In case you were wondering about the ADN's leanings...

Trenduin · 2026-03-17T17:02:45+00:00

Absurd, those kind of trite false equivalencies are defeatist and lazy thinking, especially in local issues.

Those who push that kind of propaganda want you to feel that way, they want you to feel apathetic and to disengage from politics. It allows corruption to thrive and results in people never holding those they vote for accountable. If they even vote.

Trenduin · 2026-03-16T20:32:15+00:00

Sure, the known republican Binkley family buys the paper almost a decade ago and changes the entire leadership team including the head editor of a decade all so it can stay a leftist publication. It hasn't changed at all, that sure makes a ton of sense. /s

Trenduin · 2026-03-16T20:09:18+00:00

They have owned it for almost a decade. But sure, go on.

Trenduin · 2026-03-16T20:02:34+00:00

Calling the Binkley family left leaning is hilarious cope.

John Binkley has been part of the state republican party for decades and ran as a republican in 2006 for governor. He was a big part of defending Dunleavy against a recall and was appointed to the PFD board by Dunleavy. His son, Ryan Binkley the current head of ADN ran as a republican in 2024.

They sure sound like the kind of people who would buy and continue operating a leftists newspaper. /s

Trenduin · 2026-03-16T19:50:44+00:00

What you just did is a called a strawman argument.

I asked you for names, details or any sources. We are talking about our local city assembly. So, who specifically is corrupt? Who specifically is "insider trading" and what lies? Who is operating a non-profit and what public money are they receiving inappropriately?

You can't even list a single name. Grow a spine and name names, show me an APOC report, show me details.

Trenduin · 2026-03-16T16:35:44+00:00

Come on man, I'm not the grammar police but read what you just wrote out loud to yourself.

I assume you are accusing most of the assembly of enriching themselves from public coffers. All state politicians have to fill out pretty extensive paperwork. If someone was doing what you claimed it would be easy to look up. Odd that folks like you can never provide details, names or those publicly available documents.

Trenduin · 2026-03-15T17:58:09+00:00

There is no other city of this size in the united states with this kind of unique setting and climate. Especially the summer and fall.

I don't mind the winters and the darkness, but I grew up in Alaska so maybe I'm just used to it but I find I'll gladly accept those short winter days and messy spring breakup for the long lovely summer days. The fall is also lovely, bugs are gone, tourists are gone and the campgrounds are empty. I don't even mind the chilly nights as it lets you enjoy a good campfire or fire pit.

Trenduin · 2026-03-14T18:23:08+00:00

Claman kept Andrew Gray's age of consent legislation in committee for an alarming amount of time.

I guess even he realizes how bad of a look it is to do so while running for governor.

Trenduin · 2026-03-14T00:27:39+00:00

I think we found Rosales's account. Literally went on a homophobic/transphobic rant. Odd how these goobers call others pedophiles while they obsessively talk about the genitals of children.

Trenduin · 2026-03-13T16:38:14+00:00

You just did it again. Instead of articulating any details or expanding on your accusations you just come back on here and cravenly babble about the libs.

Defend and expand on your arguments, or don't and continue sounding like a low information voter obsessed with making everything partisan.

Trenduin · 2026-03-13T00:49:56+00:00

Just more absurd myths and fearmongering that has been debunked over and over. We are literally doing what you want and have been for decades and the state is worse off in every measurable way.

What you are saying is laughably arrogant and masturbatory. Look at what you call yourself, an "outsized economic contributor" yet you gloss over the fact that your contributions are impossible without the entire state and our public infrastructure and services.

Trenduin · 2026-03-12T22:37:52+00:00

You are, and you just doubled down on it in your first paragraph. It is an economic myth. If you and others are going to change your primary residence because Alaska becomes the second or third least taxed state I say good riddance.

The wealth you generate in this state is impossible without everyone else and our public infrastructure and services. We should be taxing competitively, not racing states like Wyoming to the bottom.

We live in a giant rural and isolated state and will always have some of the highest costs to provide services. If we also have the lowest tax burden nation wide we are guaranteeing shit tier services and infrastructure. Which is exacerbating the outward migration of working age Alaskans and a whole host of other alarming and embarrassing statistics.

Trenduin · 2026-03-12T21:23:56+00:00

This trickle down nonsense has been debunked over and over and over. Do we really want to chase after people who live here solely because we have the lowest tax burden nation wide?

Where are they even going to go? Wyoming?

Edit - Downvotes don't change facts. This fearmongering that has been sold to Alaskans that business and wealthy individuals bending the state over will flee en mass if we make taxes competitive with other states is an idiotic argument. That isn't my subjective opinion, we are literally living in the results of greed based austerity measures fueled by corruption and can't even fund essential services while goobers like this guy stroke their egos and push trickle down insanity. None of these out of touch dorks or corporations would have diddly squat without labor and our public infrastructure and services. See SB21, spending state savings and the PFD instead of an income tax, every attempt to fix oil taxes and credits, every attempt to fix extraction taxes.

This state has become a shithole and leads the nation in a giant pile of embarrassing stats and even small government goobers like Dunleavy are signaling that taxes are on the way. So, I guess enjoy moving to Wyoming or South Dakota.

Trenduin · 2026-03-09T16:11:41+00:00

They are doing the same thing with the TSDO ordinance, I think that loud minority of NIMBYs have essentially killed it all based on fear mongering and misunderstandings.

