Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski is amongst the US Senators who voted for the proposed debate for the “Cut, Cap and Balance” agenda in the Senate earlier this week. After the measure was blocked on a 51-46 count, Murkowski commented that the Senate needs to discuss America’s budget and spending levels, suggesting the government to “cut [...]
Different departments and organizations of the State of Alaska were pleased to receive monetary grants from the government as announced by the Alaska Congressional Delegation this week. Amongst the list of grantors was the Department of the Army, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Department of [...]
Senator Lisa Murkowski was one of the officials who voted for complete Senate passage of the FY12 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill (H.R. 2055). With the approval of this bill, Murkowski hopes that the contracting process for critical future projects concerning and related to contractors, military and veterans in the US, especially to [...]
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation welcomes retired insurance executive and founder of Brady & Co. Inc. Carl Brady to their Board of Trustees. Brady is included amongst the newest board members appointed by Governor Sean Parnell to serve different agencies of Alaska. The governor announced these appointments on Jul6 6, 2011. A resident of Anchorage, [...]
In March and April 2011, we mentioned the drilling operation done by First Star Resources Inc. in its LMS flagship property in Alaska. Today, First Star has officially announced the results of their 2011 winter drilling program in LMS which is a property under Joint Venture with Corvus Gold Inc. This property covers a total of [...]
Three new employees were welcomed by First National Bank Alaska. Garrett Floyd and Matthew Huffman were appointed by the bank’s Board of Directors in the position of Home Loan Center officers while Katie Richardson will assume the work of a mortgage loan originator out of the Palmer Branch. Floyd, who is now the new [...]
The Pebble Mine expenditures have been approved by the Board of Directors of Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd, the company behind the Pebble Mine Project in Southwest Alaska. The total approved expenditure for 2011 is approximately US $91 million which will be focused for the completion of the Prefeasibility Study and permitting process. “Given its national [...]
A letter of intent was signed between the Q-Gold Resource and NYCON Resources Inc. to explore and develop the Farewell and Gagaryah platinum group nickel-copper (PGM-Ni-Cu) properties in the McGrath Mining District, approximately 260 kilometres northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. “We are very excited about the acquisition of the Farewell and Gagaryah properties in Alaska, not only because [...]
According to a report released by Pew Center only a few states, namely Alaska, Arizona, North Dakota, Utah and Washington were the only states which were able to make full contributions to their retirement system. The US’s retirement systems in general have decreased to a staggering amount of approximately $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009. [...]
Effective April 18, 2011 at exactly 1pm, Alaskan Governor Sean Parnell signed a proclamation calling the 1st special session of the 27th Alaska Legislature after invoking Article II Section 10 of the Alaska Constitution. This happened as soon as the governor received the resolution passed by the Alaska House of Representatives certifying their disagreement with [...]