a hundred urged Congress to pass legislation to keep open the community’s post office.
Douglas Post Office supporters plan rally today
A rally is planned in downtown Douglas this afternoon to support the community’s post office, which is on a list of more than 36-hundred postal stations being studied for possible closure by the United States Postal Service.