Five Alaska governors discuss the income tax
Governors Keith Miller, Jay Hammond, Bill Sheffield, Steve Cowper and Walter Hickel were all sitting at the same table at the same time.
Lawrence D. Weiss
Where the heck is the card catalog?
I still get the feeling that most libraries I have visited the last twelve or fifteen years are, well, naked.
More seniors in Alaska and more in the workforce
“The number of Alaskans who are 65 or older is growing rapidly in all regions of the state. This shift to larger senior populations across Alaska will play an important role in shaping our communities and households in the coming years.”
"The case of the ignorant caregiver"
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Free apps help save and find your personal stuff
Have you wasted lots of time looking for stuff you know you have, but can’t find? Where is the manual for the washing machine? What the heck did I do with the business card from the guy I met on the plane?
What am I taking and what does it do?
She explains that your medical condition can be stabilized with a prescription drug she is going to give you. Maybe she said it was called “Overpricium,” or possibly “Bilgestuffex.”
Great news! Medicare is not going bankrupt
Who in Alaska is glad to hear that Medicare is not going bankrupt? Certainly the 84,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Alaska are glad to hear that Medicare is not going bankrupt.
Seniors facing unprecedented financial distress
It could be worse. In fact, it was worse. In the 1800s, if you were both poor and elderly, the chances are that your family was too poor to care for you.
A look at Alaskans aging behind bars
Prisons in the United States contain an ever growing number of aging men and women who cannot readily climb stairs, haul themselves to the top bunk, or walk long distances to meals or the pill line;
Marijuana: Legalization and risks for older users
Happily, toward the end of that period of my life I ended up with a college degree rather than a prison sentence.
Annual conference focuses on public health
It was a tsunami of trinkets, baubles and tchotchkes. Dozens of vendor tables were cheek by jowl along three walls of the cavernous Discovery Ballroom in Anchorage's Hotel Captain Cook.
Senior Benefits program poised to sunset
A person in obvious distress is standing beside the car waving you down. Do you stop to help? You do because this is the unwritten code of the Alaskan traveler. We stop to help people who need assistance.