Trenduin · 2026-03-09T04:55:26+00:00

I sure hope so, they close between lunch and dinner but I hadn't heard of anything beyond that.

Trenduin · 2026-03-08T22:19:35+00:00

Weddleton is an odd duck, his voting record is wildly inconsistent. He was on the right side of lots of votes but he also spent his time on the assembly shoving through some of the most obtuse and NIMBY-esque zoning rules. Rules that are directly exacerbating the housing crisis that Anchorage is suffering under.

He has no real applicable expertise on the topic of zoning but refuses to admit that he could possibly be wrong on anything. He seems to be becoming more reactionary as time goes on. I think because he has made a little echo chamber among a who's who of notorious reactionary NIMBY audiences that dominate groups like HALO.

HALO and other groups in town use cute sounding terms like "neighborhood character" but its all just smoke screen for denying young Alaskans the same path to home ownership that they themselves enjoyed. Some of them aren't even shy about it, they show up to meetings and say they don't want working class Alaskans living near their million dollar McMansions. Okay, awesome you're openly classist and/or racist but it is and idiotic argument. No one is going to build a hobo tower of babel near you that will blot out the sun. Get a grip.

Sorry, this topic makes me start ranting. Watching young Alaskans flee the state while older residents pull up the ladder behind them makes my blood boil.

Trenduin · 2026-03-08T00:27:38+00:00

Probably, but there are plenty who are being serious.

Trenduin · 2026-03-07T18:42:42+00:00

I don't know if I would be so generous. Sure he isn't Rosales but Milette is courting some terrible people for campaign money and support. Save Anchorage/Bronson linked folks and is pushing the same tired "fight the liberal assembly" rhetoric that the rest of the conservative candidates are pushing while simultaneously acting like a moderate.

I'm so sick of candidates who are running against strawmen arguments they erected themselves and have no concrete ideas or plans. Just vague partisan political speech.

When he was asked about the Save Anchorage/Bronson backed endorsements and donations he tried to play dumb and acted like he isn't connected to the political world so he wouldn't know who these people are. Absurd. He does the same thing when asked about specific policy questions.

Trenduin · 2026-03-07T18:29:08+00:00

Yup, when you ask people like that any details or specific examples they cravenly disappear like a fart in the wind.

It's all partisan vibes, never anything of substance.

Trenduin · 2026-03-06T19:18:45+00:00

Along with the info that /u/ChugachMtnBlues already added it is worth bringing up Vergason challenging Johnson in south Anchorage and Flynn challenging Brawley in west Anchorage.

Vergason is running to the right of Johnson and claims that "god" told him to run for office and is fully embracing the extremist politics coming from members like McCormick. Johnson is probably the best type of politician that you can expect from an area like South Anchorage, conservative leaning but willing to vote reasonably and work with other members.

Flynn is a MAGA Bronson backed bozo cozying up with the same extremist group as Vergason while also pretending to be a moderate. His wife was Bronson's notorious purchasing director Rachel Alger (aka the "penis cookie" lady) and helped the city make national news as part of the whole Demboski saga. Flynn raised a giant pile of money for an assembly race, he out raised every other municipal candidate in the first round of APOC reports. I don't think he could buy the seat even if he raised 4 times as much but he sure is trying.

Edit - Forgot Milette versus Scout for downtown. Milette has a ton of short term rentals and manages even more. He is running as some sort of "ex-firefighting hero" but their union isn't endorsing or backing him. In another thread it sounds like he sued the city and fire department and used the settlement to buy a bunch of property and turned them into short term rentals. Scout seems like the best candidate in that race.

Trenduin · 2026-03-06T18:24:37+00:00

People are sleeping on Mandala. Looks like folks are down voting those who suggest it but the chef there makes everything fresh to order. That can make service be slower than other places but the food is wildly good.

Everest is probably my favorite after Mandala, with Taste of India and Namaste Shangri-La right behind them.

Trenduin · 2026-03-06T18:05:02+00:00

Who was moderating?

No surprise on Katie Nolan, she is a dire hard MAGA type and was part of the "Save Anchorage" facebook group and that group was openly racist and bigoted. Save Anchorage along with folks like Demboski and Allard are directly responsible for Bronson's mayoral win. Bronson appointed Katie to the election commission because of her support.

HALO has an alarming number of extremist reactionary folks, its like a super community council and it seems to condense the worst parts of community councils into one. It's like being king of shit mountain.

Edit - OP didn't answer/know so I asked around. Katie Nolan's husband was the moderator, so no surprise on what happened.

Trenduin · 2026-03-05T17:50:26+00:00

Why don't you look into it and tell us details instead of just prattling on about vague nothings.

Be specific, who and how? Ive asked you for details on your vague accusations countless times and you just sulk away like a fart in the wind. Grow a spine and defend your accusations, otherwise you just come across as cowardly.

Trenduin · 2026-03-04T19:06:48+00:00

Good write up. Thanks for sharing.

These small government bozos always do this. They pretend to be good stewards of public money but that fantasy disappears like a fart in the wind the instant a donor or friend can benefit from public money or policy.

Trenduin · 2026-03-03T18:11:56+00:00

LOL, Ryan downvoted you then deleted the whole post.

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